ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 87 



Cicada atrata, Oliv. Enc. Mcth. v. p. 755, u. 40 (1790). 



Cicada ni'jra, Oliv. Enc. Mc'tli. v. p. 750, n. 17 (1790). 



Cicada pustitlata, Oliv. Enc. Moth. v. p. 750, n. IH (1790); Walk. List Horn. i. p. 118, n. 39 (1850). 



Cicada atra, Sign. Rev. k Mag. Zool. 18-19, p. 406, n. 1, tab. 10, fig. 1. 



Fidicina atrata. Walk. List Horn. i. p. 89, n. 16 (1850). 



Fidivina Inibo, Walk. List Horn. i. p. 82, n. 7 (1850). 



Cryptotijmpana bubo, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 483. 



Cnii>toli/mpana atrata, Still, Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr. S(5r. 4, vol. i. p. 013 (1861). 



Crijptutijmpana niijra, Sttll, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. G, n. 1 (18G9) ; Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. 1870, p. 714, n. 1. 



Stoll, Cig. fig. 118. 



S ■ Body above black ; eyes ochraceous ; mesonotum with two obscure central linear pale castaneous 

 obconieal spots, the cruciform elevation also castaneous. Body beneath black; head with the central 

 sulcation, apex and lateral margins of face, the outer and posterior margins of opercula, margins of 

 abdommal segments, and some scattered sternal spots, ochraceous. Legs ochraceous, femoral streaks and 

 bases and apices of tibise black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous and fuscous; tegmina with the costal 

 membrane ochraceous, its extreme basal costal edge black, the post-costal area black; less than basal 

 third of tegmina (excluding venation) black ; basal cell black, with an ochraceous spot. Wings with less 

 than basal half black. 



Body robust, but moderately elongate ; opercula not half the length of the body, their outer margins 

 oblique and slightly convex, their inner margins strongly oblique to apices, which are broadly and 

 obtusely angulated. 



Long. excl. tegm. 3 , 44 millim. Exp. tegm. 125 millim. 



Hab.— Malayan Aeohipelago : Philippine Isles (Semper — Stockh. Mus.). China (Calc. Mus., Bruss. 

 Mus., coll. Sign., and coll. Dist.) ; Hong Kong (Bowi-ing — Brit. Mus.). Japan (coll. Dist.)- 



Considerable confusion has hitherto existed in the synonymy of this species. The late 

 Dr. Stal was the first in his endeavour to clear its position, and in his ' Hemiptera Fabriciana ' 

 he placed the species under the name of C. nigra, Oliv., with the Tett. pustulatu, Fabr., as a 

 synonym. This was owing to his not going behind the ' Eutomologia Systematica, ic.,' 

 of Fabricius, bearing the date 1794, but as the species was described in the * Mantissa 

 Insectorum, &c.,' of 1787, it clearly has priority over Olivier's description. Stul also correctly 

 writes " T. pustulatce America meridionalem incorrecte citat Fabricius." 



Under the name of Cicada atra, the late Dr. Signoret recorded this species as from Java,* 

 a locality that at present must be accepted with some doubt. 



D. Tc'ijmina with less than basal fourth opaque and blackish. 



8. Cryptotympana corvus. (Tab. X., fig. 11, a, b.) 



Fidicina cornts, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 86, n. 11 (1850) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. p. 231, n. 82 (188.5). 

 Cryptotympana corvm, Stsil, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 483. 

 Fidicina invariam. Walk. Ins. Saund., llom. p. 11 (1858). 



<? . Body above black ; eyes ochraceous ; lateral margins of the abdomen fringed with ochraceous 

 pile. Body beneath black; a spot at basal margin of face, anterior femora (excluding bases and apices), 

 intermediatu and posterior femora and tibia' ^excluding bases and apices), opercula (excluding basal margins 

 or some basal streaks), and a broad sublateral fascia on each side of abdomen, ochraceous. 



* Rev. & Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 407. 



