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The face is laterally much compressed and moderately striated ; the rostrtim about reaches the 

 intermediate coxffi ; the legs are robust, and the anterior femora have a stronf; spine both at l)asc and apes. 



The tegmina in the specimen figured have a small additional cell at base of the second apical area, 

 caused by the presence of a short abnormal transverse vein. 



Long. excl. tegm. ? , 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 70 millim. 



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



3. Tibicen lacteipennis. (Tab. X., figs. 5, a, I,; Tab. XII., ligs. 10, a, h.) 



Cephaloxys lacteipennis, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 237, n. 8 (1850). 



Mofjannia lacteipennis, Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 283, n. 92 (1885). 



This species, being only known to the writer by the typical female specimen contained in 

 the British Museum, — hero figured, — Walker's original description is also given. 



" Body luteous, clothed with pale hairs : head black, small, much narrower than the thorax ; a small 

 tawny spot at the base of each feeler ; face very prominent, adorned on each side with a large tawnj- spot : 

 mouth black, tawny at the base : eyes not prominent : feelers black : fore-chest much nan-owcr in front 

 than behind ; sides rounded at the base of the fore-wings, then slightly concave, and again slightly convex 

 and minutely notched towards the fore border ; furrows of the scutcheon black ; hind-scutcheon broad, a 

 black band along its fore border ; scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four black obconical slightly 

 excavated marks ; middle pair not more than half the length of the side pair, — between the former there 

 is a black stripe increasing in breadth from the fore border to the middle, where it ceases ; hind border very 

 slightly excavated : abdomen black, obconical, a little broader and longer than the chest ; hind borders of 

 the segments tawny; a tawny spot on each side near the tip, which is also tawny : opercula tawny, small, 

 open ; their furrows hoary ; drums extremely small : legs luteous ; a pitchy spot at the tip of each shank ; 

 tips of the claws black; fore thighs armed with two stout teeth, which are partly black at the base : wings 

 and flaps white, opake, luteous at the base ; veins black, tawny towards the base and near the brand, an 

 additional cross-vein near the tip of the sixth discoidal areolet of the left wing of the specimen described." 



" Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wiugs 46 lines." 



Hab. — Continental India: "North India" (sic) (Stevens — Brit. Mus.). 



B. Head, including outer margins of eyes, about or nearly equal in width to base of mesonotuni. 



b. Wings uitlt six apical areas. 



4. Tibicen subvittatus. (Tab. XII., figs. 17, a, h.) 



Cicada sitbvitta. Walker, List Hom. i. p. 222, n. 17G (1850) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. Uii. p. 280, n. 78 (1885). 

 Tibicen subvitta, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 18G2, p. 485. 

 Cicada sti-igosa, Walk. lus. Saund. Hom. p. 19 (1858). 



J . Body above blackish ; head with the eyes, a small spot on vertical margins, a spot at base, and 

 the ocelli, ochraceous ; pronotum with the anterior and posterior margins — narrowly, — a central longi- 

 tudinal fascia, and the fissures, ochraceous ; mesonotum with very faint linear outlines of two central 

 obconical spots, and the apices of the cruciform elevation, ochraceous ; margins of the abdominal 

 segments, and basal area of last abdominal segment, castaueous. Body beneath, with the lateral margins 

 of the face, sternal spots, opercula, and disk of abdomen, ochraceous ; legs considerably spotted and 

 marked with ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation mostly fuscous. Tegmina with the outer edge of 

 costal membrane, the basal cell, and tiaval area, ochraceous ; apex of basal cell blackish ; a short fuscous 



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