80 CICAUlDvE. 



and should it prove (when more material is available for study) 

 to be scarcely a distinct species, it is at all events a distinct local 

 race. 



1562. Rihana germana, Dist. (Cicada) Anii. Mns. Civ. Gen. xxvi, 

 p. 457, t. iv, f. 3, a, b (1888) ; id. Mon. Orient. Cicacl. p. 97 

 (1892). 



Body above dull reddish-ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous ; 

 head with a broad anterior niargin to front, inner margins of eyes 

 and a fascia between them, black ; pronotum with two central 

 fasciate lines anteriorly diverging towards eyes, anterior margin 

 and inner edge of posterior margin, black ; mesonotum with four 

 obconical spots (the outermost longest and inwardly ochraceous) 

 and a central lanceolate fascia black ; abdomen with the segmental 

 margins black, the lateral areas and anal segment distinctly ochra- 

 ceously pilose ; body beneath and legs pale reddish-ochraceous ; 

 sternum and lateral abdominal areas ochraceously pilose ; apex of 

 rostrum black and just passing the intermediate coxa3 ; tegmina 

 and wings hyaline, the venation olivaceous ; tegmina with the 

 costal membrane green, postcostal area black ; opercula rounded 

 posteriorly, not overlapping inwardly and not reaching base o£ 

 abdomen. 



Length excl. tegm., d , 30 ; exp. tegm. 85 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Teinzo (Feci) — Penang Hills {Flower). Siam 

 Malay States ; Biilsit Besar (Annandcde). 



Genus CRYPTOTYMPANA. 



Crvptotympana, Stdl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (18Gl)p. 613; id. Hem. 

 Afr. IV, p. 6 (1866) ; Dist. Man. Orient, dead. p. So (1891). 



Type, G. pustulata, Fabr., a Malayan species also found in China 

 and Japan. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion, Malayan Archipelago (probably 

 not extending eastwai'd beyond the Philippines), and the extreme 

 eastern portion of the Palsearctic Region. 



Head broad, more or less transversely truncate between the 

 eyes, including which it is a little broader than the base of meso- 

 notum, its length only slightly more than half the breadth between 

 eyes, ocelli about twice the distance from eyes as from each 

 other, front slightly prominent ; pronotum about as long as meso- 

 notum, its lateral margins oblique, the posterior angles a little 

 ampliate; abdomen in male about as long as space between apex 

 of head and base of cruciform elevation, the tympanal orifices 

 concealed by the tympanal coverings ; opercula in male well 

 developed, varying in shape and size ; metasternum elevated at 

 middle and furnished with a posterior process directed backward ; 

 anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; tegmina hyaline or semi- 

 opaque, basal cell longer than broad ; apical areas eight. 



