ORIENTAL CICADIDJE. lOT 



Var. a. 



Pronotura with a distinct central pale longitudinal fascia. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Amboina, Suyckerbuyk (Bruss. Mu8.). 



Var. b. (Tab. III., figs. 19, a, h.) 



Tegmina and wings with the black coloration much increased ; tegmina only exhibiting three 

 irregular and angulated greenish spots (sometimes a small subapical one) ; wings with more than the 

 apical half black, enclosing three pale bluish spots. 



Hab. — C0NTINENTA1+ India : Assam, south of the Brahmapootra (Chennell — coll. Dist.). 



This species has apparently a very wide distribution ; and the locaHty, Amboina, is the 

 most eastern record of any species of the genus with which I am acquainted. 



(). Gaeana atkinsoni.* (Tab. IX., figs. 10, a, h.) 



Gaana atkinsoni, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. iii. p. 49 (1889). 



<7 . Head and thorax above black ; eyes and a transverse fascia between them, posterior margin of 

 pronotum, two linear obconical spots on disk of anterior margin of mesonotum with its lateral margins, 

 and the cruciform elevation, ochraceous ; abdomen above and below ochraceous. Head beneath, sternum 

 and legs black ; apical half of face, a transverse spot between face and eyes, and disk and margins of 

 sternum, ochraceous. Opercula black, their base and outer margin ochraceous. 



Tegmina black ; the venation, a narrow, oblique, transverse fascia near base, and a straight and wider 

 transverse fascia near centre completely crossing the tegmina, ochraceous ; two subapical spots and a 

 similar spot in the sixth apical area reddish-ochraceous. Wings bright carmine-red ; apical and outer 

 margins and a subapical transverse fasciate spot black. 



The rostrum reaches the posterior coxse, the anterior femora are armed with two strong spines, and 

 the body is large and robust. 



Long. escl. tegm. <? , 35 millim. Exp. tegm. 85 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India: Karwar (coll. Atkinson and coll. Dist.). 



To the present time I have no knowledge of G. atkinsoni from any other locality than the 

 above, nor have I seen a specimen in any other of the numerous Indian collections I have 

 been able to examine. 



7. Gaeana octonotata. (Tab. III., figs. 12, a, b.) 



Cicddii S-mtiita, Westwood, Arc. Ent. ii. p. 34, t. 57, f. 2 (1843). 



Gwanu octonotata, Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 221, n. 33 (1885) ; ibid. vol. Iv. p. 156. n. 27 (1886). 



Huechys picta. Walk. Ins. Saund. Horn. p. 28(1858); Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. Iv. p. 155, n. 23 (1886). 



<? . Head, pronotum and mesonotum blackish ; head with the basal margin of front, basal margin of 

 vertex, and the eyes, dull dark ochraceous ; basal margin and a transverse basal spot to pronotum, the 

 lateral margins and two central angulated fasci.e to mesonotum,— connected posteriorly with the cruciform 

 elevation, — and the anterior and posterior angles of the cruciform elevation, dull dark ochraceous. Abdomen 

 reddish-ochraceous, with a central black longitudinal fascia. Head beneath, sternum and legs blackish ; 

 margins of face and abdomen beneath ochraceous ; base, a lateral series of spots, and base of sixth 

 abdominal segment, blackish. 



Tegmina dark, shining fuscous ; the costal membrane, postcostal area and venation ochraceous ; and 

 with four pale ochraceous spots, situate one near base, two at centre, and one near costal apex. Wings 

 sanguineous, with the apical and outer margins — not extending to anal area — fuscous. 



' Named after my late entomological friend and correspondent Mr. E. T. Atkinson, who tirst forwarded me speoimcnR of 

 the species, and whose subsequent death is much lamented as a great loss to Indian entomological science. 



