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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CICADA FROM WEST 

 AFRICA. 



By W. L. Distant, i C\ \ 4 o.^ 



t' Musoda gigantea, sp. nov. 



(? . Head and pronotum pale testaceous, the latter with the 

 fissures darker, and the lateral and posterior margins ochraceous ; 

 eyes greyish-white ; mesonotum dark ochraceous with darker mott- 

 hngs and four obconical spots at anterior margin, the two central 

 spots largest ; abdomen castaneous, the posterior segmental margins, 

 a narrow central longitudinal fascia, and the anal area more or less 

 pale ochraceous ; body beneath pale ochraceous, the face and legs 

 darker and more pale testaceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 venation, costal membrane to tegmina, and narrow basal suffusion 

 to wings pale testaceous ; head with the front conically prominent, 

 anteriorly more darkly transversely striate ; vertex narrowly longitu- 

 dinally incised betw^een the ocelli ; face short, broad and convex, a 

 short, broad, central sulcation on its anterior area, its lateral areas 

 strongly transversely striate ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; opercula not passing base of abdomen, obliquely directed 

 inwardly, their apices rounded and widely separated ; anterior femora 

 shortly and finely toothed beneath on apical areas ; pronotum some- 

 what broadly, centrally, longitudinally sulcate, the fissures profound ; 

 abdomen broad, robust, above strongly, centrally ridged, the lateral 

 areas oblique, basal segment strongly, centrally, conically produced, 

 beneath obliquely depressed towards apex. 



Long. excl. tegm. S" , 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 88 millim. 



Hab. West Africa; Cameroons (Conradt). British Museum. 



This is the second but larger species of the genus yet described. 



A BUTTERFLY HUNT IN SOME PARTS OF 

 UNEXPLORED FRANCE. 



By H. Rowland -Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 60.) 

 (vi) Basses-Alpes. (b) Larche. 



To speak of Larche as "unexplored" is less inappropriate, per- 

 haps, than would appear in view of the recorded visits made in 

 past years by French entomologists. Donzel, in the " forties," 

 collected hereabouts ; but he seems not to have published the 

 results of his expedition as minutely as he has recorded the 

 lepidopterous fauna of Digne and the lower Basses-Alpes. It is 

 to Antoine Guillemot, to Bellier de la Chavignerie, and to Berce 

 that we owe the first detailed accounts of the numerous Lepi- 

 doptera met with at this point of the Italian frontier ; and after 



