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Ov vjidescrileJ Species o/ CicaclidiB. 



greatest brcadtli, tlie ulnar areas very loiif^;, either half as 

 1(1112^ aj^ain or twice as long as a])ical areas, the lower apical 

 area placed longitudinally, basal coll about twice as long as 

 broad ; wings with six apical areas. 



Allied to Mtlampsnltn, but differing by the much greater 

 lenirth of the ulnar areas. 



Type, K. umhrimorgo^ "Walk. [CicaJa). 



BiRRlMA, gen. nov. 



(J. Head (including eyes) a little wider than pronotum, 

 front flattened, shorter than vertex, margins of both almost 

 continuous, ocelli on disk, front ocelhis near anterior mariiin 

 of vertex ; face a little depressed at base, oidy moderately 

 prominent, centrally sulcate and stronjjly transversely ridged, 

 about as broad as space between it and eyes ; rostrum about 

 reaching the posterior coxae ; pronotum shorter than meso- 

 notum, its lateral margins nearly straight, its posterior angles 

 distinctly prominently ])roduced ; mesonotum convex, cruci- 

 form elevation with the area defined by its produced angles 

 broader than long; abdomen longer than space between apex 

 of head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely 

 exposed; opercula globose, elevated, laterally extending a 

 little beyond margin of abdomen, at sides exposing the 

 cavities, not extending beyond base of abdomen ; tegmina 

 about three times as long as greatest breadth, basal cell 

 narrower at apex than at base, about twice as long as broad, 

 bases of the upper vein to lower ulnar area and the lower 

 vein to radial area fused, the first emitted at some distance 

 flora the base of the second, apical areas eight, a short trans- 

 verse vein near apex of clavus ; wings with six apical areas ; 

 {.nterior femora with three slender spines, the apical one 

 shortest, posterior tibia with some long slender spinules. 



By the shape of the opercula this genus has considerable 

 affinity to Gi/mnofi/mpana,HtsL\ (Chlorocystaria), but in other 

 characters, especially by the venation of the tegmina, it 

 belongs to the division Melampsaltaria. 



It is probable that other species, of which I have seen 

 only female examples, now included in the genus Melampsalta 

 may belong here. 



Birrima Montrouzieri, sp. n. 



^ . Body piceous ; front of head and anterior lateral 

 n)argins of vertex castaneous ; ocelli shining testaceous; eyes 

 pale olivaceous speckled with black; pronotum with two central 



