82 ORIENTAL CICADID^. 



The rostrum reaches the inner angles of the opercula, -which are widely separated, their apical margins 

 oblique, their lateral margins slightly convex. 



Long. excl. tegm. 41 millim. Exp. tegm. 110 millim. 



Hab. — Java (coll. Sign., coll. Dist.). Philippine Isles (Stockh. Mus. — Bruss. Mus.). China (Bowring — 

 Brit. Mus.). 



This is the largest species of the genus at present known to science 



2. Leptopsaltria mascula. (Tab. X., fig. 1, a, b.) 



Leptopsaltria mascula, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. iii. p. 420 (1889). 



^ . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum greenish ochraceous ; head with the margins of front, 

 anterior margins of vertex, inner margins of eyes, and the area of the ocelli black ; pronotum and 

 mesonotum with the following black markings : — pronotum with two central longitudinal fascia, widened 

 anteriorly and rounded and united posteriorly, the incisures, a large spot on lateral margins and three spots 

 on posterior margin, the central one smallest and linear ; mesonotum with five fascise, one central, widened 

 and somewhat cordate posteriorly, an abbreviated one on each side, followed by another completely 

 crossing disk, and two small spots in front of the cruciform elevation. Abdomen castaneous, the segmental 

 margins pitchy and a spot of the same colour at base. Head and thorax beneath, legs and opercula 

 greenish ochraceous, face with black strife, head spotted with black, apices of the tibire and tarsi blackish. 

 Abdomen beneath castaneous, with the tubercles and apex black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous ; tegmina with the apex slightly 

 infuscated, a small black and ochraceous spot at base of upper ulnar area and the transverse veins 

 at bases of second and third apical areas darkly infuscated. 



The rostrum reaches the posterior coxse ; the opercula are angulated, the outer and posterior margins 

 nearly straight. 



Long. excl. tegm. <y , 28 millim. Exp. tegm. 78 millim. 



Hab. — Borneo : Kina Balu Mtn. (Whitehead — coll. Dist.)- 



3. Leptopsaltria samia. (Tab. VIII., fig. 11, a, h.) 



Dundubia samia, Walker. List Hom. i. p. 77, n. 39 (1850) ; Atldns. J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. p. 225, u. 47 (1888). 



The following is Walker's original description : — 



"Body green, tinged here and there with tawny : head much narrower than the fore-chest, pitchy 

 about the eyelets, and with a pitchy streak on each side along the eye ; mouth tawny, with a black 

 tip reaching beyond the hind-hips ; eyes prominent ; feelers tawny ; scutcheon of the fore-chest 

 adorned with a pale streak which is slightly widened in front and behind ; a pitchy spot on each 

 side ; hind-scutcheon narrow in the middle, slightly angular and much widened at the base of each 

 fore-wing, slightly excavated on each side; scutcheon of the middle-chest ferruginous, adorned with 

 some green marks, of these there is a large angular spot in the middle, on each side a forked 

 mark, behind which there is a curved mark, and nearer each side a slight streak ; hind border 

 slightly excavated ; abdomen obconical, tawny, darker at the tip, longer than the chest, paler beneath ; 

 opercula tawny, small ; drums pale green, small, far apart : legs tawny ; tips of the claws black ; 

 fore-thighs armed with three teeth, two of moderate size, one very small ; wings colourless ; fore border 

 green, tawny beyond the brand ; veins green, adorned with a few black bands, tawny towards the tips ; 

 cross-veins clouded with pale brown ; a row of pale brown spots near the tips of the longitudinal veins of 

 the marginal areolets ; fore-flaps brown ; hind-flaps brown between the middle veins and the fore border." 



Long. excl. tegm. 26 millim. Exp. tegm. 76 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India: North India (sic) (Warwick— Brit. Mus.) ; Sikkim (coll. Dist.). 



