THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXIX.] 



JUNE, 1906. 



[No. 517. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES 

 OF CICADID^ FEOM CHINA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



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Sub-family Tibicinin^. 

 Division Taphuraria. 

 Hea, gen. nov. 

 ^ . Head short, broad, including eyes about as wide as base of 

 mesonotum, eyes prominent, projecting beyond the anterior angles of 

 the pronotum, front only about half the length of vertex, anterior 

 ocellus placed near front margin of vertex ; face almost as far removed 

 from the eyes as its breadth, depressed near base, longitudinally sul- 

 cate and with very strong transverse ridges ; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate coxffi ; pronotum longer than head but shorter than 

 mesonotum, its lateral margins moderately rounded and sinuate near 

 anterior angles, its posterior angles obliquely prominent ; mesonotum 

 with the lateral margins angulate near base, the cruciform elevation 

 short and broad ; abdomen about as long as space between apex of 

 head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; 

 opercula small, not reaching base of abdomen and not completely 

 covering the cavities ; anterior femora armed beneath with four 

 spines, the apical spine very short ; tegmina and wings hyaline ; 



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