ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 143 



1. Melampsalta literata. (Tab. XV., figs. 8, a, h.) 



Ckaditta litcnita, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 875 (1888): 



S . Head and pronotum dull blackish, somewhat palely pilose, both crossed by a narrow, obscure, 

 longitudinal, ochraceous line; ocelli red, eyes black and shining. Mesonotum shming black, with the 

 lateral margins and a large, discal, " letter H "-shaped spot ochraceous. Abdomen above dull blackish, 

 the posterior segmental margins narrowly and obscurely dull reddish. Body beneath ochraceous, the 

 sternum much shaded with dull blackish. Abdomen with a central longitudinal row of blackish spots ; 

 legs ochraceous, femora and tibiic streaked with blackish. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation olivaceous or fuscous. 



The rostrum does not extend beyond the intermediate coxae, and the face is laterally and coarsely 

 striated. 



Long. excl. tegm. 5 , 12 millim. Exp. tegm. 37 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India : Kashmeer Valley, 0300 feet (Leech — Coll. Dist.). 



2. Melampsalta continuata. (Tab. XV., figs. 9, a, h.) 



Ckadetta contimiata, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 375 (1888). 



2 . Head and thorax above dull blackish, sparingly covered with short grey pilosity. Head with the 

 anterior margin, the ocelli, and a central, linear, longitudinal fascia continued across the pronotum, where 

 it is widened, dull ochraceous, the pronotal margins of the same colour. Mesonotum with two longitudinal 

 discal fasciffi, the lateral margins and basal cruciform elevation dull ochraceous, the last with its centre 

 blackish. Abdomen above pale castaneous, greyishly pilose, the posterior segmental margins paler in hue, 

 and with an obscure, central, narrow, longitudinal, blackish fascia. Body beneath and legs dull reddish- 

 ochraceous ; head beneath and the discal area of face blackish. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, their bases narrowly reddish-ochraceous, the venation more or less 

 olivaceous. 



The rostrum about reaches the intermediate coxae, and the face is very broad and tumid. 



Long. excl. tegm. 2 , 15 to 18 millim. Exp. tegm. 38 to 45 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India: Quetta* (colls. Atkins, and Dist.). 



3. Melampsalta pellosoma. (Tab. XV., figs. 10, a, h.) 



Cicada pelhso ma, Uhler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1862, p. 283. 



(? . Head above black, the anterior margins of the vertex and a spot behind the ocelU pale 

 ochraceous ; eyes brownish ; ocelli i-ed. Pronotum black, the margins and a central fascia — widened 

 anteriorly and posteriorly — pale ochraceous. Mesonotum ochraceous, with four obconical black spots, the 

 central pair shortest and palest in hue. Abdomen ochraceous, with a pale fuscous central longitudinal 

 fascia. Body beneath and legs pale ochraceous; the face —excluding margins and a spot at (base — 

 blackish ; coxiE and legs streaked and spotted with castaneous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline and talc-like, the venation ochraceous. 



2 . Paler in hue than the male ; head with the whole base ochraceous ; pronotum with a central 

 hour-glass-shaped ochraceous fascia ; mesonotum with the obconical spots very faint or semi-obliterated. 



Long. excl. togm. 3 and $ , 15 millim. Exp. tegm. 37 millim. 



Hab.— China: Hong Kong (Uhler) ; Shantung (coll. Dist.). 



* We know little about the entomology of the outlying districts of North-western India, especially as to the family 

 CicadidiF, which is probably well represented. A writer in the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal' ivol. Ix. p. 441, 

 1840) describes how, on his inarch with the army of tlie Indus, from Kandahar towards Kabul, he observed a remarkable 

 congregation of Cicadidie, composed of more than one species. " The branches of the tamirisk were covered with them, as 

 hardly to be able to distinguish a particle of green, and their noise all day was unceasing; the jewivweo bushes beini; at the 

 same time covered with the empty scales of the piipip. Our tents and tent-ropes as soon as pitched were covered by these 

 insects; in fact, everything looked yellow." 



