200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



their bases redder, their apices blacker ; terminal line reddish ochre- 

 ous ; fringe olivaceous, at base pale ochreous, dark-spotted opposite 

 veins. Hind wing similar, discal spot small. Under side similar, 

 but with distal border mostly pale, only purplish in anterior half of 

 fore wing and proximal part of anterior half of hind wing, the sub- 

 terminal line and pyramids w'anting. 



Selukwe, November, 1911 ; type in coll. L. B. Prout. A 

 worn female with the border more reddish (same time and place) 

 is probably also referable here. Near Chikawa, Lower Shire 

 Valley, Nyassaland, 600 ft., April 12th, 1910 (S. A. Neave), 

 co-type (male) in coll. Brit. Mus. ; also a female, slightly larger 

 and duller, from Blantyre, Nyassaland (J. E. S. Old), in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



In coloration, &c., this species suggests a small edition of 

 transvisaria, Guen., except for the dark irroration and the shape 

 of the distal borders. 



Zamarada aclea, n. sp. 

 5 , 26-27 mm. Very like the forms of translucida, Moore, with 

 the narrowest border and the purple-brown parts lightest and most 

 reddish, but differing as follows : 13ody and border of wings slightly 

 more reddish still, the latter perhaps slightly narrower ; the green 

 ground colour lighter, a small red basal patch present on fore wing ; 

 the minute dark discal dots obsolete, the entire green area, on the 

 other hand, faintly dotted and strigulated with grey ; under side 

 with the border bicoloured, its proximal part in apical half of both 

 wings and towards tornus of fore wing being dark (nearly as in 

 translucida), the rest much lighter and redder, fading off still further 

 towards tornus of hind wing. 



Selukwe, November, 1911 (type), and December, 1911 (co- 

 type) ; both in coll. L. B. Prout. 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW ETHIOPIAN CICADA. 



By W. L. Distant. \'\\^\ 



Platypleura liberiana, sp. n. 

 Body and legs pale ochraceous ; vertex of head with a spot at 

 each anterior angle, a waved transverse fascia widened at area of 

 ocelli, and three small irregular spots at base near each eye, fuscous 

 or black ; pronotum with the subanterior margin (medially broken), 

 two small central spots near base, and the outermost fissures, black ; 

 mesonotum with four obconical spots — the two central spots smallest 

 — and a spot at each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation, 

 black ; abdomen above, with the exception of central longitudinal 

 disk, pale castaneous ; tegmina opaque, dull greyish with darker 

 shadings, the venation, costal membrane, and basal area pale ochra- 

 ceous ; wings dark ochraceous, opaque, shadings at the bases and 

 apices of the apical areas, along the inner longitudinal veins, and 



