some undcscriltd Cicadidce. 32.") 



llah. South Africa, Stcllonboscli. Cape Town Mus. and 

 Coll. Dist. 



A very distinct South-AtVican species, defined by the 

 broad and rounded tegniina, ap[)roaching in this respect the 

 peculiar tacies of some Australian species. 



Synonymical Xotes. 



The following pynonymy refers to two South-African 

 .•sjiecii'S, ot wliic-h I was alile during- the lifttime of my late 

 friend Dr. Signoret to compare the types in his collection 

 made by the late Dr. Sial, with those of Mr. Walker in the 

 British ]\ruseum : — 



Tibicen {^Quintilia) pritmtiva. 



Cicada primifkyf, "Walk. List ITom. i. p. 218. n. 171 (ISoO). 

 Tibicen prhnifiva, Stal, (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 18152, p. 48-5. 

 Tibicen (QuintiUa) hcemadnns, StSl, Ilem. Afr. iv. p. 40. n. 18 (1866). 

 Quintilin hcematina, Karsch, Bed. ent. Zeitschr. xxxv. p. 121. n. 52 

 (1890). 



Tihicen {QuintiUa) monilifera. 



Cicada motiilifera, W alk. List Horn. i. p. 219. n. 172 (1850). 



Tibicen monilifera, Stal, (Elv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 485. 



Tibicen {Quin(ilia) 7naculinervis, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 33. n. 8 (1866).' 



In the 'Journal of the Linnean Society' (Zoology), 

 vol. xxiv. pp. 128-131 (1891), Mr. Kirby has described as 

 new four species of Cicadida^ from Ceylon. These descrip- 

 tions may be interpreted as follows : — 



Dunduhia ynixfa, Kirby, I. c. p. 12S,= Cicada viridis, Fabr. 

 Syst. Khyng. p. 39. n. 25 (1803), excl. syn. 



Fom2>onia Greeni, Kirby, I. c. p. 129, = Pomponia Ranson- 

 7ieti, Dist. Ann. <&. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. 

 p. 372 (1888). 



Fomponia elegans, Kirbv, I.e. p. V60,'=Terpnonia'^ psecas, 

 Walk. List Horn', i. p. Go. n. 28 (1850). 



Cicada apicalis, Kirby, I. c. p. \^\ ,■= Tihicen nuhifurca. 

 Walk. List Hom., Suppl. p. 28 (1858). 



• Terpnosia, gen. nov. Closely allied to Pomponia, but with the tym- 

 pana almost entireh uncovered, thus locating the genus in the subfam, 

 Tibiceninae. (More fully described ai:d tigiu-ed in my forthcoming part 

 of the ' Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae.') 



