74 



CICADID^, 



shortly angulate ; abdomen longer than space between apex of 

 head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympanal orifices completely 

 covered ; opercula short and broad ; meso- and metasterna cen- 

 trally sulcata ; legmina opaque with the venation dense and 

 furcate, reticulate towards apex, all the areas numerous and 

 ill-defined. 



1555, Polyneura ducalis, IVestw. Arcan. Entom. i, p. 92, t. xxiv, f. 2 

 (1842) ; A7ny. &f Serv. Hem. p. 460 (1843) ; Atkins. J. A. S. 

 Bern/, liii, p. 211 (1885) ; Dist. Mon. Orient, dead. p. 23, tab. 

 ii, f." 7, a, b (1889). 



Body above and beneath black, beneath somewhat strongly 

 greyishly tomentose ; anterior lateral margins of vertex of head, 

 margins of pronotum, and sometimes two discal spots to mesonotum 

 ochraceous ; femora reddish, their bases and apices and the tibiae 



Fig. 38. — Pohincura ducalis. 



and tarsi black, in some specimens the coxae are also reddish ; teg- 

 mina opaque, brownish, the venation, costal membrane and area, 

 claval margin and a subcentral transverse line or narrow fascia 

 ochraceous, before this Hue the ground-colour is darker in hue : 

 wings ochraceous, in some specimens with paler irrorations ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxae. 



Length excl. tegm. 35 to 37 ; exp. tegm. 100 to 110 millim. 



Hab. Nepal (Bardivicl-e) ; North-western Province, Eanikhet 

 (Ind. Mks.), Mussooree {Maclcinnon). Sikhim and Assam {Ind. 

 Mus.). Darjiling {Coll. Dist.). Burma; Kangoou (Coll. Dist.). — 

 Se-Tchouen {Paris 2Ius.). Chinese Tibet {Coll. Dist.). 



Division T AC U ARIA. 

 Tacuaria, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xiv, p. 300 (1904). 

 Lateral margins of the pronotum convex, but not angularly 



