136 ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 



? . Head totally blackish ; mesonotum also nearly totally black, the spots having coalesced ; 

 abdomen above darker than in the other sex, with the pale segmental margins narrower. 

 Long. excl. tegm. ? , 19 millim. Exp. tegm. 48 millim. 

 Hab. — Continental India: Quetta (coll. Dist.) ; North Bengal (Miss Campbell — Brit. Mus.). 



c. Tcgmina and wings unspotted. 



5. Cicadatra acberi.* (Tab. XV., figs. 3, a, h.) 



Tihicen acberi, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 373 (1888). 



c? . Head black, the ocelli red, the eyes brownish-ochraceous. Pronotum black, with a central longitudinal 

 fascia and the hind margin yellow, and two large discal reddish spots. Mesonotum black, with two faint 

 yellowish central fasciae extending a short distance from anterior margin. Abdomen black, the lateral 

 areas and apes more or less reddish. Face, sternum and femora yellow ; central longitudinal fascia to 

 face, head beneath (excluding face), apices of femora, the tibise and tarsi, black. Abdomen beneath dull 

 reddish. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation blackish or olivaceous ; costal membrane to tegmina 

 olivaceous. 



The face is moderately broad and strongly striated laterally ; the rostrum has the apex pitchy and 

 about reaching the intermediate coxfe. The opercula are yellowish, short, and broad, obliquely rounded, 

 and not meeting at centre. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? , 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 72 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India : Kashmeer Valley, 6300 feet (Leech — coll. Dist.). 



Genus CALCAGNINUS. 



Calcagninus, Distant, ante, p. 31. 



Body moderately long and robust. Head, including eyes, about equal in breadth to the base of 

 mesonotum ; ocelli not quite twice the distance from eyes as from each other ; front broad and convexly 

 rounded. Pronotum with the lateral margins sometimes slightly ampliated and more or less distinctly 

 toothed, or nearly straight with the posterior angles only ampliated. Anterior femora distinctly spined. 

 Eostrum in the male reaching the posterior coxjb. Tympanal coverings rudimentary ; the tympana practically 

 exposed and uncovered. Second and third abdominal segments in the male furnished beneath with a well- 

 developed tubercle near each lateral margin. Tegmina with the interior ulnar area scarcely narrowed at 

 apex ; apical areas eight in number. Wings with six apical areas. 



Calcafinimis, by the tuberculated under surface of the abdomen, resembles superficially the 

 genus Lcptopsaltria, belonging to the subfam. Cicadina: It is, however, at once seen to be not 

 even included in the Cicadince, by the uncovered and exposed tympana. Only two small 

 species are at present known, for both of which we are indebted to the entomological enterprise 

 of Mr. G. F. Hampson, during his residence in the Neelgiri Hills. 



a. Lateral margins of the pronotum straight, not ampliated. 

 1. Calcagninus picturatus. (Tab. VIII., figs. 13, a, b.) 



Leptopsalt)ia picturata. Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 370 (1888). 



<y . Body above brownish-ochraceous ; head, excluding base, much suffused with piceous, the ocelli red, 

 the eyes castaneous. Pronotum with a central, longitudinal, fuscous fascia, the margins of which are black, 



* Acber or Akbar, the conqueror of Kashmeer in 1585. 



" One of that saintly murderous brood, 

 To carnase and the Koran given." — Lalla EooMt. 



