416 JASSID^. 



Genus EUPTERYX. 



Eupteryx, Curt. Ent. May. i. p. 192 (1833) ; Melich. Horn. Fauii. 



Ceylon, p, 210 (1903) ; Oshan. Verz. Pal. He^n. ii, Homopt. ii, 



p. 198 (1907). 

 Diomma, MoUch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxvi, 3, p. 102 (1863). 

 Typhlocyba, Fieb. Rev. Zool. 1875, p. 415 ; id. t. c. 1876, t. 13. 



Type, E. atropunctata, Goeze, a Palrearctic species. 



Distribution. Nearctic, Palaearctic and Oriental E-egions. Pro- 

 bably much more widely distributed. 



" Face subtrigonate, the head appearing crescent-shaped above ; 

 rostrum short and lanceolate ; auteunte inserted in a cavity under 

 each eye, biarticulate, first and second joints stout, the former 

 subglobose, the latter oblong, third very slender and terminated 

 by a fine long seta ; ocelli none ; thorax small, transverse ; 

 scutellum triangular ; superior wings narrowed and rounded, 

 with a few indistinct nervures ; inferior transparent with a few 

 nervures ; legs rather slender, posterior long, the tibiae clothed 

 with spiny bristles from the base to the apex outside, pectinated 

 with spines on the inside, except at the base, tarsi triarticulate, 

 elongated in the hinder pair, the basal joint being the longest, 

 the terminal one the shortest." {Curtis,) 



" Small delicate Cicadte with extremely delicate tegmina which 

 exhibit four terminal cells of which the second is triangular ; 

 the three sectors in the «'ings run nearly parallel, divided 

 in the border of the tip and connected by transverse A^eins, 

 from third sector there is an oblique branch to the encompassing 

 vein running before the tip of the wing into the margin." 

 {Melicliar.) 



2693. Eupteryx picta, Melich. Ham. Faun. Ceylon, p. 210 (1903), 



Eupteryx melicburi, Kirk. Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc. 

 pt. ix, p. 363 (1906V 



"Lemon-yellow with brown markings; vertex and underside 

 ivory-white ; vertex triangularly produced, nearly as long as 

 pronotum, obtuse at tip, arched above, shining, without markings ; 

 front horizontal, curved downward, very smooth, white, the 

 rounded front margin of vertex shining ivory-white, a short 

 black longitudinal dash on each side at frontal suture near 

 antennal cavities ; antennae white, the antennal bristle yellowish, 

 long ; eyes black ; rostrum very short ; pronotum rounded in front, 

 nearly straight behind, arched, smooth, shining lemon-yellow M'ith 

 a black transverse baud on posterior margin : scutellum triangular 

 with a transverse dash before the apex, lemon-yellow; tegmina 

 somewhat long, rounded behind, hyaline, lemon-yellow with 



