ORIENTAL CICADIDjE. 185 



*2. Cicadatra rugipennis. (Tab. XII., figs. 7, a, h.) 



Cicada noji/'cnnis, Walker, lus. Saund. Horn. p. 17 (1858). 



" Male. Luteous-testaceous, stout. Prothorax much broader behind than in front ; sides straight ; 

 sutures strongly marked. Abdomen with a blackish band on the fore border of each segment. Wings 

 white, rather broad, very stout and very rugulose. Fore wings slightly convex in front ; costa and veins 

 reddish, the latter black towards the tips ; first, second and third transverse veins and most part of the 

 intermediate veins clouded with lilack ; first and second transverse veins oblique, nearly equal, parted from 

 each other by rather more tlian their length ; third and fourth oblique in the contrary direction. Hind 

 wings with a short angular black band in front at two-thirds of the length." 



" Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 40 lines." 



Hab. — Continental India : Ilindostan (sic) (Brit. I\Ius.). 



The specimen figured is that of the imique type in the British Museum. 



b. Tegmina alone spotted. 



3. Cicadatra xantes. (Tab. XV., figs. 1, «, b.) 



Cicada xantes. Walker, List Horn. i. p. 198, n. 149 (1850). 

 Cicadatra xantes, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 18G2, p. 485. 



^ . Body above ochraceous, rather thickly and shortly pilose. Head with the face castaneous, and 

 with a black spot near inner margins of the eyes. Pronotum with two central longitudinal black fascia 

 on disk, a small black central spot at base, and the fissures also blackish. Mesonotum with four obconical 

 black spots, the central pair shortest. Abdomen very thickly greyishly pilose. Body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline and somewhat talc-like in appearance, the venation ochraceous ; 

 tegmina with the costal membrane and extreme base ochraceous, the transverse veins at the bases of the 

 second and third apical areas palely infuscated. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 17 millim. Exp. tegm. 50 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India : North India (sic) (Warwick— Brit. Mus.) ; " Ind. Orient." (sic) (coll. Dist.). 



I have only seen two specimens of this species,— one in the British Museum, the other 

 belonging to my own collection. Both also have no definite habitat, with the exception of 

 being undoubtedly from Continental India. 



4. Cicadatra striata. (Tab. XV., figs. 2, a, b.) 



Cicada striata. Walker, List Horn. i. p. 206, n. 158 (1850) ; Stal. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. 1862, p. 482 (1850). 



Cicada ancea, Walk. List Horn. i. p. 207, n. 160 (1850) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 229, n. 71 (1885). 



Cicadatra striata, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forb. 1802, p. 485. 



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



Cicada suhi-i'nv.'<a , Walk. Ins. Saund. Hom. p. 18 (1858). 



,? . Head blackish, a spot at anterior angles of vertex, and a smaller one behind each eye, ochraceous. 

 Pronotum dull ochraceous, a pale central longitudinal fascia margined on each side with blackish, the 

 sublateral and subposterior margins and the fissures blackish. Mesonotum ochraceous, with four obconical 

 black spots, the central pair of which are smallest, a large black spot in front of the basal cruciform 

 elevation, and a similarly coloured spot on each side of same. Abdomen blackish, the posterior segmmtal 

 margins castaneous. Head beneath blackish ; sternum, legs and opercula ochraceous ; coxse spotted with 

 blackish. Abdomen beneath pale castaneous, its apex ochraceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, with their extreme bases reddish-ochraceous ; tegmina with the 

 venation and costal membrane mostly fuscous, the transverse veins at the bases of the second and third 

 apical areas infuscated ; wings with the venation mostly ochraceous. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 16 millim. Exp. tegm. 45 millim. 



