12 HOMOPTERA 



62. P. divisa. S. Africa. 



Cicada divisa, Germai in Silbermann, Rev. Ent. Vol. 2, p. 80, I 23 [834). 



63. P. makaga. igo. 



Platypleura makaga, Distant. Trans. Ent.Soc.Loiul. | m 14 i,p.668,t.29, f. fi.' . 



64. P. liberiana. Liberia. 



Platypleura liberiana, Distant, Entomologist 119U . p. 



65. P. phtmosa. S. Africa. 



Cicada plumosa. Germar in Silbermann, Rev. Ent. Vol. 2. p. Si. t. 26(1834'. 

 Platypleura hirtipennis, var. a, Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 16 I 1866;. 

 Platypleura ciliaris, Butler (part.) Cist. Ent. Vol. 1, p. iS5 (1874). 



66. P. Iiirta. Transvaal. 



Platypleura hirta, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 35, p. 100, t. 4, t. 16 

 (iSqc. 



67. P. wahlbcrgi. S. Attica. 



Platypleura wahlbergi, Stal. Oefv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. i885 . p. Sg. 



68. P. albigera. S. Africa. 



Platypleura albigera, Walker. List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 12 (i85o). 

 Platypleura membranacca, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 35. p. 92, t. 3. 

 f. 10 (1890). 



69. P. haglundi. S. Africa. 



Platypleura Haglundi, Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4. p. 14(1866); Dist. Ins.Transv. 

 Vol. 1, p. 173. t. 17. f. 6 (1906). 



70. P. signifera. S. Africa, Transvaal 



Platypleura signifera, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p.7(i85o); Waterh. Aid 

 Ident. Ins. Vol. 2, t. i52, f. 5. 



71. P. decora. S. Africa. 



Cicada decora, Germar in Silbermann, Rev. Ent. Vol. 2. ]>. 79, t. 24 ; ; 



excl. syn. 

 Platypleura deusta, Stal (part.) Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 17 18661. 

 Platypleura absimilis, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 19, p. 128(1897). 



72. P. deusta. S. Africa. 



Tettigouia deusta, Thunberg, Hem. Rostr. Cap. Vol. 1. p. 6 1 1822). 

 Platypleura deusta, Distant, Ins. Transv. Vol. 1, p. 174, t. 17. f. 11 1 19061. 



The following species I have not seen. 



73. P. 'iteppiri. North Australia. 



Platypleura tepperi, Godding & Eroggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales, 

 p. 568. t. 18, f. 5a (1904). 



74. P. carlinii. Somaliland. 



Platypleura tesiacea, Carlini. Ann. Mus. Stor. Xat. Genova (2), Vol. 12, 



p. 537 '1892) (nom. prceocc. Walker). 

 Platypleura carlinii, Distant, n. nom. Syn. Cat. Horn. Pt. 1, Cicad. p. 17 



(1906). 



7. Genus YANGA, Distant 



Yanga. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 14, p. 297 (1904). 



Characters. — Head (including eyes) as wide or a little wider than base of mesonotum, not 

 truncate anteriorly, but with the lateral margins of the vertex a little oblique on each side, the front 

 produced, about as long as the pronotum (excluding its posterior margin); pronotum transverse, its 

 posterior margin about half the length of vertex, the lateral margins strongly and angulately produced 

 on each side, their apices extending to a little more than the base of basal cell of tegmina; mesonotum 

 a little longer than pronotum; anterior femora with a basal and subapical spinous tubercle; posterior 

 tibiae with a few spines on apical area; metasternum elevated and centrally sulcate; tympanal coverings 



