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30. Cosmopsaltria diminuta. (Tab. XII., lig. 14, a, h.) 



Dmiduhiii diiiiiniiVi, Walker, List Uom. i. Y}. 74, n. 3G (1850| ; ibid. iv. tab. 1, f. 1 (1852). 



Head and thorax above dark ochraceous ; head much suffused with dark fuscous, eyes castaneoua ; 

 pronotum with two central longitudinal black linear fasciae, on each side of which is a small black spot, 

 and a black patch occupying each lateral area; mesonotum with two central obconical black spots on 

 anterior margin, between which is a central black longitudinal line, a large spot occupying each lateral 

 area, and a small spot in front of each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation, black. Abdomen 

 above ochraceous, much suffused with black on disk, the apex and some lateral marginal spots also black. 

 Body beneath, opcrcula and legs ochraceous ; face with the lateral striations black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, tlie venation fuscous ; tegmina with the transverse veins at the 

 bases of the second and third apical areas infuscated, and in some specimens some faint and small fuscous 

 marginal spots at apices of the longitudinal veins to the upper apical areas. 



Opercula small, their inner margins oblique, their apices broadly rounded and reaching the third 

 abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. <y , 19 to 20 miUim. Exp. tegm. 50 to 55 millim. 



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



This is another species now locahsed for the lirst time, as Walker's type was without 

 a habitat. 



B. Head broad, the front not prominently produced. 



e. Opercula broad, more or less constricted on each side near base, their apices broadly rounded. 

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



31. Cosmopsaltria doryca. (Tab. VII., fig. 1, a, h.) 



Cicadu donjca, Boisduval, Voy. Astrol. ii. p. 609, 1, Hem. t. 10, f. 3 (1832). 

 Cosmopsaltria doryca, Stal, Berl. Eut. Zeit. x. p. 170 (18CG). 



Body above brownish-ochraceous ; head with the ocelli narrowly margined with black ; pronotum 

 with two central longitudinal black linear fascia3, rounded and united posteriorly, the outer sutures also 

 black ; mesonotum with five black fascije, consisting of one central straight and crossing disk, on each side 

 of this a shorter curved fascia, and a longer slightly waved fascia on each lateral area, a black spot on 

 apices of each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation and a similarlj^ coloured spot on anterior 

 margin between the two outer fascia; abdomen above with a central black spot at base, followed by 

 a central linear spot on the following segment, and a black spot at base of each tympanal covermg, lateral 

 margins more or less greyishly pilose. Body beneath ochraceous ; apices of the tibife, anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi, apex of the rostrum, and the inner and apical margins of the opercula, black ; abdomen 

 beneath brownish-ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation brownish-ochraceous ; tegmina with the costal membrane 

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



The opercula are broad, concavely sinuate on each side near base, and then more or less convexly 

 rounded to apices, which are 1)road and obtusely rounded, and extend to the anterior margin of the fifth 

 abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. J* , 35 millim. Exp. tegm. 105 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : New Guinea, Amberbaki (coll. Dist.) ; Mansinam and Awck Jobi 

 (Bruijn* — Genoa Mus.) ; Dorey (Voy. de L'Astrolabe). 



■:■■ " Nogociant I'l Tornate" — " En 1875-76, lo na-\-iro I'l vapeur do rEtat Soerabaja, coinmaiulo par le capitaine-lientcnant 

 P. Swaan, fit un voyage trcs important ii la Nouvelle-Guinee. Cc navire avail a son boril lo nsiilent Je Tcruatc, A. J. 

 Langevcldt van Hcmert, deux princes de Tidore, le coUbre naturalistc O. Beccari et M. Bniiju." — rriuce Roland Bonaparte, 

 ' Les derniers Voyages des Ncerlandais a la Nouvelle-Giiinoe,' p. 3 (1885). 



