DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CICADA FROM CENTRAL CHINA. 91 
aphids, and illustrate them with well-coloured plates. Hight of 
these aphids are also Kuropean. 
Auriyilius (11) and Wahlgren (13 & 14) have treated of certain 
Swedish insect groups; their papers should be of considerable 
interest to British workers. 
The titles of the other papers enumerated are self-explanatory 
(G356,195 1:0;:12). 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CICADA FROM CENTRAL 
CHINA. 
By W. L. Disrant. 
Fam. CICADIDA. 
Subfam. Ganina. 
Taona, gen. nov. 
Head, including eyes, about as wide as base of mesonotum and 
as long as pronotum, the front not obliquely deflected but horizontally 
produced in front of and a little below the anterior margin of the 
vertex; ocelli somewhat close together near middle of vertex ; face 
prominent, somewhat compressed, strongly transversely ridged ; 
clypeus strongly compressed and reaching the anterior coxe ; pro- 
notum about as long as mesonotum, its lateral margins nearly 
straight; rostrum reaching the posterior cox; anterior femora 
strongly spined beneath; tegmina and wings opaque, tegmina with 
their greatest breadth more than one-third their length, apical areas 
eight, the apical margin oblique, the apex subangulate. 
Intermediate between Geana and Balinta, allied to the first 
by the broader tegmina, but differing by the shorter head, which 
allies it to Balinta, from which, however, it is separated by the 
short and broad tegmina, and the non-deflected head in front of 
eyes; the compressed face somewhat straightly continued to 
clypeus is also distinctive. Ihave not seen a male specimen, so 
cannot describe the opercula. 
Taona versicolor, sp. 0. 
?. Head, pronotum, mesonotum, head beneath, sternum, legs 
and tegmina virescent; eyes, apices of tibize, tarsi and costal mem- 
brane of tegmina more or less pale testaceous-brown, the veins on 
basal area of tegmina fuscous-brown; abdomen bright reddish- 
ochraceous; wings cretaceous-white, opaque, the venation dull 
ochraceous; body above and beneath more or less palely pilose ; 
posterior femora with two long strong spines beneath and a shorter 
and more obtuse spine just in front of the anterior spine; structural 
characters as in generic diagnosis. 
?. Long., excl. tegm., 27 millim. Exp. tegm., 75 millim. 
Hab. China; Prov. Shen-se, Sin-ling (Wilfred A. Maw— 
Brit. Mus.). 
