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By an extraordinary error, this species has been identified by 

 most authors with Cicada ocellata, Eabricius (afterwards erro- 

 neously referred by him to Flata), which is identical with that of 

 De Gear, whose figure, which Fabricius quotes, probably repre- 

 sents a species of Platypleura allied to P. Kcempferi, Fabr. 

 Although there might be some doubt whether the description of 

 Fabricius really applies to De Greer's insect, yet Fabricius would 

 hardly hare applied the term " major " to P. stellaris when he 

 included his oceMata in the genus Cicada. 



*tPHTLLTPHANT'A ALBOPIiNCTATA, Sp. U. (Plate YI. fig. 5.) 



Exp. tegm. 30 millim. 



Green, tarsi ferruginous. Tegmina slightly shaded with white 

 beyond the middle, and with the centres of many of the cells 

 pale ; four conspicuous rows of whiter spots ; of these, two are 

 longitudinal, starting close together near the base, about the 

 centre of the wing, and then diverging as the tegmina broaden, 

 so as to maintain nearly uniform distances from the costa and 

 inner margin respectively, these extend to rather beyond the 

 middle of the tegmina ; the other two rows of whitish spots are 

 transverse, rising towards the tip of the costa, the innermost 

 running obliquely inwards and downwards for two thirds of the 

 width of the tegmina, and the other running nearly straight 

 downwards for a rather longer distance opposite the hind margin. 

 Under surface much whiter, with the rows of spots smaller, more 

 distinct, and further extended. Tegmina with the costa edged 

 with yellow, and the hind margin (more narrowly) with tawny ; 

 costa gradually arched, tip acute, rather more than rectangular ; 

 hind margin very slightly convex and concave to the very acute 

 and much projecting hinder angle ; inner margin with a strong 

 rounded projection near the base, and then gradually curved 

 outwards to the hinder angle ; wings pearly white, with a strong 

 projection on the costa near the base, rather more pointed than 

 that on the inner margin of the tegmina. 



Not closely allied to any species in the Museum. 



*tPHTLLTPHANTA ACUTIPENNIS, Sp. U. (Plate VI. fig. 6.) 



Flata acutipennis, Atkinson, MS. 

 Exp. tegm. 23-30 millim. 



Head, body, and tegmina green above ; head and pronotum 

 with a broad rusty longitudinal band, blackish on the median 



