46 OEIENTAL CICADIDM. 



The opercula do not reach the penultimate abdominal segment, are only moderately constricted on 

 each side near base, and have their apices broadly but obtusely rounded. 

 Long. excl. tegm. S , 50 millim. Exp. tegm. 122 milhm. 

 Hab. — Continental India : Sikkim (Calc. Mus. ; coll. Dist.) ; Assam (Calc. Mus.). 



C. similis is closely allied in general appearance and markings to C. radha, Dist., 

 a species which, from the totally different structure of the opercula, I place in another section 

 of the genus. 



6. Cosmopsaltria oopaga.* (Tab. V., fig. 9, a, h.) 



Cosmopsaltria oopaga, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1881, p. 610; Atkius. J. A. S.Beng. vol. liii. p. 227, 

 n. 58 (1885). 



Head dull ochraceous. Posterior lateral margins of front black ; two basal ocelli surrounded with 

 black, which extends to posterior margin. Pro- and meso-notum pale olivaceous ; the first with a central 

 longitudinal ochraceous fascia, bordered with black, which is widest anteriorlj', and rounded, with the black 

 lines continuous posteriorly. Mesonotum with two obconical spots, bordered with black on anterior 

 margin, followed by a small black spot and an anterior lateral fascia ; a ciirved basal fascia and a small 

 si^ot on each frontal side of cruciform elevation of the same colom-. Abdomen dull ochraceous, inclining to 

 olivaceous, with the lateral sides sparingly covered with greyish pubescence, and with an indistinct lateral 

 segmental row of fuscous spots. Underside of body pale ochraceous or olivaceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hj'aline. 



The body is broad and somewhat depressed, the abdomen narrowing at apex. The head, including 

 eyes, is narrower than base of pronotum, and but little wider than mesonotum. The rostrum about 

 reaches the apex of the first abdominal segment. The opercula, which almost reach the apex of the fourth 

 abdominal segment, are situated on the lateral sides of abdomen, and are much wider aj^art at base than 

 at apex ; they are concavely narrowed on each side near base, and are then widened and convex on each 

 side to apex, which is broad and rounded, the extreme apex being on outer margin. The face is globose, 

 with a curved black fascia at base, and a central longitudinal sulcation ; it is profoundly transversely 

 striated, the interstices being very broad. 



Long. excl. tegm. 39 millim. Exp. tegm. 96 millim. 



Hab. — Burma (coll. Dist.). 



I have unfortunately no more precise locality for this species. 



7. Cosmopsaltria andersoni.f (Tab. V., fig. 6, a, h.) 



Cusmopsaltria andersoni, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. ii. p. 170 (1883). 



Head olivaceous. Lateral margins of front, area of ocelli, and a small spot on each side of 

 same black. Pro- and mesonotum olivaceous, the first with a central longitudinal ochraceous fascia, 

 bordered with black, widest anteriorly, and compressed about centre, and with a small curved black line 

 behind the eyes ; mesonotum with two obconical spots bordered with black on anterior margin, on each 

 side of which is a small discal black streak and a long curved black spot on each side of base near anterior 

 angles of cruciform elevation, which are also black. Abdomen dull dark ochraceous. Underside of body 

 pale ochraceous ; annulation to anterior femora near their apices, upper surfaces and ajiices of anterior 



* Shin Oopaga, or Oopagoh ; by the Burmese a universally honoured payah-nge, or lesser divinity, who for having 

 carried off the clothes of a bather in a previous existence is condemned to live at the bottom of the river in a kyee-pya-that, 

 a brazen spire, where he zealously keeps the sacred days, and will remain in those quarters till Areemadehya, the next Buddha, 

 shall come. Then he will be set free, and entering the thenga will become a j-ahauda, and attain Neh'ban {cf. Capt. Forbes, 

 ' Brit. Burma,' p. 194). — (Shway Yoe, ' The Burmau, his Life and Notions,' vol. i. p. '272). 



f Named after Dr. John Anderson, late Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, to whose zoological enterprise 

 in Mergui and its Archipelago, we are indebted for the knowledge of this species. 



