62 CICADID.I. 



longitudinal veins to the second and third apical areas ; lateral 

 pronotal angles a little ampliate, but subtruncate, not medially 

 angulate. 



Length excl. tegm. 18 ; exp. tegm. 50 ; breadth between pronotal 

 angles 9 inillim. 



Hah. North Bengal (Miss Campbell, Brit. Mus.). 



Apparently a scarce species ; my own collection contains one 

 unlocalized male specimen. 



bb. Teqmina and winr/s h)/aline, hut tvith hasal areas of hoth 

 more or less opaque. 



. Pronotal margins ampliated, hut not medially angulate. 



1538. Platypleura basialba. Walk. (Oxvpleura) List Horn, i, p. 26 



(IS.jO) ; Butl. (Platypleura) Cist. Ent. i, p. 191 (1874) ; Atkim. 

 J. A. S. Bern/. Iv, p. 147 (1886) ; Dist. (PcBcilopsaltria) Mon. 

 Orient. Cicad. p. 9, tab. viii, f. 19 a, b (1889). 



Head olivaceous, base of front, anterior margins of vertex, and a 

 narrow fascia between eyes black ; pronotum pale tawny brown, 

 lateral and posterior margins paler, a short central discal line, two 

 posterior small central spots, incisures, and edge of lateral margins 

 black ; mesonotum pale brown, with four obcouical spots (the two 

 central ones shortest), a central lanceolate spot, and two small 

 rounded spots in front of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen 

 above black, the tympanal coverings and segmental margins pale 

 olivaceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochraccous ; a somewhat 

 imperfect fascia between eyes, crossing base of face, black ; abdo- 

 men beneath veiy strongly greyishly pilose, more or less shaded with 

 piceous ; tegraina and wings hyaline ; tegraina with the venation, 

 costal area and membrane, and basal cell pale olivaceous, basal 

 third pale obscure fuscous with a central cretaceous fascia ; wings 

 with nearly basal half blacl^, and tlie veins brownish ; body above 

 and beneath more or less greyishly pilose. 



Length excl. tegm. 21 ; exp. tegm. 62 ; breadth between pronotal 

 angles 11 millim. 



Hah. North Bengal {Miss CampheJl, Brit. Mus.) ; Dehra Dun 

 {MacTcinnon) ; Mhow (Forsayeth, Brit. Mus.). 



c". Pronotal margins medially a)igulate. 



1539. Platypleura coelebs, Stdl, Tr. E. S. (3) i, p. 573 (1863) ; Atkins. 



J. A. S. Benq. liii, p. 313 (1885); Dist. (Poecilopsaltria) Mon. 

 Orient. Cicad. p. 12, tab. i. f. 12 a, b (1889). 



Head ochraceous ; front (excluding a central spot), lateral margins 

 of vertex, and a transverse fascia between eyes black ; pronotum 

 pale castaneous, lateral and posterior margins stramineous ; meso- 

 notum castaneous, with four large obconical spots (the two central 

 ones smallest), a central lanceolate spot, and two small spots in 

 front of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen black, the posterior 

 segmental margins and tympanal coverings ochraceous ; head 



