ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 99 



small spot on each side and a sublateral and somewhat indistinct black fascia ; a black spot in front of 

 each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation. Abdomen above with the posterior segmental margins 

 black. Body beneath thickly clothed with greyish pile ; face with a central black fascia. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation very dark olivaceous or brown ; tegmina with the 

 costal membrane olivaceous. 



Long. excl. tegm. ? , 28 millim. Exp. tegm. 82 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Borneo, Elopura (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



1'2. Cicada flammata, n. sp. (Tab. XIII., fig. 15, a, h.) 



$ . Head, mesonotum and abdomen black, the pronotum reddish-ochraceous. Head with a spot at 

 base and apex of front, a spot at anterior angles of vertex and a spot beliind eyes reddish-ochraceous ; 

 eyes ochraceous. Pronotum with two slender central black fasciae, narrowed, angulated and joined 

 posteriorly ; inner edge of lateral and posterior margins, outer edge of posterior margin and edge at 

 lateral angles, black. Mesonotum with two central obconical spots, the margins of which are reddish- 

 ochraceous ; the cruciform elevation (excepting centre and angular apices) also reddish-ochraceous. 

 Abdomen with faint traces of a double longitudinal series of white pilose spots. Body beneath dark 

 castaneous, the sternum thickly clothed with greyish-white pile ; space between eyes and face black, 

 enclosing an ochraceous spot on anterior margin ; legs ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous and fuscous. Tegmina with the base — not 

 extending beyond basal cell — ochraceous, a black linear streak extending along inner edge of costal 

 membrane, which is ochraceous ; transverse veins at the bases of the second and third apical areas, and 

 sometimes the interior of the upper apical area, infuscated ; wings with the base narrowly ochraceous, and 

 with an inner and an outer claval ochraceous streak. 



Long. excl. tegm. 5 , 40 millim. Exp. tegm. 120 millim. 



Hab. — Japan : Yesso and Tokoe (coll. Dist.). 



One mutilated male and two female specimens of this species have been examined, the 

 male, unfortunately, with its opcrcula extracted, and consequently the females alone have 

 been described. 



C. fiammata is allied to G. leechi, Dist., and C. bihamata, Motsch. 



Species oiUj laiuirn to the icriter hi/ description. 

 13. Cicada semperi. 



Cicada {(Itremistira) sempen. Still, Ofs'. Vet.-Ak.Fiirli. 1S70. p. 715, n. 8. 



" Superne croceo nigroque variegata, subtus olivaceo-davescens, dorso abdominis nigro, griseo 

 sericeo, in dorso et lateribus segmentorum iutermediorum griseo-ferrugineo-sericeo ; tegminibus alisque 

 vitreis, venis olivaceo-flavescentibus, apicem versus fuscis, areola basali extus olivaceo-flavescente." 



" ? . Long. 39, lat. 17, exp. tegm. 138 mill." 



" Prsecedentibus (C. tagalica, Stal) multo major, tborace anterius latiore, ibidem capiti itquali differt. 

 Caput nigrum, lituris nonuullis verticis prope ocellos, maculis duabus maguis apicalibus jugorum, basi 

 vittaque media percurrente frontis, apice genarum, basi lororum vittaquc clypei croceis ; rugis transversis 

 medio interruptis calloque oblongo subbasali Isevi distinctis. Thorax ante augulos laterales paullo 

 angustatus, lateribus anterius parallelis, impressione laterali anteriore distinctissima ; croceus vittis 

 imprcssionum margincque onnii disci nigris. Scutellum croceum, maculis obtriangularibns e basi emissis 

 quattuor lituraque magna discoidali litteram T reversam (x) simulante nigris, maculis lateralibus 

 ferrugineo-vittatis. Pedes posteriores ferrugiuei, femoribus subtus uigricantibus. Femora antica olivaceo- 



