ib HOMOPTEKA 



8. P. htcuba. E. Africa, Uganda. 



Pycna hicuba, Distant, Trans. lint. Soc. Lond. i 1004 |, p. (170, t. 29, i. 6a. b. 

 Platypleura graueri, Melichar. Act. Soc Ent. Boheman ;iqo8), p. 5y, f. 2. 

 g. P. neavei. \\asaland. 



Pycna neavei, Distant. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (Si, Vol. 9. p. 640 (19121. 



10. P. elliotti. I'.. E. Africa. 



Pycna elliotti. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17). Vol. 20, p. 425 1 1907) 



11. P.tanga. Germ. E. Africa, Beiia. 



Platypleura {Pycna) tanga. Strand, Ent. Rundsch. (1910). p. i58. Transvaal. 



12. P. itatalensis Natal. 



Pycna natalensis, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.i ioo5). p. 197.1. ii.f- 4a, 4. 

 i3. P. quanza. Angola, Abyssinia. 



Platypleura quanza. Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1S99), p. 476, t. 16, {. 3. 

 14. P. vitticollis. X. E. Africa, Hauasch. 



Platypleura vitticollis. Jacobi, Zool. Jahrb. Vol. 19. p. 767, t. 44, ft. 2, 2.1 

 119041. 



i5. P. antinorii. Abyssinia. 



Platypleura antinorii. Lethierry. Ann. Mils. Stor.Xat. Genova, Vol.16, p. 296 



(18801 ; Jacobi, Zool. Jahrb. Vol. 19, p. 765. f. A (1904). 

 16. P. beccarii. Somaliland. 



Platypleura beccarii. Lethierry. Ann. Mas. Stor. Xat.Gennva, Vol. 16, p. 297 



(1SS1 1. 



II. Genus UGADA, Distant 



Ugada Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 14, p. 290 (1904). 



Characters. — Head (including eyes) only about two thirds the width of base of mesonotum, 

 not truncate anteriorly, but obliquely deflected in front of eyes; pronotum transverse, the posterior 

 margin a little more than half the length of its vertex, the lateral margins strongly ampliated and medially 

 angulated, their apices reaching to middle 01 near end of basal cell of tegmina; mesonotum about as 

 long as pronotum; anterior femora tuberculately angulate near apex, posterior tibiae spined on apical 

 area ; metasternum elevated and centrally sulcate : tympana well covered ; opercula short and broad, their 

 apices more or less convexly rounded; rostrum reaching or passing the posterior coxae ; tegmina with 

 the costal membrane not prominently arched at base, only moderately dilated, basal cell moderatelv 

 short and broad; ulnar veins widely separated at their apices. 



Type. — U. limbata, Fabricius. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Ethiopian Region. 



A. Lateral angles to pronotum very prominent and strongly acute. 



1. U. limbata. W. Africa. 



Tettigonia limbata, Fabricius. Syst. Ent. p. 678, 3 (1775). 

 Cicada armata, Olivier, Enc. Meth. Vol. 5, p. 748 11790). 

 Cicada a/ricana, Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. p. i32 ; Hem. t. 20. ff. 3, 4 1 180SJ ; 

 Stoll, Ciy. f. 94. 



2. U. nittti. — PI. 2, Figs. I la, b, c. Taganyika. 



Ugada Xutti, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 14, p. 336 (19041. 



B. Lateral angles to pronotum moderately prominent and acute. 



3. U. grandicollis. \V. Africa. 



Cicada graneicollis (err. impr.), Germar, in Thon, Ent. Arch. Vol. 2 (21. 



p. I (iS3o). 

 Platypleura catncroni, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1876), p. 679. 

 Platypleura confusa, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 35. p. g5, t. 3. f. 11 



(1890); Stoll, Cig. f. 57. 



