OniEXTAL CICADID.E. I7 



Lonj:;. excl. tegra. 21 to 2o millim. Exp. tegm. 62 to 70 raillim. Exp. pronot. angl. 11 to 12 millim. 



Hab.— Cochin China (coll. Dist.). Philippine Isles (Semper— Stock. Mus.) ; Ternate (V. Lansberg— 

 Leyden Mus.). Moluccas : Amboyna (Wallace— Brit. Mus. ; Beccari— Genoa Mus. ; Hoedt— Leydeu Mus. ; 

 Forbes — coll. Dist.) ; Ceram (Bruss. Mus. ; Wallace — Brit. Mus.). 



This si^ecies is closely allied to the preceding, P. hilpa, from which it differs by the much 

 darker and more opaque tegmina, but the structural differences are very slight, and I fully 

 expect a long series of specimens from other localities will prove both to be but varietal 

 forms of one species. Typical /'. hilpa is found in China, and typical P. ciliaris in the 

 Moluccas, whilst my specimen, derived from Cochin China, is both intermediate in locality 

 and somewhat intermediate in appearance. 



Mr. Butler, in his "Monographic list" of the species of Platypkura, has fallen into obscurity 

 over this species, for he keeps the P. catocaloidcs, Walk., and P. arcuata, Walk., as distinct 

 species, though he states that the last is i^robably only a "local form" of the first. But as 

 P. arcuata was described nine years before I.', catocahidcs, in classification the position should 

 be reversed. Again, Mr. Butler has applied the name P. ciliaris, Linn., to an African species, 

 apparently in ignorance that Stal, five years previously, had, in his ' Hemiptera Fabriciaxia,' 

 identified and localised it as above. 



19. Poecilopsaltria andamana. (Tab. I., fig. 9, a, h.) 



Platypleurn iindatmnia, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1878, p. 174 ; Atkins. .J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. p. 214 



n. 8 (1885); ibid. vol. Iv. p. 146, u. 5 (1886). 

 Platypleura ruepMorjIii , Atkins. J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. p. 214, u. 9 (1885). 



Tawny, pubescent ; a spot on each side of front, and a transverse fascia between the eyes, black ; 

 eyes dark shining castaneous ; pronotum with two very smaU foveate pitchy spots placed close to^^ether 

 near centre of posterior margin; mesonotum with two large obconical spots on anterior mar<Tin and 

 having between them on disk a narrow lanceolate longitudinal spot, a small spot in front of each anterior 

 angle of the basal cruciform elevation, and an obscure fasciate spot on each side of the central obconical 

 spots, black ; abdomen blackish, the posterior segmental margins ochraceous and strongly and palelv 

 pilose ; body beneath and legs bro^,^^lish ochraceous. 



Tegmina brown, opaque, with pale semi-opaque markings, especially on the apical half; basal third 

 thickly covered with pale pubescence, and containing five dark brown spots, situate two in the radial area 

 one at base of third, and two in fourth ulnar area ; remainder of tegmina less pubescent, with a number 

 of greyish-white spots, of which the most prominent are a transverse series crossing tegmina at end of 

 apical area, and another waved series commencing about middle of upper ulnar area, where they are very 

 distinct beneath, the apical areas greyish-white ; a double row of small brown spots on and near the apices 

 of the longitudinal veins to the apical areas ; a dull whitish spot on inner angle of outer margin, which /.< 

 very prominent beneath. Wings very pale castaneous, with a dark brown outer margin, and some suffused 

 dark brown discal streaks. 



Long. excl. tegm. 22 to 2U millim Exp. tegm. 76^ to 84 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 14 millim. 



Hab. — Andaman Islands (Calc. Mus., Stock. Mus., coll. Dist.). 



The figure is taken from a male specimen in the collection of the Calcutta Museum, the 

 original description being that of the female sex only. It is a somewhat diflicult species to 

 accurately describe, but it is very distinct and easily recognised. Accordiui^ to jireseut 

 knowledge, it is quite confined to the Andaman Islands. 



