Matsumura : A List ok the Japanese and For.mosan Cicadidae, with Description jq- 



11. Gen. Tanna Dist. 



18. Tanna japonensis Dist. 



Povipoitia japonmsis Dist., Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 102, t. 15, f. 22 

 (1892); Mats., Ann. Zool. Jap. Vol. II. Pt. i, p. 6, t. j, f. 5 a, b 

 (1898). 

 Lcptopsaltria japouica Horv., Term. Fiizet. Vol. 15, p. 136 (1892); 

 Mats., Thous. Ins. Jap. Vol. i, p. 210, n. 194, t. 17, f. 9 (1904). 

 Hab. — Honshu, Sliikoku, Kiushu (common). 

 Nom. Jap. — Higtirashi (Kana-kana). 



19. Tanna taipinensis Mats. 



Leptopsaltria taipinensis Mats., Ann. Zool. Jap. Vol. VI, Pt. 2, p. 95 

 (1907). 

 Hab. — Formosa (Taipin near Hoppo, not rare). 

 Nom . Jap . — Taipin-Jiignrashi. 



13. Gen. Semia n. g- 



Head (including eyes) scarcely narrower than the base of mesonotum ; ocelli 

 not quite twice the distance from eyes as from each other; eyes round, very highly 

 prominent; tempora behind eyes very large, nearly in the same height with the 

 eyes ; face conical and prominent ; pronotum with the lateral margins broadly 

 ampliated especially at the hind margin, in the middle incised, before the middle 

 with a small tooth ; mesonotum as long as head and pronotum taken together ; 

 abdomen very long, somewhat shorter than twice the length between head and 

 cruciform-elevation; genital segment of the male large, above and on the' sides 

 each with a large tooth-like projection ; the anterior femora distinctly and robustly 

 spined ; rostrum extending somewhat beyond opercula ; tympana covered, oper- 

 cula very short, not reaching to the base of abdomen, nearly touching each other 

 on the inner margin ; ventral segments in the % without tubercles ; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, the first apical cross-vein strongly oblique, namely running from 

 the second down to the first longitudinal vein ; the other characters nearly tlie 

 same as those of Tanna Dist. 



Genotype — Leptopsaltria ^vatanabci Mats. 



