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bb. Abdomen not ornamented with longitudinal series of spots. 



2. Cicada bihamata. (Tab. XII., fig. 8, a, h.) 



Cicada hihumata, MotscLulsky, Etudes Entomol. 18C1, p. 2-1. 



S . Head black ; a spot at base of front, tbe anterior marginal angles of VL-rtex, and a spot a little 

 before posterior margin of eyes, ochraceous ; ocelli and eyes dull ocbraceous. Pronotum castaneous, its 

 margins ochraceous ; a central black fascia containing a lanceolate ocbraceous spot and with a wide basal 

 spot of tbe same colour ; lateral margins inwardly and posterior margin inwardly and outwardly black, 

 tbe posterior marginal angle and an oblique spot just before it also black. Mesonotum black, with two* 

 discal angulated ocbraceous fascim united at anterior margin ; tbe lateral margins and the lateral sides 

 and angles of the basal cruciform elevation ochraceous. Abdomen above blackish castaneous; apical 

 segments centrally marked with ochraceous. Body beneath blackish, a spot on anterior margin of face, 

 a marginal spot between face and eyes, lateral margins of the prosternum, legs, opercula and segmental 

 margins, ochraceous ; legs with some blackish markings. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline. Tegmina with the venation ochraceous and fuscous; basal cell 

 almost— sometimes partly— black ; transverse veins at the bases of the second, thu-d, fourth, fifth and 

 seventh apical areas infuscated ; base of claval area ocbraceous. Wings with tbe base narrowly ochraceous. 



The opercula about half, or a little more than half, the length of the abdomen, are divergent, 

 with their apices broad, and convexly rounded, their outer margins concavely sinuate and black at 

 outer basal margin. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 33 miUim. Exp. tegm. 8.S millim. 



Hab.— Japan (Pryer & Lewis— coll. Dist.) ; Tokoe (coll. Dist.). 



aa. Opercula short. 



c. Abdomen ornamented with longitudinal series of whitish pilose spots. 



3. Cicada sinensis. (Tab. XIII., fig. 3, a, h.) 



Cicada sinensis. Distant, 'Entomologist,' vol. xxiii. p. 90 (1890). 



$ . Head and pronotum greenish ochraceous ; head with a broad black fascia between the eyes ; 

 pronotum with two short narrow discal black fasciae near anterior margin and a black band across the 

 posterior margin near- each lateral area. Mesonotum castaneous, with a central tri-lauceolate greenish- 

 ochraceous spot with the surrounding area black, a lateral black fascia on each side outwardly margined 

 with greenish-ochraceous, the centre and apices of the basal cruciform elevation black. Abdomen black, 

 with two longitudinal and slightly oblique macular white fascia on each lateral area; outer margins 

 of the tj-mpanal coverings ochraceous. Body beneath pale ocbraceous, thickly clothed with greyish jiile ; 

 legs greenish-ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation greenish inwardly, fuscous outwardly ; tegmina with 

 the costal membrane ochraceous and its outer margin pale sanguineous, the transverse veins at the bases 

 of the second and third apical areas infuscated ; extreme bases of the tegmina and wings pale sanguineous. 



The opercula are short, not extendmg beyond the basal segment of the abdomen, convexly rounded 

 externally, and slightly overlapping at their inner margins. 



Long. excl. tegm. <J and ? , 29 to 32 millim. Exp. tegm. 80 to 85 millim. 



Hab.— China : Chia Kou Ho (Pratt— coll. Dist.). 



B. Tegmina clear and unsjxitted. 



a. Opercula about half the length of the abdomen. 



4. Cicada coronata. (Tab. XII., fig. 11, a, b.) 



Cicada coronata, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. iii. p. 52 (1889). 



<7 . Body above ocbraceous ; anterior margin of front, a broad transverse fascia at base of head, 

 extending between and bebmd tbe eyes, a narrow fascia near lateral margins of pronotum, and a small 



