114 ORIENTAL CICADID.E. 



Var. a. 



The late Mr. Adam White wrote, " In one specimen in the Museum (a female) are two or 

 three lighter streaks on the elytra not far from the posterior margin." 



The proper habitat of this species was quite unknown to its describer, who gave it as 

 " New Holland ?" I, however, captured a single specimen myself when in the Malay Peninsula 

 in 1868, and, beyond the unlocalised specimens in the British Museum, have not seen another 

 example. 



5. Huechys fusca, n. sp. (Tab. III., figs. 7, a, b.) 



S . Body and legs black ; front and face to head, and two large spots on mesonotum, either orange or 

 pale yellow ; abdomen dark orange-yellow, narrowly black at base ; face sometimes with a small black spot 

 at base. 



Tegmina pale fuscous ; the venation, basal cell and costal membrane blackish. Wings very pale 

 fuscous, semi-hyaline. 



The rostrum reaches the intermediate coxte ; the striatious to the face are coarse and profound. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ and 2 , 16 to 20 millim. Esp. tegm. 45 to 51 millim. 



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

 Borneo: Sarawak (Beccari — Genoa Mus.) ; Kina Balu Mt. (Whitehead — coll. Dist.). Sulu Isles: Jolo 

 (coll. Dist.). Philippine Isles: Palawan (coll. Dist.). 



Var. a. 



Altogether duller in hue ; the abdomen testaceous, with the posterior segmental margins orange- 

 yellow; tegmina darker and more opaque. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Borneo, Kina Balu Mt. (Whitehead — coll. Dist.). 



In this difficult genus, where variation reigns supreme, and differential characters of a 

 structural nature are so seldom to be found, H. fusca may be superficially recognised by the 

 yellow face and front, yellow spots to mesonotum, colour of the abdomen, and fuscous 

 tegmina. The pronotum is also without any fasciate markings. 



6. Huechys pingenda. (Tab. III., figs. 1, «, h.) 



Huechys pint/enda. Distant, Ami. Mus. Civ. Genoa, ser. 2a, vol. vi. p. 519 (1888). 



<y . Head and thorax above black ; the front of the bead, the ocelli, and two large spots — situate on 

 the basal margins of the mesonotum — bright oehraceous. Abdomen above dull reddish, the base and 

 dorsal area dull pitchy-black. Head and thorax beneath, the legs, rostrum, and opercula, pitchy-black ; 

 the face — excluding basal margin — bright oehraceous. Abdomen beneath dull reddish, with transverse 

 pitchy segmental fasciae and the apical half of anal appendage black. 



Tegmina opaque milky-white, slightly suffused with pale fuscous on the apical area; the venation, 

 costal membrane, greater portion of basal cell, and a very small basal patch, pitchy black. Wings pale 

 smoky hyaline, the venation pitchy. 



The face is robust, laterally compressed, the transverse striations distinct on basal half, and the 

 longitudinal sulcation broadening towards apes ; the rostrum reaches the intermediate coxae. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 24 millim. Exp. tegm. 58 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago: Sumatra, Mt. Singalang (0. Beccari — Genoa Mus. and coll. Dist.). 



The more robust body also distinguishes this and the following species . 



