CO Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



shorter than mesoiiotum, its lateral 

 margins moderately dentate. 

 //. Opercula elongate, broad, nearly meet- 

 ing at their inner margins, sinuate 

 at their basal areas. 

 m. Anal abdominal segment in (^ api- 

 cally acutely dentate * or with a 

 broad obtuse pi'ocess f on each side. Diceroj^yga. 

 III. Opercula obliquely divergent, some- 

 times A'ery short. 

 t)im. Anal abdominal segment in S 



apically unarmed Meimuna. 



nil. Opercula short and transverse, 



n. Head (including eyes) about as wide 

 as base of mesonotum, its length 

 about or nearlyequal to space be- 

 tween eyes. 

 0. Abdomen in ^ longer than space 

 between apex of head and base of 

 cruciform elevation. 

 p. Tympanal coverings of normal 



shape and size Pomponia. 



pp. Tympanal coverings very large, 



nearly meeting inwardly .... DuJciima. 

 00. Abdomen in cJ short, about as long 

 as space between apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation. 

 ppp. Tympanal coverings of nor- 

 mal shape and size Aola. 



pppp. Tympanal coverings very glo- 

 bose and projecting beyond the 

 lateral margins of the abdomen. Oncotympana. 

 nn. Head (including eyes) considerably 

 wider than base of mesonotum ; ab- 

 domen long ; length of head equal 

 to space between eyes Champaka. 



Genus Leptopsaltria. 



Leptopsaltria, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 5 (18GG); Berl. ent. Zeit.x. p. 170 

 (1866). 



Type, L. tuherosa, Sign. [Cicada). 



PuRANA, gen. nov. 



Head (including eyes) as wide as base of mesonotum and 

 as long as space between eyes; face prominent and convex, 

 its base almost at right angles lo the anterior lateral angles 

 of vertex ; pronotum narrowed anteriorly, its lateral margins 

 angulated or tootlied ; mesonotum much longer than pro- 

 notum ; abdomen moderately conical above, gradually attenu- 

 ated posteriorly, in male considerably longer than the space 



* As in type, D. ohtecta, Fabr. 

 t As in 1j. chlorogaster, Boisd. 



