134 ORIENTAL CICADIDJE. 



ampliated. Tympanal coverings rudimentary, the tympana practically uncovered. Opercula small. 

 Tegmina moderately short and broad ; the basal cell twice as broad as long ; the interior ulnar area a little 

 broader at apex than at base ; apical areas eight in number. Wings with six apical areas. 



This is a Palsearctic genus just entering the Oriental region by North-western India. 

 Five species can now be enumerated, but doubtless others remain to be discovered. 



a. Tegmina and wings spotted. 



1. Cicadatra querula. (Tab. XII., figs. 2, a, h.) 



Cicada querula, Pallas, Reise dureh versch. Provinz. Russ. Reichs, fc. ii. p. 729, u. 83 (1773) ; Linn. ed. xiii. 



Gmel. p. 2100, n. 95 (1782); Goeze, Ent. Beytr. ii. p. 151, u. 17 (1778); Hageu, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 



1856, p. 33, n. 5. 

 Cicadatra querida var. paliuri, Kolenat. BiUl. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol. xxx. p. 412, t. vi. f. 5 (1857). 

 Cicada steveni, St51, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1854, p. 243. 

 Cicadatra querula, Kolenat. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol. xxx. p. 410, n. 4 (1857); Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 4, 



vol. i. p. 617 (1861). 

 Cephaloxys quadrimdcula, Walk. List Horn. i. p. 238, n. 9 (1850). 

 Cicadatra quadrimacula, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 485. 

 Moi/annia quadrimacida, Atkins. J. A. S. Bang. vol. liii. p. 233, n. 93 (1885). 

 Cicada nif/rosir/nata, MS. (Mils. Vienn.). 

 Stoll. Gig. fig. 6. 



J and 2 . Head and thorax above ochraceous or reddish-ochraceous. Head with the front, and a 

 large broken transverse fascia between the eyes, black. Pronotum with two central longitudinal fasciae, — 

 irregular in width, — the fissures, and a submarginal lateral fascia, black. Mesonotum with four obconical 

 spots, — the central pair shortest and sometimes fused, — a lanceolate spot in front of the cruciform 

 elevation, and a spot on each side of same, black. Abdomen sometimes ochraceous with a discal series of 

 black spots, or altogether black with the posterior segmental margins ochraceous. Head beneath, 

 sternum, legs, and opercula, ochraceous ; the face, sternal spots, shadings to femora, tibiae and tarsi 

 (irregular in quantity), black ; abdomen beneath ochraceous, in some specimens black with the posterior 

 segmental margins ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, somewhat talc-like in appearance, the venation — excepting 

 sometimes towards apices — ochraceous ; tegmina with the costal membrane ochraceous, the transverse 

 veins at the bases of the first, second and third apical areas — sometimes only the second and third — vei-y 

 darkly infuscated ; a small costal spot at end of radial area, and the upi^er margin of basal cell, dark 

 fuscous. Wings with the transverse veins at the bases of the first, second and third apical areas — 

 sometimes only the first and second — broadly and very darkly infuscated. 



The rostrum has its apex black, and about reaches the posterior coxae ; the face is distinctly sulcated 

 for its whole length, and is coarsely transversely striate. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? and 2 , 19 to 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 50 to 65 millim. 



Hab. — Palaearctic Region.* — Persia (coll. Dist.). Turkestan : Tashkend (coll. Dist.). Afghanistan 

 (Ind. Bound. Com. — coll. Dist.). Oriental Region. — Continental India: North India (sic) (Stevens — 

 Brit. Mus.). 



This well-known Palfearctic species evidently just enters our fauna at the north-western 

 frontier of India. It was found not uncommon on the borders of Afghanistan by the Indian 

 Boundary Commission. 



* Habitat circa mare Caspictim ad fluviiun Wolqa, Terek, Cijrum, in Eussiae meridionalis adjacentibus^rouinciii cis et 

 transcaucasicis, in Sibiriie adjacentibus (Orenburg). — Kolenati, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. t. xxx. p. 411 (1857). 



