86 CICADIDJE. 



apices of tibife and tarsi piceous ; tegmina and wings pale hyaline, 

 the venation ochraceous towards base and fuscous towards apex ; 

 tegmina with the costal membrane ochraceous to apex of radial 

 area and tlience piceous, the basal cell and narrow bases of both 

 tegmina and wings piceous ; opercula about half the length of 

 abdomen, their lateral margins somewhat strongly oblique; rostrum 

 about reaching the posterior coxae. 



Length exel. tegm., cJ 58, § 22; exp. tegm., S 8*^, 2 

 70 millim. 



Hah. Bombay (2i. 3J. Divon). 



This species greatly resembles the genus Cicada, and I was so 

 misled by the general similarity that I originally described it in 

 that genus, not having searched for the metasternal process. 



eee. Siw.cies at present only Icnoiun to ivriter bj/ female specimens : 

 description of opercula therefore imp>ossible. 



1571. Cryptotynipana exalbida, Dist. Mon. Orient, dead. p. 92, 

 t. xiii, f. 12, a, b (1891). 



5 . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum castaneous, abdomen 

 black ; head \\\i[\ lateral striations to front and the vertex black, 

 eyes ochraceous ; pronotum with two central fasciate spots 

 anteriorly widened, a transverse linear mark at front of anterior 

 margin, hinder edge of posterior margin and a short transverse 

 central fascia to same black, anterior halves of lateral margins 

 cretaceously tomentose ; mesonotum with four central obconical 

 spots (of which the central two are shortest), abroad lateral fascia, 

 a central lanceolate spot, and two small spots in front of cruci- 

 form elevation black ; abdomen sparingly griseously pilose ; body 

 beneath black; sternum and lateral areas of abdomen thickly 

 griseously pilose ; face castaneous, its transverse striations and 

 longitudinal sulcation and space between face and eyes black ; 

 coxal spots black ; legs castaneous, anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae and tarsi black, intermediate tibife with a subbasal castaneous 

 annulation, apices of posterior tibiae and bases of posterior tarsi 

 black ; anal appendage with an ochraceous spot on each side ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, venation ochraceous and fuscous ; 

 tegmina with costal membrane ochraceous, postcostal area black, 

 basal cell ochraceous, its upper half black, extreme basal area and 

 a broad claval streak black ; wings narrowly black at base. 



Length excL tegm., $,32; exp. tegm. 95 millim. 



Hab. Sikhim {Coll. Dist.). Ni?giri Hills {Hampso7i). 



1 have not seen the male of this species. 



D, Tegmina to about end of basal cell only moderately infnscate. 



>72. Cryptotympana varicolor, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xiv, p. 430 

 (1904). 



$ . Body browuish-ochraceous : pronotum with two inwardly 



