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8. Leptopsaltria pryeri.* (Tab. VIII., fig. 12, a, h.) 



Leptopsaltna pryeri, Distaut, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 633. 



Body above brownish-ocbraceous ; head with the frontal margin, the area of the ocelli and the 

 posterior margin (narrowly) blackish ; pronotiim with an obscure central longitudinal sulcation, the edges 

 of which are very slightly raised and darkened, commencing on anterior margin, but not extending 

 through more than half the pronotal length, lateral and posterior margins ochraceous ; mesonotum with 

 two obscure obconical spots on anterior margin, the edges of which are blackish ; abdomen beneath and 

 legs pale brownish-ochraceous ; opercula inwardly and narrowly margined with blackish, abdominal 



tubercles dark castaneous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline with a pale ochraceous tinge, venation brownish-ochraceous; 

 tegmina^with the costal membrane brownish-ochraceous; a small dark costal spot at base of upper ulnar 

 area; the transverse veins at the bases of second, third and fifth apical areas infuscated, and a sub- 

 marginal series of small pale fuscous spots placed near the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas. 

 ''The opercula are situate closer together tlian in the preceding species, L. tuhcrosa, and are alsa less 

 convex, and have their apices more convexly angulated. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 20 millim. Exp. tegm. 82 millim. 



Hab.— Borneo: Sandakant (Pryer— coll. Dist.). 



9. Leptopsaltria tigrina. (Tab. X., tig. 6, a, h.) 



Dumluhu, ti.jrina, Walker, List Horn. i. p. G9, n. 31 (1850) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 224. n. 45 (1885). 



Head and thorax above ochraceous ; abdomen brownish ochraceous. Head with the frontal margins, 

 the area of the ocelli, inner margin of eyes, and an angulated fascia on each lateral area of vertex black ; 

 pronotum with the anterior margin, two central longitudinal fascia, and a semicircular lineate spot on 

 each lateral area, black ; mesonotum with a central longitudinal fascia, on each side of which is a shorter 

 curved fascia, followed by a small costal spot, a broken irregular fascia on each lateral area, and a smaU 

 spot in front of each anterior angle of the cruciform elevation, black; abdomen with the segmental 

 margins black. Thorax beneath, legs and opercula greenish ochraceous; abdomen beneath pale 

 ochraceous, the tubercles, a spot near base and the apex black; a transverse spot between face and eyes, 

 a small spot at apex of face, and the apex of the rostrum black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, venation brownish-ochraceous, becoming fuscous towards apical 

 areas; Tegmina with the costal membrane brownish-ochraceous; a small pale ochraceous submarginal 

 spot near base of upper ulnar area, the transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly 

 infuscated, and some small faint fuscous marginal spots near apex. 



The opercula are small, wide apart, with their apices convexly angulated, and their inner margms not 

 distinctly convex as in the two preceding species. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 24 to 27 millim. Exp. tegm. 68 millim. 



Hab.-CoNTiNENTAL Indu : Malabar (Brit. Mus.) ; Trivandrum m Travankor (H. S. Fergusson-coll. 

 Dist.). Malay Peninsula : Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



10. Leptopsaltria tigroides. (Tab. XII., fig. 18, a, b.) 



Dittiiliihiii liiiruiilis, Walker, Ins. Sauud. Hom. p. 5 (1858). 



Pompo„ia tigroides, Dist. J. A. S. Boug. vol. xlviii. p. 38 (1879) ; Atkins, ibid. vol. liii. p. 229. u. 68 (1885). 



* Named after my friend Mr. W. B. Pryer, to whom I am indebted for the above and many other fine species belonging 

 to different orders of insects from Northern Borneo. 



f British North Borneo is evidently rich in the family Cicadida;, for besides information acquired firom Mr. Pryer. 

 Mr. Guillemard. in his acconnt of the zoolojdcal features of that province, describes "the ceaseless and car-piercmg /c/i.r-r— r 

 of thousands of cicadas."— (' The Cruise of the Marchesa,' vol. ii. p. 95). 



