14 DESCRIPTION OF AN INDIAN CICADA. 
CICADA IMPERATORIA, Westwood. (Annals of N. H.) 
Prater 51. 
C. luteo-fulva, capite et thoracis dorso maculis plurimis magnitudine et forma variis, nigris ; 
mesothoraceque figura trifida notatis; pronoti lateribus in medio emarginatis et angu- 
latis ; abdomine brunneo lateribus pallidioribus macula in singulo segmento utrinque 
nigra ; alis flavido-hyalinis, venis fulvis; anticarum venis transversis subapicalibus fusco 
nebulosis maculisque septem versus marginem fuscis. Long. corp. unc. 33. Expans. 
alar. unc. 84. 
Inhabits the East Indies (Nepaul, &c.) and the Indian Islands. In my own and other 
collections. 
This fine insect is nearly allied to C. fusca Oliv. Stoll, Cigal, fig. 36, 
from the west coast of Sumatra, as well as to the Cicada flavida, of 
Guérin, figured in Belanger’s “‘ Voyage aux Indes Orientales.” The 
specimen figured is a male, the drum-covers being visible at the 
sides of the base of the abdomen, hiding the greater part of the 
posterior femora on the underside. They extend no farther than 
is here represented. If this species make a noise proportioned to 
its size, it must indeed be loud. That of the small European species 
has long been famous, as the Odes of Anacreon prove. Having 
in the first volume of this work (p. 98) given an English translation 
of his Ode to the Cicada, a German one ye Ramler, quoted by 
Burmeister, is here added. 
Gludlich nenn’ id) dich Zifade ! 
Daf du auf den hodhften Saumen 
Von ein wenig Thau begeiftert, 
Aehnlich einem Konig fingeft. 
Dein gehoret all und jedes, 
Was du in den Feldern fchaueft, 
Was die Fabhreszeiten bringen ; 
Dir find Freund die Landbemohner, 
Weil du feinem lebft 3u Leide, 
Und die Sterblichen verehren 
Dich, des Sommers holden Boten ; 
Und es lieben dich die Mufen 
Und es liebt dich Phoibos felber ; 
Er gab dir die flare Stimme ;— 
Aud das Ulter dich nicht dranger, 
Seber, Erdgeborne, Sanger, 
Leidenlos, ohn’ Blut im Fleifche. 
Shier bift du den Gottern abnlic ! 
The plant represented in the plate is the Indian Parochetus 
communis. 
