PSALMOCIIAJIIAS. OUDAISA. 1.3 



PSALMOCII A HIAS QU.ERL'I.A, 



8ena qiia'rula. (^^)l. 111, p. ISo.) 



Specimens ot this species were exliil)ited at a Meeting of the 

 Zoological Society of Loudou (February 1, IIJIO) by Col. Sir A. 

 H. McMalion, who stated that great swarms of it had visited 

 Quetta, Baluchistan, in 1909. Similar swarms had been known 

 to occur at intervals of about six years. This Cicadid bores a liole 

 in the gromid, apparently intended merely to hold the insect 

 during its pupal stage. Each hole is separate and quite open, 

 holds only one pupa, and is bored vertically to a depth varying 

 from 11 inches to 2 feet. In diameter it is about half an inch, 

 but widens slightly at the bottom. 



(Jenus GUDABA. (Vol. Ill, p. 138.) 

 3153. Gudaba maculata, Uid. A. M. N. II. (8) x, p. 439 (1912). 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum ochraceous ; head w ith the 

 apex and two longitudinal fascine to front, area of the ocelli, and 

 an oblique fascia before each eye, black ; pronotum with two 

 central longitudinal fasciae, a spot behind each eye, and the 

 lateral fissures, black : mesonotum with a central longitudinal line, 

 on each side of which is a short oblique linear fascia, a sublateral 

 fascia (sometimes much broken), two small spots in front of the 

 cruciform elevation, and the anterior angles of same, black; 

 abdomen brownish ochraceous, in d a small black basal spot and 

 the apical area castaneous, in $ a central black spot on the fii\st 

 three segments and a series of small lateral marginal spots ; body 

 beneath and legs brownish ochraceous in c?,the apices of the 

 femora distinctly black, and the apical area of the abdomen 

 piceous or black ; in the 2 the underside of the body and legs 

 is virescent; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation brownish 

 ochraceous or fuscous ; tegmina with a sublateral series of mar- 

 ginal fuscous spots placed on the lateral veins to apical areas ; 

 head as long as breadth between eyes ; pronotum with the lateral 

 mai'gins angulated : abdomen considerably longer than space be- 

 tween head and base of cruciform elevation, second and third 

 ventral segments furnished with a tubercle near each lateral 

 margin, the posterior tubercle \evy small ; tympanal coverings 

 very much shorter and narrower than the tympanal orifices ; 

 opercula short, oblique, not passing the base of abdomen : rostrum 

 reaching the posterior coxje; wings with five a])ical areas. 



Length excl. tegm., c? $ ,13; exp. tegm. 33-34 millim. 



Hah. cS, Sikkim (CoJ. Bmyhain); $, Dehra Dun (X C. 

 Chatterjee, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the Burmese si)ecies G. ymirf/inafa, Dist., and consti- 

 tuting the first species described from Fndia proper. 



