•98 ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 



abdomen : legs tawny ; feet and fore-shanks pitchy ; claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three pitchy 

 teeth, two of which are large and one extremely small." 



"Wings tinged with tawny; fore border ferruginous as far as the brand, pitchy from thence to the 

 tip ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; primitive areolet, fore membrane, flaps at the base and along 

 part of the hind border tawny." 



" Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 42 lines." 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Philippine Islands (Cuming — Brit. Mus.). 



The type of this species contained in the collection of the British Museum is alone 

 known to the writer, and is here figured. 



13. Cicada viridis. (Tab. XII., fig. 19, a, h.) 



Tettit/oiiia viridis, Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. p. 39, n. 28 (1803), excl. syn.* 



Cicada bimaculata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. p. 756, n. 46 (1790); Germ.' Then. Ent. Arch. ii. p. 7, n. 84 (1830); 



Germ. SUb. Eev. Ent. ii. p. 61, n. 13 (1834) ; Stal, Berl. Eut. Zeit. x. p. 171 (1866). 

 Cicada atrovirens, Guer. Voy. Coq. Ins. p. 182 (1830). 



Cicada viridis, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 5, n. 1 (1869) ; Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. ix. p. 325 (1892). 

 Cicada {Chremistica) viridis, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 714, n. 1. 

 Dundubia mixta, Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. xxiv. p. 128 (1891). 



^ . Body above dark castaneous. Head with the base and striations to front, a broad fascia between 

 eyes, widened at ocelli, hinder margins of eyes, and anterior angles of vertex black. Pronotum with two 

 central fasciae outwardly angulated anteriorly and posteriorly, and the furrows, black ; lateral and posterior 

 margins dull, dark ochraceous. Mesonotum with a large semi-lanceolate spot, its base in front of cruciform 

 elevation and gradually narrowed to anterior margin, on each side of this two obconical spots (the 

 innermost smallest, the outermost broken), and the posterior lateral margins black. Abdomen with discal 

 transverse segmental black fasciae, and with a large greyish-white tomentose spot on each side of the second 

 segment. Head beneath, sternum, legs and opercula pale ochraceous ; abdomen pale castaneous, the 

 margins of the abdominal segments narrowly pale ochraceous; rostrum (excluding base), anterior tibiae 

 and tarsi, the apices of the intermediate tibiae, and a transverse fascia at base of abdomen, black. 



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

 membrane greenish, the postcostal area blackish, basal cell nearly totally pale greenish, a small basal spot 

 and the inner margin to clavus, black. 



The opercula are very small, overlapping at centre, and not passing the basal abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. 3' , 30 millim. Exp. tegm. 80 to 85 millim. 



Hab. — Ceylon (Green — Brit. Mus.). Malayan Archipelago : Java (Guer.) ; Philii^pine Isles (Semper 

 — Stockh. Mu&.). 



This species has a superficial resemblance to the Australian Psaltoda harrisi, Leach. 



Species hnouii at lyrcsent hij the female sex only. 

 11. Cicada elopurina. (Tab. XII., fig. 5, a, b.) 



Cicada elopurina. Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 297 (1888). 



2 . Body above castaneous. Head with a fascia across front, a spot near base of antennae, the area 

 of the ocelli, and a spot behind the eyes black. Pronotum with two central black fasciae, the posterior 

 margin more or less olivaceous. Mesonotum with two central, incurved, black spots starting from anterior 

 margin, between which is a black fascia crossing the whole of disk ; beyond the central incurved spots is a 



* " Patria Amerioam meridionalem incorrect! citat Fabricius." — Stal (Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 5). 



