58 ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 



28. Cosmopsaltria minahassse.* (Tab. VI., fig. 17, a, h.) 



Cosmopsaltria minaliassm. Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 294 (1888). 

 Dunduhia donjca, Walk, (nee Boisd.), List Horn. i. p. 47 (1850). 



^ . Body above pale obscure olivaceous, more or less covered with pale ochraceous pile. Head with 

 the front anteriorly striated and with two apical, black, central spots ; vertex with some scattered black 

 spots, the ocelli reddish. Pronotum with a central, longitudinal, ochraceous fascia, bordered with black 

 and with an irregularly rounded black linear spot near each lateral margin. Mesonotum with seven 

 black spots, three central and two near each lateral margin, and a black spot in front of anterior angles 

 of cruciform elevation. Tympana with grey pilosity ; abdomen above also much shaded with greyish pile. 

 Body beneath greyish, with an olivaceous tinge; apical portion of the face black ; apices of the femora and 

 tibiae and the tarsi dark fuscous ; apical abdominal segment infuscated, anal appendage with a central 

 fuscous fascia. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, venation brownish, ochraceous at the base of upper ulnar area, and 

 the transverse veins at the bases of the second and third apical areas broadly infuscated. 



The opercula are pale olivaceous, somewhat gradually narrowing towards apices, which are obtusely 

 angulated and reaching the apex of the fourth abdominal segment ; rostrum reaching the second abdominal 

 segment, its apex fuscous. 



Long. excl. tegm. 35 millim. Exp. tegm. 100 millim. 



Hab.— Malayan Archipelago : Celebes, Menado (coll. Dist.) ; Ceram (Brit. Mus.). 



A specimen of this species from Ceram was identified by Mr. Walker as Dunduhia donjca, 

 Boisd., and tlms catalogued by him. 



aaaa. Opercula short. 



29. Cosmopsaltria sita. (Tab. IV., fig. 5, a, b.) 



Cosmopsidtna sita, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 636 ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 226, n. 55 (1885). 



,? . Head : front with a central fascia furcate anteriorly, and an oblique spot on each side at the 

 base ; vertex with a large triangular spot enclosing ocelli, and an irregular longitudinal fascia near inner 

 margin of eyes, black. Pronotum with two central longitudinal fascife joined and rounded near posterior 

 margin, widened and angulated near anterior margin ; on each side of these is a small discal waved line, 

 and two oblique fascife near lateral margins (the outer one submarginal and rounded), black. Mesonotum 

 with a central longitudinal fascia ; on each side of this a clavate, smaller and suboblique fascia, followed 

 by two linear spots on anterior margin, and a discal waved irregular fascia on each side. Abdomen with 

 the segments (excluding first) more or less piceous at base, and with a lateral segmental row of piceous 

 spots. Body beneath ochraceous and unicolorous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; tegmina with the venation of basal half ochraceous, and apical 

 half fuscous ; transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly infuscated ; transverse 

 veins at bases of first and second ulnar areas fuscous, ochraceous at junction. 



The head, including eyes, is considerably narrower than base of pronotum ; the face is only moderately 

 convex, sulcated from beyond the middle, the sides distinctly striated (the face has also an oblong spot bordered 

 with black at base, and the upper striations are also of that colour). The opercula reach the third abdominal 

 segment ; they are moderately truncate outwardly, widened and angulated inwardly (but not meeting) on first 

 abdominal segment, and then diverging and narrowing to apex, which is obtuse and rounded ; the inner margin 

 is slightly convex. Rostrum reaching a little beyond posterior coxae. Anterior femora with two strong spines. 



Long. excl. tegm. 24 millim. Exp. tegm. 73 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India: Bombay Province (coll. Dist.) ; Karwar (Calc. Mus. & coll. Dist.). 



••= " The word Minahassa means a country that has been formed by the binding together of a number of territories into 

 one. The principal word in it is derived from ' asa,' meaning ' one ' ; the verb ' mahasa ' signiiies ' to join into one,' whilst 

 the prefix 'ni' turns the word into a substantive." — S. J. Hickson, 'A NatinaHst in North Celebes,' p. 205. 



