ORIENTAL CICADIDJE. 61 



" Head wanting ; body brownish-tawny ; fore-cheat broadest near the base of the fore-wings ; scutcheon 

 adorned with two black stripes, furrows blackish; hind-scutcheon tawny, with a black hind border, 

 widened, slightly angular and armed with a moderate sized tooth on each side ; scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest adorned with five black stripes ; the side pairs obliciue, the inner pair short, the outer pair much 

 interrupted ; hind border tawny, very slightly excavated ; breast tawny ; abdomen obconical, much longer 

 than the chest, tawny beneath ; opercula blackish ; drums tawny, very large, more than half the length of 

 the abdomen, narrow at the base, slightly overlapping towards their tips ; legs tawny ; fore-shanks, feet, 

 and tips of the other shanks darker ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three black teeth, 

 of these two are long, and one is very small ; wings colourless ; vems black, tawny towards the base and 

 along the fore border." 



" Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 36 lines." 



Ilab. — CoREA (Belcher — Brit. Mus.). 



35. Cosmopsaltria spathulata. (Tab. VI., fig. 3, a, h.) 



C. (Cusmopsaltria) !<jn,thul,ii,i, Stal, Ofv. Yct.-Ak. F(irb. 1870, p. 709, u. 1. 



A typical specimen belonging to the Stockholm Museum is here figm-ed, and therefore 

 Stal's original description is also given : — 



"Remote griseo-sericea, olivacea-flavescens, in ferrugineum leviter vergens, scutello dorsoque 

 abdominis obscurioribus, limbo thoracis pallescente ; maculis capitis, vittis duabus mediis ad limbum 

 posticum abbreviatis thoracis, vittis angustis tribus, lateralibus ante medium, media pone medium 

 abbreviata, maculisque parvis duabus posterioribus scutelli nigris; tegminibus absque sordide vitreis, 

 immaculatis, venis olivaceo-flavescentihus, pone medium fuscis." 



" ^, 2 . Long. 26—28, lat. 9i— 10, exp. tegm. 78—80 mill." 



Hab.— Philippine Isles (Semper— Stockh. Mus.). 



As the species is here figured it is unnecessary to give Stfd's structtiral diagnosis, the 

 principal features being carefully pourtrayed. 



36. Cosmopsaltria operculissima. (Tab. V., fig. 5, a, b.) 



Cosmopsaltria operculissima, Distant, Trans. Ent. See. 1881, p. 641. 



S . Body above castaneous. Head with lateral margins of front, lateral margins of vertex, area of 

 ocelli, and an irregular spot between ocelli and eyes, black. Pronotum with two central, longitudinal, 

 slightly curved, black fascia>, concave externally, a small curved fascia on each side of disk, and the 

 obbque strife also black. Mesonotum very dark castaneous, with two obconical spots on anterior margin, 

 denoted by black margins, and with some very indistinct darker shadings on lateral sides of disk. 

 Cruciform elevation at base pale castaneous. Abdomen somewhat darker on disk and near lateral 

 margins. Body beneath much paler, and clothed with ochraceous pubescence ; face castaneous, with the 

 centre black ; opercula ochraceous, with a broad subapical fuscous band, both above and below. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; veins, costal membrane, basal area, and claval margin of tegmina, 



castaneous. 



Abdomen very short, less than length from front of head to base of mesonotum; head broad, 

 including eyes, equal to width of pronotum at base ; opercula very large, about reaching apex of abdomen, 

 and abutting on each side of apical lateral margins ; they are narrow, and situated wide apart at base, 

 narrowed and concave on each side about basal abdominal segment, and then broadly widened and convex 

 on each side, particularly so inwardly, where they considerably overlap on disk of abdomen. Apices 

 broad, and somewhat angularly rounded. Face with a broad central sulcation, and the sides strongly and 

 transversely striated. Rostrum about reaching posterior coxte. 



