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series of small brown spots near apices of longitudinal veins to 

 apical areas, a dull whitish spot on inner angle of outer margin ; 

 wings very pale castaneous, with dark brown outer margin and 

 suffused darlv brown discal streaks. 



Length excl. tegm. 22 to 24| ; exp. tegm. 76| to 84 ; breadth 

 between pronotal angles 14 millim. 



Hab. Andaman Islds. {De Roepstorff). 



II. Head including eyes not, or scarcely, broader than base of 

 mesouotum ; pronotal margins medially augulate. 



a. Rostrum passing base of abdomen. 



1549. Platypleura nobilis. Germ. (Cicada) in Thon, Ent. Arch, ii, 2, 

 p. 2 (1830); iStal (Platvpleura), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, 

 p. 479; Atkins. J. A. S. Beni). liii, p. 215 (1885) ; Bist. Man. 

 Orient. Cicad. p. 21, tab. i, f.'l3, a, b (1889). 



Cicada hemiptera, Gner. B'elang. Voy. Ind. p. 500 (1S34). 



Platypleura seiuilucida, Walk. LiM Horn, i, p. 20 (1850). 



Platypleura gemina, Walk. List Horn, i, p. 21 (1850). 



Head, pronorum, and mesonotum brownish or greenish-ochra- 

 ceous ; head with the inner margins of eyes and a broken fascia 

 between them black ; pronotum with a central longitudinal 

 line, the incisures, and outer edges of dilated pronotal areas 

 black ; mesonotum with four obconical spots (the two central 

 shortest), a central lanceolate spot, and two small spots in front 



Fig. 35. — Vlatypleura nobilis. 



of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen greenish or brownish- 

 ochraceous, the segmental margins black ; body beneath ochraceous ; 

 central sulcation to face, fascia between eyes, some sternal spots, 

 metasternum at base of opercula, and apex of rostrum black ; 

 tegmina with about basal half creamy-ochraceous, opaque ; two 

 spots on costal membrane, basal cell, three spots in radial area, a 

 large spot on claval area, and a broad oblique fascia commencing 

 at end of radial area fuscous ; apical half pale hyaline, with a 

 subapical oblique waved fascia and a series of small spots near 

 apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas fuscous ; wings dark 

 fuscous-brown, with anal area and nearly apical third pale hyaline. 



