THE ANNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SEEIES.] 



No. 10. OCTOBER 1908. 



XXXY.—Rhynchotal Notes.— XhY. By W. L. Distant. 



H O M O P T E R A. 



Fam. Cercopidae. 



Ethiopian Genera and Species. 



The Ethiopian Cercopidse are now becoming much better 

 known to entomologists. Since Walker first described many- 

 species and Stal laid the foundation of the study in his 

 ' Heraiptera Africana/ recent workers have paid considerable 

 attention to the family. Among these contributors may be 

 mentioned Schouteden, who described and enumerated a 

 number of species principally from the Congo region (1901), 

 and Jacobi, who did the same for the fauna of North-east 

 Africa (1904). Lethierry, Karsch, Melichar, and the present 

 writer have also, from time to time, added to the list. The 

 British Museum contained a considerable quantity of 

 unworked material, of which the collection made by Neave 

 in North-west Rhodesia is particularly important, and that 

 made by Escalera in the Cameroon district of West Africa 

 has filled many lacunae in the National Collection. 

 Ann. (& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. ii. 22 



