ORIENTAL CICADWJE. 15 



longitudinal sulcation extending through its lower two-thirds, and it is also transversely striated to that 

 extent. 



Long. excl. tegm. 18 millim. Exp. tegm. 55 milHm. Exp. pronot. angl. 10 millim. 



Hab, — China: Chusan (Calc. Mus.). 



I have only seen one specimen of this well-marked and interesting species. 

 IG. Poecilopsaltria westwoodi. (Tab. I., fig. 18, a, h.) 



Plati/pleuiK ]i'estuon<lii, Still, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. ser. 8, vol. i. p. 571 I18G3); Bull. Cist. Ent. i. p. 186, 



II. 13 I187-1). 



I do not possess this species, and the following is Stul's description : — 



" Remote sericea, pallide olivaceo-virescens vel flavescens, macula media fasciaque utrimque laterali 

 verticis, macula vel fascia lata genarum, maculis nonnullis minutis thoracis, maculis quattuor l)asalibu8, 

 duabus discoidalibus minoribus pone medium maculaque sublaterali oblongo-obtriangulari scutelh, fasciis 

 basalibus segmentorum abdominis, dorsalibus latis, ventralibus angustis, tarsis anterioribus totis basique 

 tarsorura posticorum, vitta exterioro tibiarum anticarum nee non alls nigro-fuscis aut nigris, harum 

 fascia latissima irregular! media, limbum posteriorem haud attingeute, limboque testaceo-flaveseentibus ; 

 tegminibus fuscescentibus, fascia obliqua prope basin sordide testaceo-flavescente, macula subcostali longe 

 ante medium maculaque discoidali pallide testaceo-flaveseentibus, pellucidis, maculis nonnuUis majusculis 

 pone medium in seriem transversam subcoutinuam dispositis, macula subcostali prope apicem, maculisque 

 quattuor marginis apicalis vitreis, anastomosibus obscurius fusco-marginatis, areis apicalibus apice et 

 prope apicem ad venas longitudinales maculis parvis geminis obscure fuscis notatis 2 . 



" PI. phihEnoicU, Walk.,* a qua PI. interna, V^&\k.* haud distingui potest, quoad formam thoracis 

 affinis, aliter picta; differt prteterea statura minus crassa, capite proportionaliter latiore, ocellis plus duplo 

 longius al) oculis quam inter se remotis, frontis sulco longitudiuali minus profundo, costa basin versus 

 minus dilatata, maculis vitreis tegminum multo paucioribus et minoribus, genitalibus feminie magis 

 productis, metasternique basi inter pedes intermedios magis producta." 



Long. excl. tegm. 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 78 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 15 millim. 



Hab. — Ceylon (Hope Coll., Oxford — Calc. Mus.). 



The male specimen here figured is in the collection of the Calcutta Museum. It is 

 another of those rare species in Museums, which rather show the want of interest felt in these 

 insects by collectors than the scarcity of the species itself. 



17. Poecilopsaltria hilpa. (Tab. I., fig. C, a, h.) 



Platypleum hilpa, Walker. List Hom. i. p. 6, n. 10 (1850) ; Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 185, n. G (1874); Atkins. 



J. A. S. Bang. vol. Iv. p. 149, n. 12 (1885). 

 Platypleura fcncstrata, Uliler. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. p. 282 (1861). 

 PacUopsaltria hilpa. Still, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. x. p. 109 (1806). 



Head and pronotum dark ochraccous ; a curved fascia on front, a spot above insertion of antennie, 

 and a transverse fascia between eyes, black ; pronotum with a central discal longitudinal fascia, widened 

 posteriorly, black, the extreme lateral margins also more or less infuscated; mcsonotum with four 

 obconical spots on anterior mai'gin, the central two shortest, a central longitudinal lanceolate spot, and a 

 small spot in front of each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen black, the 

 posterior segmental margins a little paler, the tympanal coverings ochraceous ; head beneath, sternum, 

 opercula, legs and rostrum ochraceous ; a subquadrate black spot with its centre ochraceous on anterior 

 margin of head between eyes and face; face black, its anterior margin ochraceous, the edges of the 



* = Platypleura repanda, Linu. 



