FAM. CICADID-fli 5 



posterior coxae; tegmina with the basal cell broad, irregular, with four, or sometimes five, angles; ulnar 

 veins widely separated at their bases; interior ulnar area somewhat broadened at apex. 



Type. — /. leopardina, Distant. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Ethiopian Region. 



a. Wings with base and inner apical margin dark fuscous or black. 



i. /. leopardina. East Africa. 



Pacilopsaltria leopardina, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1S81), p. 63o ; 

 Waterhouse. Aid Ident. Ins. Vol. 2. t. 12S. f. 2. 



2. /. horisontalis. Congo; Mashonaland. 



PlatypUura horizontals, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 35, p. 92. t. 4. 

 f. 20 (1890). 



3. /. siormsi. Tanganyika Region. 



Pcecilopsaltria stormsi, Distant. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg". Vol. 37, p. 76(1893). 



a . Wings with only the base fuscous or ochraceous. 



4. /. veligera. N. E. and E. Africa. 



Platypl ura : i 'igera, Jacobi, Zool. Jahrb. Vol. 19. p. 766. t. 44. f. 1 • 1904). 

 PlatypUura laticollis. ilelichar. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 54, p. 25 

 (1904). 



a". Wings nearly wholly black. 



5. /. limbnticollis. — PI. I , Figs. I a, b. W. Africa. 



Platypleura UmbalicoUis. Stal. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1), Vol. 3, p. 5yi 



i?63). 

 Oxypleura limbata. Walker, (nee Fabricius'. List. Horn. Vol. 1, p. 23 (i85o). 



2. Genus MUANSA, Distant 



Muansa, Distant, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist. (7). Vol. 14, p. 2g5 (1904). 



Characters. — Head (including eyes) slightly wider than base of mesonotum, not truncate 

 anteriorly, but frontally produced, about as long as pronotum (excluding its posterior margin); prono- 

 tum transverse, its posterior margin little more than half the length of vertex, the lateral margins 

 strongly and angulately produced, angular apices reaching to about middle of basal cell of tegmina: 

 mesonotum a little longer than pronotum ; anterior femora with one or more distinct spines, posterior 

 tibiae with a few slender spines on apical areas; metasternum elevated and centrally sulcated : tympana 

 practically covered; opercula short, broad, their apices more or less convexly rounded; rostrum reaching 

 the posterior coxse; tegmina with the basal cell broad, ulnar veins well separated at their bases. 



Type. — M. clypealis, Karsch. 



Geographical distribution of species. — The only species at present recorded is found in the 

 Cameroons and Congo. 



1. M. clypealis. — PI. I , Figs. 2b, c. Cameroons; Congo. 



Plalypleura clypealis. Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 35, p. g3, t. 3. f. 3 

 (1890). 



3. Genus SADAKA, Distant 



Sadaka. Distant, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist. (7). Vol. 14, p. 296 (1904). 



Characters. — Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotum, not truncate ante- 

 riorly, but frontalh' produced, about as long as pronotum (excluding its posterior margin); pronotum 



