82 CICADID.I. 



aa. Tegmina ivitli blach hasal coloration not extending 

 beyond hasal cell. 



e. Oj)ercida in male reaching ijenidtimate ahdominal segment, 

 inner marc/ins straiglit, not overlapping, apical margins 

 strongly concavely sinuate, their apices curved imvards. 



1564. Cryptotympana edwardsi, Kirk. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv, p. 55 

 (1902). 



■ Allied to C. corvns, but differing principally by the size and 

 shape of the opercula in male, ^vhich reach the penultimate abdo- 

 minal segments ; the abdomen beneath is uniformly ochraceous, 

 black at base and apex, but Avithout the central black longitudinal 

 fascia ; mesonotum with four dark distinct obconical spots and a 

 similar central lanceolate spot ; front \\\i\\ a central longitudinal 

 line, pronotum with a similar line on its anterior area and 

 its posterior margins ochraceous ; tegmina with the black basal 

 area not extending beyond basal cell, and M'iugs narrowly black 

 at base. 



Length excl. tegm. 46| ;- exp. tegm. 115 millim. 



Hah. " India " {Coll. Edwards). 



CO. Ojiercida in male about half as long as ahdomen, their Older 

 margins rejlexed, very slightly oblique, their apical margins 

 straightly not concavely oblique. 



1565. Cryptotympana intermedia, Sie/n. (Cicada) Hev. May. Zool. 

 1849, p. 407, t. X, f. 2 ; Stal (Cryptotympaua), Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 1861, p. 613; Atkins. J. A. S. Beny. liii, p. 231 (1885); 

 Dist. Man. Orient. Cicad. p. 88, t. xi, f. 1, a, b (1891) ; Melich. 

 Horn. Faim. Ceylon, p. 6 (1903). 

 Fidicina immaciilata, Walk. {7iec Oliv.) List Horn, i, p. 90 (1850). 



Body above blaclv or dark castaneous ; mesonotum with two 

 obscure central obcouical spots and the basal cruciform elevation 

 castaneous ; tympanal coverings dark castaneous ; body beneath 

 black, somewhat thickly greyishlv pilose (excepting the central 

 disk of abdomen) ; femoral and tibial streaks, posterior tibiae 

 (excluding bases and apices), and the opercula ochraceous ; teg- 

 mina and wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous ; tegmina with 

 the costal membrane and postcostal area ochraceous, extreme basal 

 costal edge black, basal cell and basal patch (excluding venation) 

 brownish-ochraceous or black ; wings with about basal fifth 

 brownish-ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegm., c?, 44 ; exp. tegm. 127 millim. 



Hah. North Bengal (Brit. Mus.). Mussooree {Macl'innon). 

 Ceylon, Matale {Green); Dambula, Mikintale, Nalanda {fide 

 Melichcir). — Java ( iide Signorct). 



