34 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



at base and apex ; body beneath paler castaneous tlian above ; 

 sternum, opercula, and legs ochraceous ; a broad, central, 

 longitudinal fascia to face and a central fascia to abdomen, 

 black; tegminaand wingshyaline, venation fuscous ; tegmina 

 with the costal membrane and claval area olivaceous ; wings 

 with the inner anal area dark olivaceous ; abdomen above 

 with a greyish pilose spot on each lateral area of the first and 

 second segments. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 19 mm. ; exp. tegm. 58 mm. 



Hab. Madagascar (/S'i'A'om). 



Genus Taphura. 

 Taphura, StSl, Rio Jan. Hem. ii. p. 20 (1858). 

 Type, T. misella, Stal [Cicada). 



Genus LiGYMOLPA. 

 LigymoliM, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxv. pp. 112 & 122 (1890). 

 Type, L. madegassa, Karsch. 



Genus AuTA. 

 Aula, Dist. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2-'') xvii. p. 381 (1897). 

 Type, A. insigm's, Dist. 



Panka, gen. nov. 



Head (including eyes) about as wide or a little wider than 

 base of mesonotum, its length not equal to breadth between 

 the inner margins of eyes; pronotum longer than head, its 

 lateral margins nearly straiglit, its posterior lateral angles 

 subdentately produced ; abdomen in female a little longer 

 than space between apex of head and base of cruciform eleva- 

 tion ; anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline; tegmina with eight, wings with five apical 

 areas. 



Type, P. simulata, Dist. 



The above generic description is based on two female 

 specimens ; the venation of the wings is a primary character; 

 the characters of tlie opercula and other abdominal structures 

 can only be detailed when male specimens are examined. 



Panka simulata, sp. n. 



Tihicen mtbifurca, Dist. (excl. syn.) Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 1.31, tab. xiv. 

 iig, 24»,6(1892). 



Hah. Ceylon. 



