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Genus BALCLUTHA. 



Gnathodus, Fieb. Verh. z.-h. Ges. Wien, xvi, p. 504 (1866) ; Echv. 



Tr. E. S. 1888, p. 77 ; Van Uuzee, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 300* 



(1892), nom. prseocc. 

 Balclutha, Kirk, Entoviologist, xxxiii, p. 243 (1900), nom. n. ; Oshan. 



Verz. Pal. Hem. Bd. ii, p. 185 (1900). 



Type, B. punctata, Tbunb. 



Distribution. Probably almost universally distributed. 



" Body oblong, obtuse in front, much narrowed behind. Crow n 

 very short, about one-fourth as long as the pronotum *, scarcely 

 longer in the middle than at the sides. Elytra much longer than 

 the abdomen, overlapping at the apex ; outer branch of the cubital 

 nerve obsolete ; membrane very large, as long as the inner margin 

 of the clavus ; appendix large. Submargiual wing-nerve complete ; 

 upper branch of the second m ing-uerve confluent with the first, 

 and running into the submarginal nerve as one nerve ; third wing- 

 nerve joined to the lower branch of the second by a transverse 

 nerve." (Edivards.) 



" First two sectors of the wings coalescing before the apex, the 

 resulting nervure uniting with the cosla some distance before 

 the tip of the wing, thus forming but two apical areoles." (Van 

 Duzee.) 



2624. Balclutha punctata, Tkimb. (Cicada) Act. Ups. iv, p. 21 

 (1784); Zett. (Cicadula) Lis. Lapp. p. 298 (1840): Fieh. 

 (Gnathodus) Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wieri, xvi, p. 505 (1866) ; Edic. Tr. 

 E. S. 1888, p. 77; Frov. ( Tvphlocvba) Pet. Faune Ent. Canad. 

 iii, p. 301 (1890) ; Van Dtizee (Giaathodus), Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 xxi, p. 306 (1894) ; Edii: Hem.-Hom. Brit. Lids. p. 191 (1896) ; 

 Matsum. Termesz. Fuzetek, xxv, p. 358 (1902) ; Melich. Horn. 

 Fann. Ceylon, p. 207 (1903); Oshan. (Balclutha) Verz. Pal. 

 Hem. Bd. ii, Horn. p. 185 (1906). 



d. "Greyish-yellow or pale salmon-coloured; elytra with a 

 few black spots arranged in two oblique bands, one on the basal 

 third, the other next the angular veins ; 5 P^l^ green, the spots 

 on the elytra reduced to two on the clavus, one at the apex, the 

 other near the base, and one or two on the coi"ium next the 

 angular veins. Crown obtusely produced in front. Head, pro- 

 notum and scutellum sometimes marked with fuscous or black, in 

 the apex of each Ming a fuscous streak. Abdomen black, hind 

 margins of the segments narrowly pale. Legs pale : tibia^ some- 

 times dark towards the apex, and ^ith dark points on the outer 

 side." (Edwards.) 



I have not seen the species from the Orient, the above is a 

 description of it as found in England. I have figured a J and 

 2 example taken in Silesia by Dr. Eger, in which the 2 specimen 



* The vertex would be better described as about one third as long as the 

 pronotum. 



