S07ne luulescribid Cicadidie. 317 



extending from eyes' to apex of abdomen. Head with tlie 

 eyes brownish ochraceous and a small ochraceous spot at base. 

 l*ronotum with a central, elongate, ochraceous spot and with 

 the incisures brownish. Cruciform elevation at base of 

 mesonotum ochraceous, black at centre and near its apices. 

 Ajiiccs of femora and base of tibia; narrowly ochraceous. 

 Tympana, opcrcula, and three indistinct longitudinal series 

 of very small spots to abdomen (one central, the other two 

 lateral) dull greyish. 



Tegmina and wings hyaline, the tegmina slightly infus- 

 cate, the venation black dotted with ochraceous ; transverse 

 veins at the bases of apical areas broadly and darkly infus- 

 cated, and a series of dark blackish marginal spots at the 

 apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas; wings with an 

 angulated blackish fascia situate on the transverse veins at 

 the bases of the apical areas ; wings and tegmina narrowly 

 ochraceous at base. 



The rostrum just passes the intermediate coxte, the anterior 

 femora have two large and robust spines and a third, small 

 and indistinct, near apex; the head is broad and between the 

 eyes is moderately truncate. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ \d millim. ; exp. tegm. 45 millim. 



Hab. 8. Africa {Mansel Weale). 



This species is allied to T. [Quintilia) vitripennis^ Karsch, 

 from which it is distinguished by the dark central fascia to 

 the wings; in general appearance it somewhat resembles the 

 Indian species T. subvittata, Walk. 



Masupha, gen. nov. 



Allied to Cicadatra. This genus is to be recognized prin- 

 cipally by the tegmina, in which the basal cell is large, 

 broader at l)ase than at apex, and not twice longer than its 

 extreme breadth ; tiie costal margin of the radial area is more 

 or less curved and gibbous, and the inner ulnar area is dis- 

 tinctly broader at base than at apex. 



Masupha ampliata^ sp. n. 



Body above blackish or very dark castaneous ; head and 

 thorax moderately pilose, more thickly so beneath than above. 

 Head with a large ochraceous spot on the anterior margins 

 of vertex adjoining front ; eyes pale fuscous. Pronotum with 

 the margins and a central longitudinal fascia ochraceous, the 

 incisures brownish. Mesonotum with two central, linear, 

 ochraceous fascia?, which are thickened posteriorly, the lateral 



