316 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vou. V, 
Skapana typica, sp. nov. (Pl. xxi, figs. 8, 8a.) 
Ochraceous; apical margin of head, eyes, central disk of pro- 
notum, exposed mesonotum, clavus, interior area of corium, and 
narrow lateral and apical margins to cuneus, black or blackish ; 
scutellum castaneous, its extreme apex blackish; membrane fuli- 
ginous; antenne black the third joint pale; rostrum black ; body 
beneath and legs (imperfectly seen in typical specimen) ochra- 
ceous, the posterior femora pale castaneous; head finely punctate ; 
pronotum, corium, clavus and cuneus coarsely punctate ; scutel- 
lum finely punctate; other structural characters as in generic 
diagnosis. 
Long, 54 mm. 
Hab.—Borneo; Kuching (Hewitt). 
HOMOPTERA. 
Family CICADIDA. 
Genus PURANA. 
Purana, Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xv, p. 60 (1905). 
Type, P. tigrina, Walk. 
Purana conspicua, sp.nov. (Pl. xxi, figs. 7, 7a, 7b.) 
Head, pronotum and mesonotum brownish-ochraceous ; head 
with the front anteriorly transversely blackly striate, the stria- 
tions not meeting centrally and bounded by two black marginal 
lines, vertex with a large central angulate (narrowing posteriorly) 
black spot, enclosing the ocelli, with a curved anterior black spot 
on each side and the inner margin to the eyes black; pronotum 
with two central longitudinal narrow black fasciz, united pos- 
teriorly, the fissures more or less black and with a transverse spot 
of the same colour on each lateral margin; mesonotum with five 
longitudinal black stripes, the central straight and the one on each 
side of it shortest, a rounded black spot near each anterior angle 
of the basal cruciform elevation ; abdomen above black, greyishly 
pilose, the lateral margins more or less brownish-ochraceous; body 
beneath and legs brownish-ochraceous; the transverse striations 
and apex to face, an oblique stripe on each side between face and 
eyes, apical halves of cheeks, lateral areas of clypeus, sternal 
spots and apex of abdomen, black; tegmina hyaline, costal 
membrane and venation brownish-ochraceous or piceous, the trans- 
verse veins at apices of first and second ulnar areas broadly black, 
and the longitudinal veins to the first three apical areas piceously 
spotted near their apices, basal cell and base of claval area ochra- 
ceous; wings hyaline, the veins brownish ochraceous; head includ- 
ing eyes as wide as base of mesonotum, as long as space between 
eyes, tympanal coverings in «~, broader at base than long; face 
globose, strongly transversely striate ; rostrum reaching the poste- 
