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14. Geu. Cosmopsaltria St^l. 



22. Cosmopsaltria inermis Stal. 



- Cosmopsaltria incnnis Stal, Oefv. Vet-Akad. Forh. p. 708 (1870); 

 Dist., Mon. Orient. Cicad. p, 49, t, 6, f. 15 a, b (1890). 

 Mr. W. Distant had enumerated this species as living in Japan in the '^Genera 

 Insectoruin/' Family Cicadidae, p. 44 (191 3), but I think it may be a mistake. 

 This species was originally described from the Philippine Islands. 



23. Cosmopsaltria multivocalis n. sp. 



Head and thorax above, olivaceous; a transverse spot to front, a central 

 stripe to face, upper facial striations, the area of ocelli, a zigzag spot on vertex 

 at the inner sides of eyes, a lateral fascia at the front of eyes, black. Pronotum 

 with 2 central black lines, lateral spots and incisures, brownish ; mesonotum with 

 5 black stripes, of which the middle 3 united in the middle ; on the anterior 

 margin at the inner sides of the outer lateral stripes each with a small black spot ; 

 before cruciform-elevation with 2 black spots; opercula ochraceous, long, reaching 

 to the fifth abdominal segment, at the basal half on the inner sides nearly straight 

 and touching each other, then obliquely truncated, and at the apex conically 

 broadly pointed ; abdomen short, above black, each hind margin of the segments 

 olivaceous, which becoming broader towards the sides ; venter dark yellow and 

 nearly coloured as that of Mciiinina opalifera \Vk.; tegmina nearly twice as long 

 as the abdomen and thorax taken together, hyaline, on the first and second apical 

 cross-veins infuscated ; legs ochraceous, an indistinct stripe to femora, tibiae at the 

 apices and tarsi except bases, fuscous. 



Length — excl. tegm. 26 mm.; exp. tegm 81 mm. 



Hab. — Formosa (Hoppo) ; i % specimen collected by the late K. Watana- 

 be ; according to his information this insect is very difficult to catch and 

 produces three or four different sounds. 



15. Gen. Platylomia Stul. 



24. Platylomia spinosa F. 



Tcttigonia spinosa F., Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 266, n. 6 (1787). 

 Cosvwpsallria spinosa Dist, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 52, t. 4, f. 7 a, b 

 (1890). 



