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Order I. CICADINA, Burm. 



Fam. 1. STRIDULANTIA, Burm. 



About five hundred species of this family have been described, 

 and they are divided into twenty-two genera. Of these several are limited 

 in their geographical range ; 'thus Polyneura, Pycna, Tacua, Tosena, 

 inhabit Hindostan and the neighbouring isles; Platypleura and Oxypleura 

 extend from West and South Africa to Hindostan, Java and Amboina ; 

 Zammara is peculiar to America; Tetligades only inhabits Chili ; Thopba, 

 'Mtigarcta and Cystosoma are Australian ; the range of Dundubia begins 

 in hiB Himalaya, and various species inhabit many of the islands between 

 Hindostan and the open Pacific Ocean ; Tettigomyia is confined to South 

 Africa";: Mogannia, Huechys and Gaaana extend from Hindostan to Java 

 and China, and Huechys also inhabits Australia. 



Genus PLATYPLEURA, Amyot. 

 Platypleuba arcuata. 



Fulva, P. ocellatse similis ; caput supra nigricans, litura anlica nigra ; 

 prothorax vitta postice dilatata maculisque quatuor nigris ; mesotho- 

 4^ rax vittis quatuor furcatis nigris ; abdomen fasciis interruptis apice- 



que nigris ; alec anticmfulvcc, fusco nebulosce, liluris duabus coslalibus 

 pallidis, maculis marginalibus fuscis ; posticce fusccc, vittis tribus, 

 strigis nonnullis lanceolatis exterioribus slrigaque postica luteis. 



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