OllIEXTAL CICADIDJE. 9 



apical aveas dark brownish ; wing3 ochraceons, inarsins broadly — especially at apex— <lark brownish, with 

 a pale marginal whitish spot at apex and centre of posterior margin. 



Long. excl. tegm. (? , 18 millim. Exp. tcgm. 52 to 55 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 10 millim. 



Ilab. — Continental India : Karwar (Calc. Mus.*. 



This is another of those species described by Walker, to which, at the time, no locality 

 could be given ; but a specimen recently forwarded to me by Mr. Atkinson, which had been 

 captured at Karwar, enables the species to be added to our fauna. 



7. PcEcilopsaltria basialba. (Tab. VIII., fig. 19, a, h.) 



(Xri/plenra iHiainllHi, Wallcer, List Horn. i. p. 2G, u. 8 (1850). 



PhiKjpleui-,! haxialha, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 191, n. 82 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beug. vol. Iv. p. 147, n. 7 (1886). 



This species being only known to the writer by the typical specimen in the British 

 Museum, the usual plan of giving the original description is followed : — 



" Body yellow, clothed with white hairs, covered beneath with white powder ; forehead adorned with 

 a black band in front and behind, and with a stripe of short black bands on each side ; cheeks also with 

 slender black bands ; eyes tawny ; eyelets red ; feelers tawny, with black bands and tips ; fore-chest 

 adorned with seven small black marks ; middle-chest adorned with three black stripes, the side pair 

 oblique, the middle one straight, widened on each side by the fore border, and having a small black spot on 

 each side near the hind border ; abdomen black ; drums, tip and hind borders of the segments 

 yellow; legs yellow, clothed with short white hairs; tips of the claws black; hind-shanks beset with 

 tawny spines ; fore thighs armed beneath with two small teeth ; wings colourless, white at the base 

 above, brown at the base beneath ; from this brown hue a short tawny stripe proceeds along the hind 

 border, and communicates with an oblique brown band which crosses the wing near its base ; hind-wings 

 colourless, dark brown with a whitish outline for near half the surface from the base, which is tawny ; 

 flaps dark brown ; veins tawny, pitchy at the tips of the fore-wings. 



" Second marginal areolet as long as the first ; first cross-vein nearly straight, very slanting, 

 forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by full five times its length ; second very 

 slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, a little more than twice the length of 

 the first ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth curved, upright, forming a 

 slightly acute angle." 



Long. excl. tegm. 21 millim. Exp. tegm. 62 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 11 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; North Bengal (Miss Campbell — Brit. ilus.). 



This appears to be either a very rare or a very local species. 



8. Poecilopsaltria subrufa, (Tab. I., fig. 1, a, h.) 



Oxypleimi siihru/ci, Walker, List Hom. i. p. 25. u. 7 (1850). 



Platijpleiim subrufa, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 192, n. 36 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 21C, n. 14 (1885); 

 ibid. Iv. p. 148, n. 9 (188G). 



Head brownish-ocbraceous ; lateral and basal margin of front, anterior lateral margins of vertex 

 and a transverse fascia between the eyes black ; pronotum brownish-ochraceous, the posterior and lateral 

 margins stramineous, edges of the dilated lateral margins and a small obscure central discal spot black : 

 mesonotum pale castaneous, with four obconical black spots on anterior margin, the central two shortest, 

 a central black elongate discal spot, and a small rounded black spot in front of each anterior angle of the 



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