^22 ORIENTAL CICADID.E. 



area of tegmina pale hyaline, with an oblique fuscous fascia much waved and angulated near apex and a 

 series of small fuscous spots on and near apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas ; wrings dark fuscous, 

 with the outer margins, or nearly the apical third, pale hyaline ; abdominal area pale hyaline, slightly 

 infuscated. 



The rostrum is long, reaching considerably beyond the posterior coxte and to near the posterior 

 margin of the overlapping interior angles of the opercula. 



Var. a. Wings with the fuscous area containing a distinct oblique ochraceous ray. 



Long. excl. tegm. 15 to 17 millim. Exp. tegm. 50 to 60 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India: Garo Hills (Chennell — coll. Dist.) ; Samagooting (Calc. Mus.) ; Munjpoor 

 (Calc. Mus.). Sumatra (V. Langsberg — Bruss. Mus ; Hageu — Leyden Mus.). Java (V. Lansberg — Bruss. 

 Mus.; Hagen — Leyden Mus.). 



The var. a described above appears to be a purely continental race, and I have been unable 

 to trace an example in the large collections from Java and Sumatra which have passed through 

 my hands. P. nobllis varies in size, and in the intensity of markings to the tegmina ; in some 

 specimens also the basal opaque coloration to the tegmina is of a pale brownish-green hue. 



Walker gave as locality for the example he described under the name of P. (jemina (supra), 

 "Cape Good Hope," which has been copied by Butler, but is clearly erroneous. 



4. Platypleura insignis. (Tab. I., fig. 15.) 



Platijpleiira insignis. Distant, J. A. S. Beng. vol. xlviii. p. 39, t. 2, f. 2 (1879) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. 

 p. 216, n. 12 (1885). 



Body testaceous, thickly covered with griseous pubescence. Prouotum and mesouotum not differing 

 in structure and markings from P. nohilis, Germ., but more pubescent ; sternum and abdomen above and 

 beneath also resembling that species ; rostrum with the apex pitchy and extending to a little beyond posterior 

 coxse ; legs pale ochraceous, anterior and intermediate tarsi with the base, apex and claws pitchy. 



Tegmina pale hyaline, with the venation, costal membrane, costal area, radial area (excepting almost 

 apical half ) and a large basal patch transversely terminating from near the apex of the radial vein to the 

 apex of the lower ulnar area, fulvous covered with griseous pubescence ; the radial area is hyaline from about 

 its centre (where it is darkest in colour) to near the apex, which is narrowly fulvous and has a subconical 

 fuscous spot on its outer border. A double series of small spots situate on and near the apices of the 

 longitudinal veins to apical areas, and an irregular series of spots situate at the apices of the ulnar areas, 

 black. Wings pale hyaline, with the venation fulvous and with a large black basal patch. 



Allied to P. nobllis, Germ., but the tegmina and wings are very distinct, the dark opaque portions 

 being much less in each than in that species ; the rostrum is also shorter in length, and the opercula do 

 not so much overlap as in P. nohilis. 



Long. excl. tegm. 15 millim. Exp. tegm. 45 millim. 



Hab. — Upper Tenasseeiji* (Limborg — Calc. Mus.). 



The typical specimen described ten years ago, and now contained in the Calcutta Museum, 

 is the only example of this species I have yet seen. 



■■■ We possess little iuformatioa as to the Cicadida of Tenasserim. AVliat we have comes from the pen of the late 

 Kev. F. Mason, who wrote : — " One of the first objects that attracts the attention of an observer in some localities of the Karen 

 jungles, is a clay tube several inches high, raised over a shaft sunk tvifo or three feet in the ground, over which may be often 

 seen a Kai-en, bending and inserting the extremities of a long branch of a thorny rattan, which after a few twists is withdrawn, 

 bringing with it a grub that is deemed a great luxury." 



'•The natives have a distinct name for the grub, and seem to be ignorant that it is the larva of the Cicada. This I was 

 enabled to verify on one occasion by observing the exuviae of many of their pups adhering by claws to the serrated bark of 

 trees, with rents in their backs, out of which the perfect insect had escaped. The Karens, it may be observed, are no more 

 barbarous in' their taste than the civilized Greeks,' for Aristotle testifies that they were an article of diet, both in their larva 

 and perfect state, and one species is still eaten by American Indians. Tlie most common species is small, and often flies into 

 dwelling-houses." — 'Tenasserim; or, Notes on the Fauna, Flora, &o., -of British Burma and Pegu,' p. .985 (1852). 



