THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 110. FEBRUARY 1897. 



XI. — On a Collection of Homoptera made in Southern Africa. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



During a recent sojourn in the Transvaal and other parts of 

 South Africa, as a result of ray own collecting and the kind 

 assistance of friends in more remote localities, I acquired a 

 considerable number of different species belonging to the 

 Cicadidae and other Homoptera. From Mr. Guy Marshall, in 

 Mashunaland, I received nine species of the first, captured 

 within a radius of eight square miles near Gadzima, on 

 the Middle Umfuli River. As no species have hitherto been 

 recorded from tliis portion of Rhodesia, I give an enumeration 

 of the same : — 



Fam. Cicadidae. 



PcecUopsallria leopardina, Dist. Platypleura centralis, sp. n. 



• horizontalis, Karsch. brevis, Walk. 



bombifrouK, Karsch. Tibicen nigricans, StSl. 



Marshalli, sp. n. Monomatapa insignis, gen. et sp. n. 



Platypleura Rutherfordi, Dist. 



It is interesting to note that Platypleura Eutherfordi, which 

 I originally received and described from th.e Calabar district 

 of Western Africa, extends its range across the continent to 

 Mashunaland. 



Further north from Nyassaland, at Zomba and Fort 

 Johnston, I received from my friend Dr. Percy Rendall four 



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