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On examination of Walker^s type {Cicada nuhifiirca^ 

 Walk.,= Cicada apicalis, Kirby) I find that the wings have six 

 apical areas, and it should be included in the genus Abroma, 

 Stal. The species which I figured (supra) as T. nuhifurca, 

 and which so closely simulates that species, therefore requires 

 renaming. 



Panha africana^ sp. n. 



(J . Body testaceous ; front of head, pronotum (excluding 

 anterior and posterior margins and a central longitudinal 

 fascia), tympana, apex of abdomen (above and beneath), face, 

 legs, and opercula, ochraceous ; two anterior obconical spots 

 to mesonotuni, a central longitudinal line to face, and apices 

 of tibife and tarsi, dark testaceous ; eyes and lateral margins 

 to vertex of head piceous; tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 venation mostly fuscous ; tegmina with the costal membrane 

 ochraceous, claval area purplish ; wings with the margins of 

 the anal areas faintly fuscous. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 10 ; exp. tegm. 30 mm. 



Hah. West Africa : Fernando Po ( Conmdt, Paris Mus.). 



Genus Nelcynda. 

 Tibicen, subgen. Nelcynda, Stal, (Efv. Yet.-Ak. FGrh. 1870, p. 716. 

 Type, N. tener, Stal. 



Nelcynda madagascariensis, sp. n. 



?. Brownish ochraceous; head with the lateral margins 

 of front, a transverse line between eyes and traversing the 

 area of the ocelli, inner margins of eyes, and two small basal 

 spots, black ; pronotum with two central longitudinal spots 

 on anterior area, two central, elongate, oblique spots on poste- 

 rior area, some spots on lateral areas, and the lateral margins, 

 black ; mesonotum with two small, central, anterior, obconical 

 spots, a sublateral fascia on each side, two spots in front of 

 and a transverse spot on each side of cruciform elevation, 

 black ; two central fascite to face, which are united poste- 

 riorly, a spot between face and eyes, lateral marguis of 

 clypeus, streaks to femora, and apices of tibijB and rostrum, 

 piceous or black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation 

 fuscous; costal membrane to tegmina testaceous ; wings with 

 four apical areas. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? 10 mm. ; exp. tegm. 30 mm. 



llab. Madagascar : Fenerive {E. Perrotj Paris Mus.). 



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