144 ORIENTAL CICADIDM. 



4. Melampsalta exaequata, n. s\). (Tab. XV., figs. 11, a, b.) 



? . Body above dull ochraceous and finely pilose. Head — excluding anterior margins of vertex and 

 a spot at base — black. Pronotum with a central small rounded black spot at base. Mesonotum with a 

 large obconical black spot on each lateral area, and two very small spots in front of the basal cruciform 

 elevation. Abdomen with the base — narrowly — fuscous, and with two, more or less distinct, central 

 longitudinal fuscous fascise. Body beneath and legs ochraceous, with a broad fuscous fascia extending 

 from face to apex of abdomen. Face fuscous, with the lateral margins ochraceous. Apices of the femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi fuscous. 



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



Long. excl. tegm. 2 , 14 millim. Exp. tegm. 37 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India: Naga Hills (Doherty — coll. Dist.). 



Species knoum to the writer htj description onltj. 

 5. Melampsalta Isevifrons. 



Melampsalta lavifrons, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 717, n. 1. 



" Fronte lievi, sulco longitudinali rugisque transversis destituta ; thorace anterius capiteque aeque 

 latis, illius lateribus parallelis, inermibus, postice ampliatis ; tegminibus alisque vitreis, venis nigris, basin 

 versus flavo-ferrugineis, spatio inter venam postcostalem et ramum ulnarem postcostalem ferrugineo, opaco, 

 a basi versus medium sensim ami^liato, pone medium angusto, sensim angustato." 



" ff . Long. 14, exp. tegm. 39 mill." 



" <? . Operculis pallide flavescentibus, basi nigris, fere aeque longis ac latis, apice rotundatis, 

 distantibus, spatio mter opercula tertiam partem latitudinis operculorum efficiente ; segmento dorsali 

 ultimo apice acuminato, angulis posticis in lobum sensim angustatum, breviusculum productis ; segmento 

 ventrali penultimo triangulari, subsequilatero, apice rotundato, segmento ultimo obovato, mediocri, segmento 

 l^enultimo vix longiore." 



" Fronte Ifevi insignis et ab omnibus mihi cognitis congenericis divergens. Quoad structm-am 

 tegminum directionem venarum et formam arearum M. Mnemff Walk, similis, sed spatio inter venam post- 

 costalem et ramum ulnarem postcostalem ante medium latiore, pone medium sensim magis angustato. 

 Caput nigrum, macula triangulari basali verticis apice jugorum, frontis parte sursum vergente margini- 

 busque lateralibus, vitta media vel lineis duabus mediis clypei sordide flavescentibus. Eostrum flavo- 

 ferrugineum, apice nigrum. Thorax ferrugineus, impressionibus disci nigris, limbo postico et laterali nee 

 non vitta media posterius abbreviata, antice posticeque uigro-marginata, flavescentibus. Scutellum flavo- 

 ferrugineum, maculis duabus basalibus mediis subobtriangularibus, vitta laterali retrorsum angustata, 

 posterius abbreviata, nee non litura media, formam signi j, fere referente nigris. Abdomen rufum vel 

 ferrugineo-rufum, segmento primo supra subtusque nee non limbo basali utrimque abbreviato segmentorum 

 dorsalium nigris, segmento dorsali primo postice maculis duabus transversis rufis. Pedes ferrugineo- 

 flavescentes, femoribus anticis nigro-vittatis et subtus spinis tribus magnis nigris armatis, spina sub- 

 apicali ijisa antice spinula armata." 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Philii^pine Isles (Semper — Stockh. Mus.). 



