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Long. excl. tegm. <? and 2 , 19 to 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 48 to 65 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Akcdipelago, Sumatra: Tapanoeli (Van Lansberg — Leyd. Mus.). Java (Piepers" — 

 Leyd. Mus.); Kederi (Von Hiigel— coll. Dist.) ; Pekalonga, Samarang (Van Lansberg — Brass. Mus.); 

 Buitenzorg (Ferrari — Genoa Mus.). Amboina : Suyckerbuyk (Bruss. Mus.). 



Var. a. 



J . Head and mesonotum totally black ; abdomen with a central dorsal blackish fascia ; wings 

 very dark shining fuscous. 



Hab. — Malayan ARcnirELAOo, J.\va : Tengar Mts. (coll. List.). 



This is an insular species, is very common in Java, Init not found on the adjacent 

 continent. For the variety described above I am indebted to Dr. Bergroth of Finland. 



3. Huechys phoenicura. (Tab. III., figs. (5, a, //.) 



Cicada phmiicura, Germar, Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 7G, n. 53 (1834). 



Huechys pJumicurn, Still, Oft. Vet.-Ak. Forh. IHTO, p. 707, u. 1 ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 219, n. 25 

 (1885). 



Huechys stiffusa, Dist. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. G, vol. i. p. 291 (1888). 



<? . Body and legs black ; front and face to head, two large spots to mesonotum and the abdomen 

 sanguineous ; base of abdomen narrowly black. 



Tegmina blackish, greyish-white beyond the ulnar areas; lower apical area margined with Idackish, 

 upper ulnar area sometimes greyish-white. Wings very pale fuscous, the base and venation blackish. 



The rostrum slightly passes the intermediate coxa3 ; the face is moderately compressed, but less 

 strongly striate than in the two preceding species. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 21 millim. Exp. tegm. 53 millim. 



Hab.— Malayan Archipelago: Java (coll. Dist.). Philippine Isles (Semper— Stockh. Mus.). 



According to Mr. Atkinson this species is " reported from India, Sikkim,"t but at present 

 it seems extremely doubtful that it is found on the Continent at all. I certainly have seen it 

 in none of the many collections examined from India, Burma, Tenasserim, or the Malay 

 Peninsula, and it is probably an insular species, I have a specimen labelled " Java," and it is 

 undoubtedly found in the Philippines. It is at present very rare in collections. 



4. Huechys vidua. (Tab. III., figs. 9, a, h.) 



Cicada (Huechys) ridiui, White, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xvii. p. 332 (184G). 



S . Body and legs black ; front and face to head and two largo spots to mesonotum bright pale 

 shining ochraceous ; lateral areas of anal appendage. and disk of abdomen beneath sangumeous. 



Tegmina dull, opaciue, black ; wings pale hyaline with bluish reflexions, the venation blackish, and 

 the apical, outer and inner margins narrowly pale fuscous. 



The face is prominently longitudinally sulcate, and the transverse striations are profound and broadly 

 separated. 



The rostrum reaches the intermediate coxse. 



Long. excl. tegm. ? , 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 53 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula: Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



■: Attached to a Javanese Fpecimen thus Inhcllc.l, in the Lcyden Musenm, is a ticket, stating, "according to Mr. Picpeis. 

 this species attacks butterflies on the wing." This information reiiuires much corroboration. 

 + J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 219 (1885). 



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