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c. Lateral margins of tympanal coverings 



convex; tegmina not more than [p. 117. 



three times longer than broad .... Oxcotympana, 



f. Lateral margins of tympanal coverings 

 sinuate, their posterior angles only 

 projecting beyond abdominal mar- 

 gins ; tegmina more than three 

 times longer than broad Mata, p. 119, 



Genus LEPTOPSALTRIA. 



Leptopsaltria (part.), Stal, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 5 (18(36) ; (part.) id. Berl. 

 ent. Zeit. x, p, 170 (1866) ; id. (part.) Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. 

 p. 31 (1889). 



Type, L. tuberosa, Sign. 



Distribution. Oriental and extreme eastern portion of the 

 Palaearctic Eegion. 



Head (including eyes), considerably narrower than base of meso- 

 notuni, ocelli not quite twice the distance from eyes as from each 

 other, front somewhat conical and subprominent ; pronotum with 

 the lateral margins moderately ampliated and more or less 

 distinctly toothed or angulated ; gense internally at apex near 

 base of lorse furnished with a tubercle or tumescence ; abdomen 

 moderately long and robust ; anterior femora distinctly and 

 robustly spined ; rostrum extending beyond the posterior coxoe ; 

 tympana covered ; opercula short ; second aud third abdominal 

 segments in the male furnished with a well-developed tubercle near 

 each lateral margin ; tegmina and wings hyaline ; venation 

 normal, tegminal apical areas eight in number. 



a. Ojjercula in male small, wide apart, longitudinal, their 

 aj^ices broadly convex. 



1573. Leptopsaltria tuberosa, Siyn. (Cicada) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1847, p. 299; Stdl (Leptopsaltria), Bei-l. ent. Zeit. x, p. 170 

 (1866) ; Dist. Mon. Orietit. Cicad. p. 34, t. viii, f. 7, a, b (1889). 



Body above brownish-ochraceous ; head with some lateral 

 curved fasciae to front, some oblique fasciae to vertex, area of 

 ocelli, and basal margin piceous or black ; pronotum with two 

 central longitudinal lines, the anterior margin, edge of lateral 

 margin, and a spot near each lateral area piceous ; mesonotum 

 with a narrow central longitudinal fascia, on each side of which is 

 a short curved fascia followed by a short triangular spot on 

 anterior margin, a broad oblique fascia on each lateral area uniting 

 with a large triangular spot in front of cruciform elevation, and a 

 fascia on each lateral margin uniting with the previous fascia at 

 base, piceous ; abdomen with the segmental margins piceous ; 

 body beneath and legs ochraceous, abdominal tubercles blackish ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation brownish ; tegmina with 



