68 CICADID^. 



margins and tympanal coverings dull ocbraceous ; body beneath 

 and legs dull ocbraceous ; abdomen thickly greyishly pilose ; a 

 transverse fascia between ejes and central sulcatiou to face, some 

 sternal spots, basal areas of opercula, and apex of rostrum black ; 

 tegmina hyaline, about basal half opaque, veins and costal mem- 

 brane brownish -ocbraceous, the last with two brown spots, a basal 

 patch, a broad transverse fascia at about one-third from base and 

 a waved fascia united to it at apex of radial area, transverse veins 

 at bases of apical areas, and a series of small spots near apices of 

 longitudinal veins to apical areas dark chocolate-brown, space 

 between basal fascise and a spot near apex of radial area creamy- 

 white ; wings dark chocolate-brown, with basal sanguineous rays, 

 and the outer margin (not extending to anal angle) pale white 

 hyaline. 



Yar. a. "Wings with a subcostal ocbraceous patch. 



Var. 6. AVings ocliraceous, the outer area only chocolate-brown^ 

 and the sanguineous rays entirely absent. 



Length excL tegm. 24 to 26 ; exp. tegm. 73 to 85 ; breadth 

 between pronotal angles l-tmillim. 



Bah. Pan jab ; Wazeerabad (Hearsay); North Bengal {Camp- 

 hell) ; Kaina Tal {Stockh. IIus.). Mussooree {Maclinuon) ; Eaj- 

 pootana ; Mt. Aboo (Ind. Mus.). Jodhpoor and Sambalpoor 

 {Ind. 31us.). Karachi (Ind. Mus.). Bombay (Leith). Ivarvvar 

 (Coll. Dist.). Comihatove (Walhottse). JN'ilgiri Hills (Hampson). 

 Shivarai Hills (Bidie 4' Morris). Mhow (ForsayetJi, Brit, Mus.). 

 Ceylon (Green). 



A very variable species. 



bbbb. Tegmina and ivings u'holly ojiaque ; irronotal margins 

 medially angidate ; rostrum reaching base of abdomen. 



1548. Platypleura andamana, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1878, p. 174 ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. Beng. liii, p. 1*14 (1885) ; Dist. (rcecilopsaltria) Mon. 

 Orient. Cicud. p. 17, tab. i, f. 9, a, b (1889). 



Tawny-brown, pubescent ; head with a spot on each side of 

 front and a transverse fascia between eyes black ; pronotum with 

 two small central posterior spots and the incisures black ; meso- 

 notum with four obconical spots (the two central smallest), 

 a central lanceolate spot, and two small spots in front of cruciform 

 elevation black ; abdomen black, posterior segmental margins dull 

 ocbraceous and strongly and palely pilose; body beneath and legs 

 brownish-ochraceous ; tegmina brown, opaque with pale semi- 

 opaque markings, especially on apical half, basal third thickly 

 covered with pale pubescence and containing five dark brown 

 spots — two in radial area, one at base of third and two in fourth 

 ulnar area, remainder of tegmina less pubescent with numerous 

 greyish-white spots, the most prominent being a transverse series 

 at end of apical area and a waved series commencing about middle 

 of upper ulnar area, where they are very distinct beneath, a double 



