new Species of Cicndidte. 77 



Long., excl. tegm., <$ , 27 mm. ; exp. tegm. 80 mm. 



Hub. Belgian Congo, Sankisia (Dr. Bequaert, Mus. 

 Congo Beige). 



Allied to /. horizontalis, Karsch, from which it differs by 

 the less produced and less angulate lateral pronotal margins, 

 the narrower, more elongate, and attenuate tegmiua, &c. 



Mum a sudancnsis, sp. n. 



Head with the front and vertex piceous, the basal margin 

 of the latter ochraceous ; pronotum ochraceous, a central 

 longitudinal fascia, which is widened at base and apex, and 

 the fissures piceous or black ; mesonotum ochraceous, with 

 four obconical spots on anterior margin, of which the two 

 central ones are moderate in size and the outermost ones 

 much the longest, the area in front of the cruciform elevation 

 and the apical angles of the latter piceous or black ; abdomen 

 above pale fuscous, with a central longitudinal testaceous 

 fascia and the extreme posterior segmental margins ochra- 

 ceous, abdomen beneath without the central fascia ; sternum, 

 legs, and opercula ochraceous ; face ochraceous, its anterior 

 area and a central longitudinal fascia black and with two 

 contiguous ochraceous spots at anterior margin ; rostrum 

 reaching the abdominal margin, its apex black ; tegmina 

 fuscous brown, about apical half of radial area, the centres 

 of two upper ulnar areas and spots to remaining ulnar areas, 

 an oblique macular fascia crossing apical areas, and spots on 

 apical margin greyish white, semiopaque, and talc-like; wings 

 ochraceous, their apical and posterior margins fuscous, the 

 membrane hyaline ; head (including eyes) about as wide as 

 base of mesonotum, not frontally produced, more or less 

 truncate ; outer and posterior membranal margin to wings 

 broad, about one-third their length ; opercula in male 

 reaching base of abdomen, their margins rounded, their inner 

 angles not meeting but distinctly separate. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ , 18 mm. ; exp. tegm. 50 mm. 



Hub. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ; Benemana River, Yei to 

 Meredi, Lado District (Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to M. basimacula, Walk., but with the opercula 

 distinctly separated, not overlapping as in Walker's species; 

 pattern of tegmina also different. 



Platypleura schoutedeni, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum ochraceous, with black 

 markings ; head with two transverse fasciae, one above the 

 insertions of the anteniue, the other between the upper 



