5G4: Mr. W, L. Distant on llomoptera. 



(including eyes) being only half the width of base of 

 meson otum. 



I refrain, however, from giving fuller characters, as there 

 are apparently other genera to be included and a divisional 

 diagnosis must not be too narrow or exclusive. Thus the 

 Cicada humeralis, Walk. (Insect. Saund.^ Horn. p. 15, 1858), 

 evidently represents an allied but undescribcd genus to 

 Plauiilla, but the unique male type has its abdomen mutilated, 

 and is therefore not in a condition for generic description. 



Fam. FulgoridsB. 



Subfani. FvLQOTiiNM. 



Genus Pyeops, 



Tyrops, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 231 (1839) ; DIst. Tr. Ent. 



Soc. 1893, p. 443. 

 Zanna, Kirk. J. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bomb. xiv. p. 47 (1902). 



Pyrops Rendalli, sp. n. 



Allied to P. jnistulatus, Gerst., from which it differs by 

 the longer, more robust, and obliquely ascending head ; 

 colour of tegmina and wings as in Gerstaecker^'s species. 



I have had in my possession for the lust ten years a 

 mutilated specimen (wanting the abdomen and legs), given 

 me by Dr. P. Eendall, who captured it at Zomba; in 

 working over the genus I am now compelled to shortly 

 describe it as above. 



Exp. tegm. 72 mm. 



Ilah. B. C. Africa : Zomba {Dr. P. Rendall, Coll. Dist.). 



Length of head (P. piistnlatus, Gerst.) 7-7^ ram. ; apex 

 o£ cephalic process slightly depressed. 



Length of head (P. Eendalli, Dist.) 10 mm. ; apex of 

 cephalic process obliquely erect. 



Pyrops pulmimculus, sp. n. 



Head about twice longer than abdomen, somewhat shining 

 brown, obscurely mottled with olivaceous, more prominently 

 so beneath and on apex above, basal area rugose ; pro- 

 notum olivaceous, mottled with brown, rugose ; mesonotum 

 brownish ochraceous, rugosely punctate ; abdomen brownish 

 ochraceous, the apical a))pendage piceous ; legs and sternum 

 much shaded with olivaceous, legs with obscure and irregular 

 iiiscous markings; abdomen beneath greyish, thickly fuscously 

 punctate ; tegmina greyish, with closely reticulate sanguineous 

 and fuscous veins, not extending to the apical area, which is 



