PYCNA. 71 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, tympanal coverings, sternum, 

 rostrum, and legs pale olivaceous-brown ; abdomen black, the 

 segmental margins olivaceous ; opercula piceous, their margins 

 pale olivaceous-brown, sparingly ochraceously pilose above, more 

 thickly so beneath ; head with the area of the ocelli, a discal, 

 central, triangular spot and the incisures to pronotum, four ob- 

 conical spots (the two central much the shortest), a central 

 lanceolate spot, and two small rounded basal spots to mesonotum, 

 black ; tegmina with more than basal half pale brownish, opaque, 

 with darker spots and markings, radial area grey at base and 

 hyaline at apex, a hyaline spot in loA^er apical area, and an obscure 

 hyaline spot near the base of third and centre of fourth ulnar 

 areas, an oblique broad fuscous fascia crossing bases of first to 

 fifth apical areas, some small apical spots and still smaller fuscous 

 spots at apices of longitudinal veins to apical ai'eas ; wings ochra- 

 ceous, outer margins (particularly broad at apices) castaneous 

 brown ; apical margin to anal area hyaline. 



Length excl, tegm., c? & $ , 20 to 21 ; exp. tegm. 60 to Go milhm. 



Hah. Assam; Margherita(i5o/iert?/) ; N. Khusi Hills (C/<gmie?Z) ; 

 Naga Hills {Dolierty). 



Genus PYCNA. 



Pycna, Amy. S,- Serv. Hem, p. 463 (1843) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) 

 xiv, p. 208 (1904). 



Type, P. striv, Brulle ; a species found in Madagascar. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions, and received from 

 China. 



Allied to Plaii/pleura, from which it differs by the much 

 narrower head, which (including eyes) is only about, or little more 

 than, two-thirds the width of base of mesonotum ; the costal 

 membrane of tegmina is also prominently arched and dilated at 

 base. 



1553. Pycna repanda, Litm. (Cicada) Si/st. Nat. i, 2, p. 707. 17 (1767) ; 



Olii\ Enc. Meth. v, p. 754 (1790) ; Germ. i,i T/ion, Ent. 



Arch. \i, 2, p. 2 (18.30) ; Fabr. (Tettigonia) Sj). Ins. ii, p. .321. 16 



(1781) ; Atkins. (Platvplaura) J. A. -S'. Beng. Iv, p. 150 (1886) ; 



Bisi. Man. Orient. Cicad. p. 19, tab. i, f. 7, a, b (1889). 

 Platypleura phaL-enoides, Walk. List Horn, i, p. 4 (1850) ; Atkins. 



J. A. S. Bemj. liii, p. 211 (1885). 

 Platypleura interna, Walk. List Horn, iv, p. 1119 (1852). 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum greeuish-ochraceous ; head 

 with a spot on each side of base of front, a transverse fascia 

 between eyes, and some spots on disk of vertex black ; pronotum 

 with a central longitudinal fascia (widened posteriorly), incisures, 

 and anterior borders of dilated lateral margins black ; mesonotum 

 with four obconical spots (the two central shortest), a central 

 lanceolate spot, and two spots in frout of cruciform elevation 

 black ; abdomen above and beneath blackish, ochraceously pilose. 



