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11. PLATYPLEURA NOBILIS. 
Cicada nobilis, Germar in Thon’s Archiv. ii, fase. 2, p. 9 (1830) ; in Silber- 
mann’s Rey. Ent. ii, pt. 2, p. 82, (1834). 
Cicada hemiptera, Guérin, Voyage Bélanger Ind. Orient. p. 500 (1834). 
Platypleura semilucida, Walker, List Hom. B. M. i. p. 20 (1850). 
Platyplewra nobilis, Butler, Cist. Hnt. i, p. 191 (1874) ; Distant, J. A. S. B. xlviii, 
(2), p. 38 (1879). 
Reported from Java, Singapore, and Tenasserim : there is a specimen 
in the Indian Museum from Tenasserim. As this is a typical species of 
the smaller members of this genus, I re-describe it, the original de- 
scription being practically unobtainable. 
Tawny. Face tawny, moderately convex, transversely sulcated with 
the furrows brown and a longitudinal groove broadly black. Rostrum 
extending to the fourth abdominal segment, tip piceous. Eyes dull 
castaneous, with a narrow black fascia, extending from anterior margin 
around the base of the antenne. Vertex with a bright tawny fascia on 
anterior margin and two minute obconical black marks, extending from 
posterior margin on each side of the ocelli, obsolete in some. Prono- 
tum tawny, furrowed, furrows black; a line from the middle of the 
anterior border to the posterior border, black and quadrangularly expanded 
on the disc. Mesonotum fulvous brown, with two moderate obconical 
black spots, extending backward from the fore border, midway between 
which there is a discal line connected with a fascia on the hinder border 
also black. On the outer side of both the moderate obconical spots is 
a large obconical patch, black, and extending from the fore border almost 
to the hind border. The metanotum is bright tawny. The abdominal 
sutures are black, edged with fulvous, slightly pubescent. Below, the 
fulvous margins of the abdominal segments alone appear. Opercula 
tawny, brown at the base, rounded, small, wide apart. Legs tawny, 
anterior and middle femora spotted brown, posterior tibiz spinose. Tee- 
mina, basal third tawny, with some irregular lighter markings : a hyaline 
spot, at the apex of the radial area, just above a dark brown spot which 
extends into the costal membrane: a black spot in the ulnar space. 
Apical two-thirds of tegmina hyaline, with three minute brown spots 
on the apical anastomoses of the first and second ulnar areas, also a very 
minute brown spot on each side of the middle of the vein separating the 
second from the third apical area and the third from the fourth; six 
minute brown spots on the limbus. Basal two-thirds of the wings brown, 
with a discal streak extending to the anal angle, tawny; apical third, 
hyaline ; flaps tawny with a brown line on the suture. Length body 16; 
exp. teg. 46; length of one tegmen 24; breadth of pronotum 8 millims. 
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