66 ORIENTAL CICADID.E. 



divergent, and narrowing to apex, which is obtuse, and reaches the fourth abdominal segment. Anterior 

 femora armed with three spines; two moderately large and ochraceous, apical one small and black. 

 Posterior tibiae with three black spmes on inner side near apex, and two smaller and wider apart on 

 outer margin. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 33 millim. Exp. tegm. 85 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India : Sikkim (Calc. Mus. & coll. Dist.) ; Assam, North Khasi Hills, 1500 to 

 3000 ft. (Chennell*— coll. Dist.). 



cc. Tegmina with the transverse veins at the bases of the second and third apical areas infuscated. 

 2i. Cosmopsaltria durga.f (Tab. IV., fig. 6, a, b.) 



Cosmopsaltria dun/a, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 637; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 226, n. 56 (1885). 

 ^ . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum dull ochraceous. Head with the following black markings : — 

 an irregular spot on front ; a large central fascia on vertex, reaching from anterior to posterior margins, 

 produced on each side in front, and enclosing ocelli ; a curved fascia a little before inner margin of eyes, 

 and a subtriangular spot on apex of lateral margin. Pronotum with the anterior margin (narrow), 

 a central longitudinal fascia, bordered with black on each side, and a biangulated fascia on each lateral 

 margm, pale ochraceous ; two narrow oblique fasciae on each side, a narrow longitudinal fascia on each 

 side of disk, inner posterior, and inner and outer lateral margins, black. Mesonotum with a clavate 

 central longitudinal fascia, bounded on each side by a shorter, broader, and much angulated one, followed 

 by an elongated spot, and by a sublateral broad fascia, broken near anterior margin, two rounded spots 

 near base, and two smaller ones on anterior branches of cruciform elevation at base. Abdomen pale 

 castaneous, disk piceous, gradually widening from base to apes, where it is wholly black. Under side 

 body ochraceous and unspotted ; a black spot on inner margin of eyes, anterior tibis and tarsi, apices 

 of intermediate tibiie and tarsi, and apex of rostrum, piceous. Opercula pale greenish. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas, infuscated. 



Face broadly sulcated in centre, and transversely striated (many of the strise black) ; rostrum passing 

 posterior coxa;, and reaching inner angles of opercula. Opercula reaching the third abdominal segment, 

 their outer margins subparallel with lateral abdominal margins, hij^ped and widest (but not meeting) 

 near bases of posterior femora, from thence diverging and gradually narrowing to apex, which is ol)tusely 

 angulated. Anterior femora with two long and prominent teeth, and a shorter one near apex. Posterior 

 tibiae with three inner and two outer long marginal spines. Abdomen broad, apex obtuse. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 33 millim. Exp. tegm. 98 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India : Assam, North Khasi Hills, 1500 to 3000 ft. (Chennell— coll. Dist.) ; Naga 

 Hills (Calc. Mus.). 



25. Cosmopsaltria opalifera. (Tab. V., fig. 2, a, b.) 



DumluUa opaUfera, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 56, n. 16 (1850). 



Head and thorax above olivaceous ; head with the lateral striations to and a spot near base of front, 

 the area of the ocelli, and a large irregular lateral fascia in front of eyes, black ; pronotum with two 

 central black fasciae in somewhat hourglass-shape, the furrows, a spot near each lateral angle of 

 posterior margin, and the extreme lateral margin, black ; mesonotum with five large black fasciate spots, 

 of which two are obconical with their bases on the anterior margin, one large central and subtriangular, 



J -ol ^^' ^' ^' ^^^°"^1'' '° t^6 y^S'i 18'^8, probably liroiight home the finest collection of insects— principally Coleoptera 

 and Rhynchota— which had till then been made on the North-Eastern Frontier of India. This collection had been made by 

 himself, and chiefly on the North Khasi, the Eastern Garo, and the Naga Hills. I described and enumerated the Heteroptera 

 It °Au'^ ^^*"' ^^^' ■^^'" ^'^'^^y< ^^^ Coleoptera were examined by Mr. Bates, and fomid a home in his rich collection. 

 Mr. Chennell, shortly after his return to India, met with an accident, which ultimately caused his death ; but he sliould be 

 always remembered as an enthusiastic and assiduous collector in Entomology. 



,„.,,. + ^ ^''™' *>^ '^® two-fold female nature of Siva— (Bhairvi Durga)— a malignant being delighting in blood.— (Monier 

 Wilhams). 



