206 Mr. W, L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



costal membrane ocliraceous ; wings pale hyaline, unspotted; 

 head (including eyes) a little narrower than base of meso- 

 notuni ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; transverse 

 vein at base of second apical area to tegraina oblique. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 19, ? 16 mm,; exp. tegm., S 39, 

 ? 37 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Coll. Dist.) ; Natal (Coll. DIst.). 



This species has a wonderful resemblance to Melampsalta 

 leucoptera, Germ. 



Genus Psilotympana. 

 Psilotympana, StEl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) i. p. 620 (1861). 

 Type, P. signifera. Germ. [Cicada). 



Abagazara, gen. nov. 



<? . Head considerably longer than pronotum, front longly 

 and broadly projecting, longer than vertex, and broader than 

 the length of the lateral margins of vertex, which are a little 

 discontinuous; ocelli a little nearer to each other than to 

 eyes ; pronotum narrow, transverse, the posterior angles 

 ■widely outwardly ampliate ; mesonotura (including cruciform 

 elevation) shorter than head and pronotum together ; abdomen 

 about as long as space between apex of head and base of 

 cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; posterior 

 tibise spined on each side; anterior femora spined beneath ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the first nearly three times longer 

 than greatest breadth, and witli eight apical areas; wings 

 with six apical areas. 



Type, A, hicolorata, Dist. {Callipsaltrid). 



DiExMENiA, gen. nov. 



Head with the front strongly convexly projecting, narrower 

 than length of the vertical margins, which are convex, margins 

 of both discontinuous, almost at riglit angles to each other, 

 ocelli a little nearer to each other than to eyes, head (including 

 eyes) a little narrower than base of mesonotum ; pronotum 

 about as long as head, lateral margins a little laminate and 

 slightly convex, posterior angles spatulately produced ; me.so- 

 notum (including cruciform elevation) almost as long as 

 pronotum and head together ; abdomen robust, centrally 

 ridged above, beneath with the disk convex, the marginal 

 areas recurved, longer than space between apex of head and 

 base of crucitorm elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; 

 opercula in male tians verse, about reaching base of first 



