ORIENTAL CICADID/E. 81 



Genus LEPTOPSALTPJA. 



Leptopsaltria, StfJ, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 5 (186G) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 227 (1885) ; ibid. vol. Iv. 

 p. 157 (1886). 



Body moderately long and robust. Head somewhat narrowed anteriorly, including eyes about equal 

 in breadth to the anterior margin of the mesonotum ; ocelli not quite twice the distance from eyes as from 

 each other; front somewhat conical and subprominent. Pronotum with the lateral margms moderately 

 ampHated and more or less distinctly toothed. Gente* internally near the apex at the base of the lores,* 

 furnished with a tubercle or tumescence. Anterior femora distinctly and robustly spmed. Kostrum extendmg 

 beyond the posterior coxfe. Tympana covered ; opercula short. Second and thh-d abdominal segments in 

 the male furnished with a well-developed tubercle near each lateral margin. Tegmiua witli the mterior 

 ulnar area not, or shghtly, narrowed at apes. 



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This genus of Cicadidce, with covered tympana and clear tegmina, is easily recognised in 

 the male sex, by the character of the lateral tubercles to the second and third abdommal 

 segments. In the Tihiccmncc we have a simHar genus, separated by the tympana bemg 

 practically uncovered, for which I propose the generic name Cakagninus. \ 



The distribution of the genus is conterminate with the faunistic area embraced by this 

 monograph, and every known species is thus included. 



a. Opercula tcith the postcriormargins obliquely straight, the lateral margins usually oblique, sometimes 

 slightly convex. 

 1. Leptopsaltria quadrituberculata. (Tab. VIII., fig. 6, a, b.) 



Cicada qiuidritaberculata, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Eut. de Fr. ser. 2, vol. v. p. 297 (1847). 



Dundtcbia qnudniuherculata. Walk., List Horn. i. p. 78, n. 40 (1850); Stul, Ann. Soc. Eut. de Fr. ser. 4, 



vol. iv. p. 60 (1864). 

 Leptopsaltria qmdrituheradata, Stil, Berl. Ent. Zeit. x. p. 170 (18GC) ; Ofv. Yet. Ak. Forb. 1870, p. 710, n. 1. 



S Body above ochraceous. Head with the lateral striations to front, a series of huear marks on 

 vertex and the area of the ocelli black; eyes castaueous ; ocelH red. Pronotum with two central black 

 lines the posterior and inner lateral margms also black, and an irregular black spot on posterior mai-gin 

 near' each lateral angle. Mesonotum with five black linear spots, the central one straight and crossmg 

 disk the others situate two on each side, shorter and oblique, and with four small rounded black spots near 

 base' Abdomen pale castaneous, sparingly clothed with greyish pile, the segmental margms pale blackish ; 

 lateral margins of the tympanal coverings also blackish. Body beneath, rostrum and legs ochraceous; 

 apices of face and genaj, a fascia between eyes and face, a broad annulation at apices of anterior femora, 

 anterior tibiffi excluding apices, anterior halves-excludmg apices-of intermediate tibi.-e, anterior tarsi 

 excluding base, apex of rostrum, margins of opercula, abdominal tubercles, and apex of abdomen, black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; the first with the costal membrane and venation ochraceous with 

 blackish"shadings, the transverse veins at the bases of the second and third apical areas infuscated ; wings 

 ■with the venation ochraceous, more or less infuscated. 



* The terms "senio" and "lores" may be described in the words of Bmmeister :-" The sides of the head from the 

 .ve, dowmvardlTo the mouth, are called claeeks (geiuc). We again distinguish m them the autenor portion, extenchi.g as far 

 afthe arUculution ot the mandibles and maxillle, or the con^encemeut of the mouth, by the name of reins or lora. - 

 "(• Manual Knlomologv,' Shuckard's translation, p. 51). _ 



t The author quoted by Burton, in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' as an authority for the power of music on the msect 

 world,— "bees though they be flying away, when they hear any tingling sound will tarry beUiua. 



