Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 331 



side of these an elongate and angulate spot which reaches 

 the area of the cruciform elevation, black ; body beneath and 

 legs dark ochraceous, a little paler than above. Tegmina 

 and wings talc-like, with a greyish-brown tint, the venation 

 and costal membrane of tegmina ochraceous, tegmina un- 

 spotted. 



Head (including eyes) wider than anterior margin of 

 mesonotum ; head with the front moderately prominent ; 

 face broad and tumid, the transverse ridges very prominent ; 

 rostrum just passing the intermediate coxtB ; opercula longer 

 than broad, concolorous, not extending beyond the base of 

 abdomen, centrally obliquely divergent, their apices broadly 

 subacutely rounded. 



Long., excl. tegm., ($ 33 mm. ; exp. tegm. 97 ram. 



IJab. Borneo [Doherty). 



Cicada hoUvianaj sp. n. 



(^ . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum chocolate-brown ; 

 lateral areas of front, a transverse fascia between eyes, ante- 

 rior margin, and two linear obconical spots to mesonotum 

 black ; abdomen above castaneous ; tympanal coverings and 

 anterior abdominal segmental margins black ; a large creta- 

 ceous spot occupying the marginal areas of each segment ; 

 body berteath dull ochraceous, more or less cretaceously 

 tomentose ; tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation 

 brownish or fuscous, bases of both pale greenish ; costal 

 membrane of tegmina pale brownish to a little beyond apex 

 of radial area. 



Head (including eyes) considerably wider than base of 

 mesonotum, eyes very prominent ; rostrum passing the inter- 

 mediate cox^e ; opercula just reaching the base of second 

 abdominal segment, their inner margins at base contiguous 

 but not meeting, their posterior margins sinuately oblique, 

 their outer margins a little convex. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ 35 mm. j exp, tegm. 102 mm. 



Ilab, Bolivia : Chimali. 



Genus Ceyptotympana. 



Cryptotympana, StSl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) i. p. 013 (1861). 

 Type, C. pustulata, Fabr. 



Cryptotympana Holst% sp. n. 



^ . Body black ; a small spot on each lateral area of the 

 posterior pronotal margin, lateral abdominal segmental 



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