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CICADIDiE. 



and the apex black ; a transverse spot between face and eyes, 

 a small spot at apex of face, and the apex of rostrum black; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, venation brownish-ochraceous, fuscous 

 towards apical areas: tegmina with costal membrane brownish- 



Fig. 43. — Ptcrana tigrina. 



ochraceous, a small ochraceous spot near base of upper ulnar area ; 

 transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly 

 infuscated, and some small faint fuscous marginal spots near apex. 



Length excl, tegm., 6 , 24 to 27; exp. tegm. 68 millim. 



Hah. Malabar {Biit. Mus.). Trivandrum {Fer(jusso7i).— Tibet ; 

 Tsekou {Paris Mus.). Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley 

 {Distant). 



aa. Opercnia small, wide apart, apices convexly rounded. 



1577. Purana tigroides, Walk. (Duudubia) Ins. Sannd., Horn. p. 5 

 (1858) ; Dist. (Leptopsaltria) Mon. Orient, dead. p. 35, t. xii, 

 f. 18, «, 6(1889). * 



Closely allied to the preceding species (P. tigrina), but struc- 

 turally differing by the shape of the opercula ; the species is also 

 smaller in size; the transverse vein at the base of the second 

 apical area is much less oblique, and the face is less transversely 

 striated with black. 



Length excl. tegm. 22 ; exp. tegm. 60 miilim. 



Hah. "Hindostau" {Brit. Mus.). — Borneo {Paris 3Ius.). 



b. Opercxda ivide apart, and someivhat irregularly 

 rectangidar in shape. 



1578. Purana morrisi, Dist. (Leptopsaltria) Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 101, 

 t. XV, f. 19, a, b (1892). 



Body above ochraceous ; head with margins of front (excepting 

 apex), anterior angles of vertex, and reticulate markings covering 

 the whole of vertex black ; pronotum with two central longi- 



