BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 491. 



Entomologist Vol. xli, page 390, 1909, Kirkaldy substitutes the 

 name pinicola ior pinus of Uhler in this genus, but I have been 

 unable to discover that Uhler ever described such a species. It 

 is possible that Kirdaldy had in mind this preoccupied name 

 tinctus but we have no right to assume this to be the case. For 

 the present we must therefore consider pinicola a nomen nudum. 



Homoptera. 



Genus Cicada. 



Distant in 1904 (Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 7, vol. 14, 

 page 426) devides the old genus Cicada Linn, as recognized by 

 Latreille, Stal, etc., into two distinct genera, the larger of 

 which he names Rihana. He follows Latreille and others in 

 placing Cicada plebeja Scopoli as the type of the smaller, for 

 which he retains the name Cicada Linn., but plebeja was not 

 described until five years after the publication of the tenth 

 edition of the Systema Naturae and therefore it cannot be taken 

 as the type of this genus. In fact genus Cicada as restricted 

 by Distant in his catalogue of the Cicadidae does not contain a 

 single species included in the Linnean genus Cicada of 1758, 

 every species of that genus having been transferred to some 

 other and in most cases having been made the type of such 

 genus. In view of this it becomes necessary to make a new 

 selection and I now propose to name Cicada tibicen Linn, as 

 the type of the Linnean genus, thus making it strictly synony- 

 mus with Rihana Dist. and leaving it practically as recog- 

 nized by Stal. 



Catonia maculifrons n. sp. 



Near impunctata Fitch but with the elytral nervures white 

 and more distinct and the front with four narrow broken trans- 

 verse black bands. Length 5 mm. 



Vertex and base of the front narrower than in impunctata. Front 

 much widened below, the sides strongly arcuated, broadest just below the 

 antennae. Valve of the male a little broader than long, abruptly rounded at 

 tip; plates surpassing the valve by more than its length, obtusely triangular 

 at apex, considerably exceeded by the narrow tip of the pygofers. 



Color yellowish-white; depressed areas of the vertex and the sides of the 

 pronotum behind the eyes black. Front whitish with four narrow trans- 

 verse black bands, all broken by the white carinas, the basal three more ' 

 approximate and represented by mere spots ; tip of the clypeus' with two 

 minute brown spots- representing two larger black marks on the sides below : 



