44 ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 



directed obliquely inwardly, and one (largest) on each lateral area, but not reaching anterior margin, 

 a black spot in front of each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation. Body beneath and legs 

 brownish-ochraceous, femora more or less streaked with black ; the tibiae, tarsi, apex of rostrum, a spot 

 between face and eyes and the apical margin of face black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation fuscous. 



The opercula extend to about half the length of the abdomen, are concavely constricted on each side 

 near base and then convexly widened, with their apices rounded. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 48 millim. Exp. tegm. 115 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India: Karwar (Calc. Mus.). 



2. Cosmopsaltria nagarasingna.* (Tab. IV., fig. 14, a, h.) 



Dunduhia nayarasimjna. Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 635 ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 225, 

 n. 51 (1885). 



^ . Body above castaneous. Head with centre of front and an oblique fascia on each side of ocelli 

 ochraceous. Pronotum with a central fascia and the lateral and posterior margins ochraceous. Mesonotum 

 with two anterior central obconical spots denoted by black margins ; margins of basal cruciform elevation 

 ochraceous. Abdomen with the basal half sparingly clothed with greyish pile, the apical half much more 

 densely so, and with a broad lateral fascia of greyish pile on each side. Body beneath, with the sternum, 

 legs and opercula, pale ochraceous ; abdomen pale castaneous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; costal membrane of tegmina ochraceous. 



Head broad, including eyes subequal in width to base of pronotum, and wider than mesonotum ; the 

 face is very tumid, the centre longitudinally sulcated for half the length, and sides transversely striated ; 

 rostrum reaching apex of posterior coxaj ; opercula long, reaching base of last abdominal segment, 

 narrowest and with the edges concave from base to commencement of second abdominal segment, from 

 which they are somewhat suddenly widened with the edges convex ; apex somewhat narrower and rounded. 

 Anterior femora with two long ochraceous spines ; posterior tibiae with two long black spines, somewhat 

 close together on inner margin near apex, and two much wider apart on outer margin. 



Long. excl. tegm. 84 to 38 millim. Exp. tegm. 88 to 95 millim. 



Hab.— Burma (Bingham— coll. Dist.) ; N.W. Districts (coll. Dist.). Tenasseeim : Myitta in the Valley 

 (Doherty— coll. Dist.). Cochin China (coll. Signoret). 



3. Cosmopsaltria larus. (Tab. 5, fig. 1, a, h, and var. Tab. IV., f. 13.) 



Dunduhia lams, AValker, List Horn., Suppl. p. 7 (1858). 



Cicada—" The Knife- Grinder," Emerson Teiinent, Nat. Hist. Ceylon, p. 432, fig. (1861). 



Head and thorax above greenish-ochraceous ; abdomen pale castaneous. Head with the lateral areas 

 of face, the area of the ocelli, an angulated fascia in front of eyes, and two small spots on posterior margin 

 near eyes, black. Pronotum with two central, longitudinal, angulated and connected black linear fasciae, 

 on each side of which is a short curved discal fascia, the incisures and the edges of lateral margins also 

 black. Mesonotum with five black fasciae, one central and longitudinal, two short and angulated, and the 

 outer two longer, but very irregularly shaped and angularly curved ; a black spot in front of each anterior 

 angle of the basal cruciform elevation. Abdomen with some central black discal spots. Head beneath, 

 sternum, legs and opercula ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous ; apices of anterior femora, bases and apices 

 of anterior and intermediate tibiae, bases of posterior tibiss and anterior and intermediate tarsi black. 

 Abdomen beneath pale castaneous. 



Tegmnia and wings pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous or greenish, in some places black. 



* Nagarasingna, the first conquering Bm-mese king, -n-ho is said to have subdued Arracan.— (Rev. F. Mason, 

 'Tenasserim,' p. 450). 



