554 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



SuLfam. CicADiA^^. 



POLYNEURARIA. 



Plotypleura attenuata, sp. n. 



Head and thorax above brownish ochraceous, head with the 

 anterior margins of front and the lateral margins of vertex 

 luteous ; base of front, a spot near anterior angle of verfex, 

 and a transverse fascia between the eyes black ; pronotura 

 with a central lonoitndinal fascia (not extending through 

 posterior margin), a longitudinal fasciate spot on each side of 

 disk, the incisures, and a small marginal spot black ; meso- 

 notum darker in hue, with four obconical spots, of which the 

 two central ones are very short, two rounded spots in front of 

 a spot on each anterior angle of 

 abdomen with the basal segmental areas black, 

 their apical areas ochraceous ; body beneath piceous, clothed 

 more or less with very short greyish hairs; a somewhat 

 macular transverse fascia between eyes at base of face, apices 

 of anterior and intermediate femora, a longitudinal spot on 

 each side of anterior femora, and the lateral and posterior 

 margins of opercula, ochraceous ; a spot on each side of 

 anterior femora near their apices and a longitudinal fascia 

 beneath them, central longitudinal sulcation to face, and a 

 suffusion between face and eyes, and the opercula (excluding 

 margins), black ; abdomen beneath piceous, the posterior 

 segmental margins ochraceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 the venation fuscous or fusions brown ; tegmina with the 

 costal membrane brownish ochraceous, with a spot at about 

 one third from its base and tlie whole basal cell piceous ; 

 claval area brownish, thickly greyishly pilose, and with 

 some scattered greyish hairs on the basal half of tegmina; 

 transverse veins at bases of apical areas more or less infus- 

 cated and submarginal fuscous spots on most of the longitu- 

 dinal veins to apical areas ; wings with the extreme base pale 

 ochraceous, margins of anal area pale fuscous where the veins 

 are piceous. 



Long., excl. tegm., c? 19 mm.; cxp. tegm. 66 mm. 



Ilab. N. Nigeria ; Zunguru {A. L. de M. Mt/nn, Brit. 

 Mus.). 



The lateral margins of the pronotum are angularly 

 developed, and extend to about halt the length of basal cell ; 

 the whole body above is more or less greyishly pilose, and 

 the abdomen in male is short and attenuated posteriorly ; the 

 opercula do not quite meet inwardly, and their lateral and 



