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Var. a. Head unspotted ; apices of femora piceous. 



Var. b. Resembling Var. a., but with the corium and 

 posterior lobe of pronotum without piceous markings, 

 excepting the oblique discal line to corium. 



HOMOPTERA. 

 Family CICADIM]. 

 Poecilopsaltria hova, sp. n. (Plate XVI, fig. 2, a. b.) 

 (£. Head and thorax above olivaceous-green. Head with the 

 front transversely striated with black and containing two anterior 

 pale greenish spots ; vertex with the area of the ocelli, from which 

 a curved fascia extends to eyes, a spot at anterior angles, and four 

 small basal spots — those near eyes the largest, black. Pronotum 

 with a spot on anterior margin, two elongate discal spots, two small 

 rounded spots at centre of inner anterior margin, and the oblique 

 incisures, black ; mesonotum with two central dentate spots on 

 anterior margin, followed by both a small and elongate spot on each 

 side, a small central triangular spot, and a spot at each of the anterior 

 angles of the cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen above piceous very 

 thickly greyishly pilose, the segmental margins and a basal central 

 fascia olivaceous. Body beneath pale greenish-ochraceous ; base and 

 apex of face, basal spots and subapical annulations to femora, tarsi, 

 apex of rostrum, and abdominal segmental margins black ; opercula 

 piceous their apical margins narrowly luteous. 



Tegmina with the basal half pale greenish, the costal membrane, 

 venation, and basal cell ochraceous ; apical half-grey semi-hyaline, 

 irregularly spotted with fuscous, the venation ochraceous. Wings 

 black, greyishly pilose at base ; apical and posterior margins white ; 

 apical area greyish -brown with a white streak between the veins 

 which are black and which at their apices have a submarginal series 

 of black margined white spots. 



Face strongly transversely striated with a profound central sulca- 

 tion ; rostrum just passing the posterior coxse ; opercula overlap- 

 ping at centre, obliquely rounded at apices ; body very broad and 

 robust. 



Long. excl. tegm. 40 millim. Exp. tegm. 116 millim. 



Hal. Madagascar. 



The nearest ally to this beautiful species is P. brancsiki, 

 Dist. 



Cicada sylvara, sp. n. (Plate XVI, fig. 1 $, a. b. <J.) 



£ . Head pale olivaceous-green ; the front castaneous, ochraceous 

 at base with a central piceous spot ; vertex with the central area 



