ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 97: 



aa. Opcrcnlii not half the length of the abdomen. 



7. Cicada pontianaka. (Tab. V., fig. 7, a, h.) 



Ciaitid jiimtidnohi, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. scr. 0, vol. i. p. 298 (1888). 



Head ami thorax above dark ochraceous. Head with the front laterally striated with black; 

 vertex with the area of the ocelli and the lateral areas black. Pronotum with two short, central, black 

 fascire at base, which widen anteriorly to behind the eyes ; the posterior margin olivaceous. Mesonotum 

 with two central obconical spots, between which is a central spot widened at base and a curved spot on 

 each lateral area, all black. Abdomen above dark castaneous, shaded with pitchy suffusions and sparingly 

 and palely pilose. Body beneath ochraceous ; femora and tibia; tinged with castaneous, — excluding apices 

 of femora and bases of tibia? ; opcrcula pale castaneous, the margins palely pilose. Abdomen beneath dark 

 castaneous, the margins palely pilose. 



Tcgmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation dark brownish ; tegmina with the apical area shaded 

 with bronzy reflexions ; the costal membrane castareous, excepting apical half, which is black ; base 

 greenish, transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas narrowly infuscated. 



The face is somewhat flat and deeply transversely striate, excepting a central, longitudinal, levigate 

 line ; the rostrum just passes the intermediate coxse ; the opercula do not extend beyond the basal 

 abdominal segment, have their lateral margins somewhat straight, their inner margins very slightly 

 overlapping, and their apices somewhat broadlj' rounded. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 32 millim. Exp. tegm. 97 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula: Perak (Doherty— coll. Dist.). Malayan Archipelago: Sumatra (Leyden 

 Mus. ; Bock— coll. Dist.). Java (Piepers— Lejden Mus.). Borneo: Pontianak (Bruss. Mus.) ; Kina Balu 

 Mt. CWhitehead— coll. Dist.). Sulu Islands : Job (coll. Dist.). 



The females of this species seem to be universally much smaller than the males. 



8. Cicada germana. (Tab. VII., fig. 2, a, h.) 



Cicada genmva, Distant, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, ser. 2a, vol. vi. p. 457, t. iv. f. 3, «, h (1888). 



Allied to C. pontianaka, Dist., but differing by the much paler coloration, the abdomen above 

 testaceous blackif-h at base, and with a somewhat obscure narrow central longitudinal dark fascia; 

 tegmina and wings pale hyaline with bluish reflexions, the first with the costal membrane greenish, and 

 the transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas not infuscated as in C. pontianaka. 



This species also differs from C. pontianaka by the rostrum only reaching the intermediate cosse 

 and by the more tumid and less strongly striated face. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 30 millim. Exp. tegm. 85 millim. 



Hab. — Burma: Teinzo (Fea — Genoa Mus.). 



9. Cicada polyhymnia. (Tab. XII., fig. 4, a, b.) 



Fidicina polyhi/nmiii. Walker, List Horn. i. p. 94 (1850). 



"Body ferruginous; head nearly as broad as the fore-chest, adorned with two irregular and 

 interrupted black bands, one on the crown, the other on the face, which is rather prominent and very 

 convex; mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips; eyes prominent ; feelers black : fore-chest 

 a little narrower before than behind; furrows, sides and hind border of the scutcheon blackish; bind- 

 scutcheon pale ferruginous, nearly as broad in the middle as on each side, where it forms two obtuse 

 angles ; scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with three very broad obconical pitchy stripes ; hind border 

 very slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, pitchy, longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 ferruginous : opercula close, pitchy ; drums tawny, large, meeting beneath, less than half the length of the 



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