8 ORIENTAL CICADIDJE. 



5. PcEcilopsaltria cervina. (Tab. V., fig. 12, a, h.) 



Platyplcura cermin, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 16, n. 22 (1850); Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 172; Atkins. 



J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 217, n. 16 (1885) ; ibid. Iv. p. 149, n. 1 (1886). 

 Platijpleura straminea. Walk. List Horn. i. p. 17, n. 23 (1850). 

 Plutypleiiia (O.ri/pleiini) ccrrimi, Butl. Cist. Ent. vol. i. p. 198, n. 52 (1874). 



The following is Walker's description of this species : — 



" $ . Body pale buff : head nearly as broad as the fore-chest ; face very slightly convex ; mouth 

 pale buff, with a black tip extending to the hind hips : eyes not prominent : feelers pitchy, buff at the 

 base : fore-chest of equal breadth from the fore border to the hind border ; hind-scutcheon widened, and 

 nearly straight on each side ; hind border of the scutcheon of the middle chest very slightly excavated ; 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest: drums very small, far apart; legs pale buff; claws 

 black, tawny towards the base ; fore thighs armed with small teeth ; hind shanks beset with buff spines 

 whose tips are black ; wings whitish ; veins yellow ; fore-wings buff along the fore border ; cross-veins 

 clouded with brown ; a row of brown dots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets. 



" Second marginal areolet much longer than the first ; first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, about twice the length of the first ; third very slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much shorter 

 than the third ; fifth curved, forming a very slightly acute angle." 



Long. excl. tegm. <? . 18 millim. Exp. tegm. 50 miUim. Exp. pronot. angl. 9 milhm. 



Hab. — Continental India ; North Bengal (Miss Campbell, Brit. Mus. ; and Calc. Mus.) 



This appears to be a very rare species, or at all events is very seldom found in collections ; 

 it is probably quite confined to Continental India, and even there its distribution may be 

 considerably locahsed. The male specimen figured is in the possession of the Calcutta 

 Museum. 



C. Wings always more or less opaque. 



D. Terjmina opaquely spotted or handed, j^ > '■*' 



6. Pcecilopsaltria basi-viridis. (Tab. IX., fig. 6, a, h.) 



Platypleura basi-viridis, Walker, List. Horn. i. p. 18, n. 24 (1850) ; Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 188, n. 19 (1874). 



Head and thorax above brownish-ochraceous ; the posterior margins of pro- and meso-notums 

 stramineous; head with a large spot on each side of front, and a transverse fascia between the eyes, 

 enclosing ocelli and connected with base, black; pronotum with a central discal angulated spot, two 

 transverse spots on centre of posterior margin, a somewhat obliciue spot behind eyes, the lateral margins 

 and the furrows black : mesonotum with four obconical spots on the anterior margin, the central ones shortest, 

 a large spear-shaped central spot— not reaching anterior margin,— on each side of this a small rounded 

 spot, a spot on the centre of anterior margin and the anterior angles of the cruciform elevation, black ; 

 abdomen blackish, the tympanal coverings and the posterior segmental margins ochrnceous. Body 

 beneath dull ochraceous ; central sulcation and anterior margin of face,— excluding centre,— a large spot 

 between face and eyes, apex of rostrum and apices of the tarsi black. 



Tegmina hyaline, the venation brownish, costal membrane brownish with two blackish spots ; basal 

 cell brownish with a darker spot, a curved fascia crossing near base, followed by a more waved macular 

 fascia, a dark and outwardly concave macular fascia crossing beyond end of radial area, an oblique fascia 

 situate on the transverse veins at bases of apical areas, and extending from post-costal area to about 

 half the lireadth of tegmina, and a double series of small obscure spots on apices of longitudinal veins to 



