332 Mr. W. L. Distant o» Homoptcra. 



at the region of the eyes, the lateral and anterior margins 

 inoderately ridged ; face broader than long, transversely 

 carinate between eyes, and between this carination and the 

 anterior margin there is a central longitudinal carination, 

 lateral margins straight at inner areas of eyes and then 

 obliquely narrowing to clypeus, wliich is very strongly cen- 

 trally ridged ; pronotum fully twice as long as vertex, ante- 

 riorly convexly produced and centrally longitudinally carinate ; 

 mesonotum more than twice as long as pronotum, tricarinate, 

 the central carination straight, the lateral carinations curved 

 and meeting a little before anterior margin ; legs moderately 

 short and stout, the posterior tibiae with two strong spines ; 

 tegmina about one and a half times longer than broad, the 

 apical considerably longer than the inner margin, costal 

 margin a little convexly arched, apex rounded, basal cell 

 emitting from its upper outer angle two contiguous longi- 

 tudinal veins with a common origin, from the lower outer 

 angles tw^o other veins with a common origin and wliich 

 ■widely bifurcate and form a large cell, three transverse discal 

 series of large prominent cells, the central series shortest and 

 consisting of two cells only, the outer series longest ; wings 

 somewhat small, the veins longitudinal. 



This genus may be placed between Armacia and Alisca. 



Lugardia mimica, sp. n. 



(J . Head, face, clypeus, pronotum, mesonotum, and ster- 

 num black, margins of sternum and suffusions to abdomen 

 ochraceous ; legs black or piceous, annulations to the ante- 

 rior tibiae, and all the tarsi ochraceous ; tegmina black, with 

 a large, broad, discal, irregular, macular, hyaline fascia, 

 broadest on basal half of tegmen and upwardly narrowing to 

 costal margin near apex, costal margin irregularly marked 

 with small greyish-white spots and apical margin marked 

 with two clusters of larger hyaline spots, basal area sparsely 

 suffused with small linear ochraceous markings ; wings 

 hyaline, the apical area broadly suffused with fuscous. 



$ . All the black markings of body and tegmina replaced 

 by piceous brown. 



Long., excl. tegra., (^ 4, ? 5 mm. ; exp. tegm., c? 16, 

 $ 18 mm. 



Hah. South Africa; N'Gami Country {Col. F. D. Lugard, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Lugardia mi'mica, apart from structural characters, exhibits 

 a strong superficial resemblance to Ricanoptera mellerhorgi, 

 Stal, a well-known Oriental species. The difference in 



