ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 13 



Long. excl. tegm. 25 millim. Exp. tegin. 7G millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 14.V to 15 millim. 

 Ilab. — NicoBAR Islands (Brit. Miis. — Calc. Mus. — coll. Dist.). 



We have no record as to the precise island, or islands, of the Nicobar group from which 

 the specimens alluded to above have been derived. The species is allied to the following, — 

 P. fulvigera, Walk., — but differs structurally by the width of the pronotal angles. 



According to my note-book, I once saw a specimen received from the Andaman Islands, 

 but without more precise information it is unsafe to add that very prol)able habitat. 



13. Poecilopsaltria fulvigera. (Tab. I., fig. 2, a, b, var.) 



Platypleurafulvhjcya, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 9, n. 14 (1850); ButL Cist. Eiit. i. p. 185, u. 9 (1874) ; Waterli. 



Aid Ident. Ins. t. 152, f. G. 

 Pcecilopsaltria fulvigera, Still, Berl. Ent. Zeitscbr. x. p. 169 (1866) ; Ofv. Vet-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 707, 1. 



$ . Head and pronotum ochraceous ; some linear markings on front, a broken narrow fascia between 

 eyes, and tlie edges of the lateral dilated pronotal margins, black ; mesonotum pale castaneous, with four 

 black obconical spots on anterior margin, of which the two central ones are smallest, a narrow lanceolate 

 discal spot (not seen on specimen figured), and a small black spot in front of each anterior angle of the 

 basal cruciform elevation ; abdomen black, the posterior segmental margins ochraceous. Head beneath, 

 sternum, legs and rostrum ochraceous ; a narrow fascia between eyes containing a small pale spot on 

 anterior margin of face, inner margin of eyes and apex of rostrum black ; abdomen blackish, with the 

 posterior segmental margins and the anal appendage ochraceous. 



Tegmina with the basal half ochraceous and opaque, with a spot at base followed by a transverse 

 fascia and a few scattered spots, and a spot on costal membrane, dark brownish ; remaining area pale 

 hyaline, with the venation, a broad transverse fascia at end of opaque basal area and a short oblique fascia 

 on apices of first and second ulnar areas dark brownish ; the transverse vein at apex of third ulnar area 

 infuscated, and some minute brownish spots near the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas; 

 wings ochraceous, the inner posterior margin and a short discal fascia near apex dark brownish. 



Tdr. a. — Wings having the subapical discal fascia fused with the outer margin, as in the specimen 

 figured. 



Long. excl. tegm. 2 . 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 68 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 13 millim. 



Hab. — Philippine Islands (Brit. Mus.— Stock. Mus.); Manilla (coll. Sign.). Celebes (Meyer — 

 Dresden Mus.). 



This species, which, as already pointed out, is allied to the preceding species, P. nicoharica, 

 also varies in the same way as that species by the sometimes fused dark markings of the wings. 

 The Philippine Islands are evidently the head-quarters of the species.* 



14. Poecilopsaltria sphinx. (Tab. VIII., fig. 16, a, h, c.) 



Platijpleura sphinx, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 18, ii. 18 (1850) ; Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 188, n. 20 (1874) ; Atkius. 

 J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 218, n. 6 (1885) ; ibid. Iv. p. 145, n. 3 (1886). 



This species is only known to the writer by the types in the British Museum ; the original 

 description is therefore here given : — 



" Body pale tawnj', tinged with white, clothed with short, whitish hairs ; head narrower than the 

 fore-chest; crown adorned with two brown bands; face very slightly convex; mouth tawny, with a brown 



* A considerable number of Cicadida; are recorded from these islands, Stal, by the aid of Semper's collection, having 

 enumerated or described tweuty-eight species, which does not include some others described by WiJker. .\t Zamboanga, Lord 

 Geo. Campbell describes the woods as "alive with the thrilling buzz of larf;e Cicadas, rejoicing in their new skins, wlnle the oki 

 ones were still stickiufj under leaves and on the trunks of trees. You thought you had caught a Cicada asleep, but it was ouly 

 his empty outside."—' Log-letters from the Challenger,' 1st edit. p. 238. 



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