16 ORIENTAL CICADIBM. 



transverse striations castaneous, posterior margins of face, disk of mesosternum and basal margins of 

 opercula blackish; abdomen beneath very dark castaneous, greyishly pilose, the posterior segmental 

 margins pale castaneous. 



Tegmina nearly totally opaque, pale brownish, the costal membrane and venation ochraceous ; basal 

 area and an ill-defined transverse or macular fascia crossing centre, pale creamy ochraceous, a transverse 

 fascia at about one-third from apes and the marginal fringe creamy- white ; a double series— sometimes 

 connected— of small pale brownish spots near the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas. Wings 

 pale ochraceous, outer margins, excluding anal area, and an oblique discal fascia— connected with the 

 marginal fascia — dark brownish, a marginal spot near anal area pale creamy-white. 



The opercula meet at inner angles, but by a malformation they do not do so in the specimen figured 

 (fig. 6, h); the rostrum just passes the posterior coxae. 



Long. excl. tegm. 20 to '2-1 millim. Exp. tegm. 60 to 63 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 10^ millim, 



Hab.— China (Churchill— coll. Dist.) ; Hong Kong (Bowring— Brit. Mus.) ; Chusan (Calc. Mus.). 



This species seems clearly located in China, though I possess a specimen labelled 

 "India," to which habitat I bestow no credence whatever. In a little-worked family like the 

 Cicadidce, I have frequently acquired specimens with most erroneous locality labels, and the 

 only surprise is that the older authors were not in this way more frequently led astray. 



18. Poecilopsaltria ciliaris. (Tab. I., fig. 4, a, b.) 



Cicada cilians, LinnsBus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. i. p. 436, n. 12 (1758) ; Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 155, n. 2 (1764); Syst. 



Nat. ed. xii. 1, 2, p. 700, n. 8 (1767) ; Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. p. 757, u. 52 (1790) ; Germ, in Then. Ent. 



Arch. ii. 2, p. 2, u. 18 (1830); Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 78, b (1834). 

 Cicada ocellata, Be Geer, Mem. iii. p. 220, n. 16, t. 33, f. 2, 3 (1773) ; Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. p. 751, n. 21 (1790). 

 Cicada raria, Oliv. Enc. Metb. v. p. 766, u. 44 (1790). 

 Tettigonia marmorata, Fabr. Syst. Ebyng. p. 38, n. 24 (1808). 

 Cicada marmorata, Germ, in Thon. Arch. ii. 2, p. 2, u. 17 (1880). 



Platypleura arctiata, Walk. Ins. Saund. Horn. p. 1 (1858) ; Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 184, n. 4 (1874). 

 Platijpleura catocaloides, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. x. p. 82, n. 1 (1867) ; Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 184, 



u. 3 (1874). 

 Platypleura ciliaris, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 8, n. 2 (1869) ; Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. 1870, p. 707, u. 1 ; Butl. (part). 



Cist. Ent. i. p. 185, n. 7 (1874); Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. Iv. p. 144, n. 2 (1886). 

 Platypleura varia, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 184, n. 5 (1874); (excl. habitat). 

 Stoll, Cig. fig. 147. 



Body above greenish-ochraceous ; margins of front, area of ocelli, a central longitudinal fascia, two 

 short curved discal fascias and the oblique furrows to pronotum, black ; mesonotum with four, sometimes 

 six, obconical spots to anterior margin, the central two small, the outer two sometimes broken, thus forming 

 four spots (as in specimen figured), a central lanceolate spot and a small spot in front of each anterior angle 

 of the basal cruciform elevation, black ; posterior segmental margins and the anal appendage black. Body 

 beneath greenish-ochraceous, sometimes dark castaneous ; a spot at base of face, margins of apex of face, 

 apices of the rostrum and tarsi, black. 



Tegmina gi-eenish- or brownish-ochraceous, opaque, and greyishly pilose ; two spots on costal 

 membrane, an oblique transverse fascia near base, two converging fasciae near apex and a doul^le or fused 

 series of small spots near apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas dark brownish. Wings ochraceous, 

 the outer margins, an oblique discal fascia near apex (sometimes connected with base), and sometimes the 

 margins of the anal area chocolate-brown. 



The opercula in the male very slightly overlap at their inner angles ; the rostrum reaches, but doea 

 not pass the posterior coxae. 



