5.24 Mr. W. L. Distant on liomoptera. 



Tettigoniella espriella, sp. ii. 



Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum black ; vertex with an 

 irregular and medially interrupted transverse greyish faseia 

 between tlie eyes and enclosing the ocelli ; pronotura with a 

 transverse ochraceous fascia a little behind the middle; head 

 beneath and sternum black (abdonuni mutilated in type), 

 anterior lateral margins of face, and the legs pale stramineous; 

 tarsi piceous ; tegmina blackish, ciaval area for the greater 

 part ochraceous, a subcostal line not extending to apical 

 area, inner ciaval margin, and two short linear fascise on 

 posterior disk greenish ochraceous ; vertex about as long as 

 breadth between eyes, broadly rounded in front ; face cen- 

 trally longitudinally flattened, laterally transversely striate. 



Vur. Vertex with a continuous greyish fascia between the 

 eyes, the anterior margins also greyish; face with ochra- 

 ceous suffusions. 



Long., incl. tegra., 8j mm. 



Hub. Peru {Uosenberg, Brit. Mus.). 



Tettigoniella areolata. 



Tetiuionia areolata^ Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) i. p. 355, t. xi. fig. 4 



(J 858). 

 Tettifjonia suavipcnnis, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 196 (1858). 



Hub. Central America. 



Tettigoniella splendida. 



Cicada .splendida, Fabr. Syst. Khyng. p. 68. 29 (1803). 



Tettigonia splendida, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) ii. p. 351, t. xi. 



fig. 15 (1854). 

 Tettigonia leucospila, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 217 (1858). 



Tettigoniella decorata. 



Tettigonia decorata, Walk. List Horn. iii. p. 761 (1851). 

 Tettigonia waUieria, Sign, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) i. p. 362 (1853), 

 nee fig. 



Signoret proposed the name wnlkeri for this species because 

 he considered it preoccupied by decora, Fabr. The Cicada 

 decora, Fabr., has been shown by Stal (Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 83) 

 to belong to the genus Catliscarta, and therefore cannot 

 invalidate Walker^s specific cognomen. Signoret himself 

 had previously (Rev. Mag, Zool. 1850, p. 285) described a 

 species as Dilobopterus decoratus, which he subsequently 

 included in Tettigonia. Dilobopterus being recognised as a 

 distinct genus, Signoret's species (which = dispur, Germ.) 

 does not apply. 



Tettigoniella spinola. 



Tettigonia spinoJm, Sign, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) i. p. 365, t. xii. fig. 3 



(1853), 

 Tettigonia discrepans, Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 212 (1858), 



