36 ORIENTAL CICADWM. 



A typical male specimen in the British Museum is here figured, and as this is the writer's 

 only knowledge of the species, Walker's original description of a female is here given : — 



" Female. Green, partly testaceous. Head with minute black marks in front and on each side, and 

 with a large black spot on the vertex. Prothorax with six black stripes ; the inner pair dilated at each 

 end ; the middle pair oblique ; the third pair marginal ; a curved brown discal streak on each side between 

 the first and second pairs. Mesothorax with five black stripes, which are slightly dilated hindward; 

 inner pair shortened hindward ; outer pair curved outward hindward ; two black dots on the hind border. 

 Abdomen with a black lanceolate mark on each of the first and second segments, with black dots along 

 each side, and with a black subapical band. Wings vitreous. Fore wings with the costa green, luteous 

 beyond the middle ; stigma black, with a pale band ; veins green, partly black ; first and second transverse 

 veins very slightly clouded with brown ; first parted by more than twice its length from the second." 



Long. excl. tegm. 22 millim. Exp. tegm. 60 millim. 



Hab.— "Hindostan,"* sic (Brit. Mus.). 



Walker describes this species as closely resembling D. tigrina, " but may be distinguished 

 by the outward curve of the exterior stripes on the mesothorax, by the spots and band of the 

 abdomen, and by the first transverse vein of the fore wing, which is slightly oblique outward, 

 whereas that of D. tigrina is very oblique inward." 



L. tigroides and L. tigrina are, however, structurally distinct by the shape of the opercula, 

 which in the first named species are small and very convex ; the surface and markings of the 

 face are also distinct. 



c. Opercula with their ajnces obtusely angulated, the apical margins straight or slightly concave. 

 11. Leptopsaltria albiguttata. (Tab. VIII., fig. 8, a, h, & Tab. X., fig. 4, a, h.) 



Dunduhia alhujutta, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. i. ji. 83, n. 4 (1856). 



Pale ochraceous, with the following black markings : — head with linear fasciae on anterior margins 

 of front, a spot on anterior lateral angle of vertex, a curved line in front of eyes, and the area of the ocelli ; 

 pronotum with the anterior margin and extreme posterior margins, two irregular central longitudinal 

 lines, on each side of which is an angulated linear spot, a somewhat rounded linear spot on each lateral 

 area, and a small spot on each lateral margin ; mesonotum with a central longitudinal line, on each side 

 of which is a short curved linear fascia, again followed by a longitudinal series of three small spots and 

 a spot in front of each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation, posterior segmental margins, some 

 short transverse fasciae on upper half of face, two small spots between face and eyes, four small spots 

 near base of rostrum, apex of rostrum, anterior femoral spines, and some small spots to sternum. 



Tegmina and wings j^ale hyaline, the venation ochraceous, becoming pale fuscous towards apical 

 areas ; tegmina with the costal membrane ochraceous, and the transverse veins at the bases of the second 

 and third apical areas narrowly infuscated. 



Opercula small, the inner angles obtusely acute, the inner apical margins concavely sinuate, their 

 apices narrowed and convexly rounded, the outer margins oblique. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ , 23 to 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 67 to 69 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula : Perak (coll. List.) ; Malacca (Wallace, Brit. Mus.). Sumatra : Western 

 Eegion (V. Lansberg — Bruss. Mus.) ; Tapanoeli iV. Lansberg — Leyden Mus.) ; Koetoer and Moeara Laboe 

 (Sum. Exped. — Leyden Mus.). Java (coll. Dist.). 



* The vague use of the words " India" aud " Hindostan," in Zoology, recall to mind the equally uncertain value of the 

 first-named word in some of the traditions of the fourth centur_y, which attributed to Christianity certain very remote 

 conquests. As Benau writes, " The use of the word India was extremely vague ; whoever had embarked at Clysiua and made 

 the voyage of the Red Sea was reported to have been in India." — (' Marcus Aurelius,' Eng. edit.). 



