OniESTAL CICADIIkE. 03 



Having, however, now described the genus, it becomes necessary to incorporate this species, 

 which is very distinct, even in the female sex, by its small size, and by the white lateral 

 margins to the pronotum. 



18. Cryptotympana tondana. (Tab. XIII., fig. 13, a, b.) 



Fidicina tondmm, Walker, Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. x. p. 92, n. 20 (18C7). 



" Female. Green, very stout. Head nearly :is broad as the thorax ; an irregular and much excavated 

 black band between the eyes ; some transverse black streaks on each side in front, the intermediate space 

 tawny and longitudinally striated ; some black dots near the hind border, which is also black. First 

 segment of the prothorax mostly black-bordered, with a black stripe whicli does not extend to the hind 

 border, and is between two u-regular black stripes ; these are imited on the hind border and are much 

 recurved ; hind segment with a black triangular spot, which rests on the fore border. Mesothorax with 

 four large obconical black spots, which rest on the fore border, the outer paii* much longer than the inner 

 pair. Abdomen black above. Legs piceous ; knees green ; fore femora much incrassated." 



" Wings hyaline, slightly cinereous ; veins black." 



" Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 60 lines." 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago: Celebes, Tondano (Wallace — Brit. Mus.). 



This species is only known to the writer by the female typical specimen contained in the 

 National Collection ; the usual course of figuring that specimen and reproducing the original 

 description is therefore again followed. 



Species nnk>wicn to the writer. 

 19. Cryptotympana immaculata. 



fjV«(/a inniuiiuhitii, Olivier, Euc. Meth. v. p. 752, n. 29, t. 112, f. 7 (1790); Sign. Rev. & Mag. Zool. 1819, 



p. 410, n. G. 

 Cryptottjm)iana immuculatu, St;il, Auu. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 4, vol. i. p. 613 (18G1) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. 



p. 231, n. 79 (1885). 



This species seems to be most nearly allied to C. intermedia, Sign., but differs by the clear 

 and unspotted tegmina and wings. It was recorded as from Java ; Mr. Atkinson inchukd it 

 in his list of Indian Homoptera through an erroneous identification by Walker. 



Genus CICADA.* 



Cicada, Liunrcus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 704 (17GG); Amyot & Serville, Hist, des Hem. p. 473, n. 874 (ISIS); 



Still, Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. ser. 4, vol. i. p. 614 (18G1) ; Hem. Afr. iv. p. 6 (1866) ; Dist. Biol. Centr. 



Am. Ebynch. Horn. p. G (1881). 

 Subgen. Chrcmistien , Stiil, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1870, p. 714. 

 Subgen. Macrotristria, Still, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. 1870, p. 714. 

 Subgen. Diceroprocta, Stul, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forli. 1870, p. 714. 



* "The word 'Cicada' has been derived from ciccum, a thin skin, and also from cito, quickly, and cadere, to fall, 

 a compomid siijiKestive of their being short-lived ; while aStiv, to sing, is stated to signify intrinsically a soun 1 produced by 

 motion of a pelUcle. A Cicada in ancient days was the emblem of mnsic among the Egyptians and Greiks, and according to 

 Polybius, its effigy was struck on the coins of races who clamied superiority in that ai-t, as the Mosseuians in AicaiUa, and 

 Locrians in Italy" (A. H. Swinton, ' Insect Variety,' p. 24). 



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