94 CICADID.E. 



Genus DUNDUBIA. 



Dimduhia, Amy. Si- Serv. Hem. p. 470 (1843); Stdl, Hem. Afr.iv, 

 p. 5 (1866) ; Bist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 38 (1889). 



Type, B. mannifera, Linn. 



Bistribufioii. Oriental and Malayan Eegions ; also found in 

 North Australia. 



Body long and robust : head somewhat triangularly elongate, 

 about as long as pronotum, the front large and convex, about 

 twice as broad at its base as the length of the anterior margins of 

 the lobes of vertex, ocelli a little farther apart from eyes than 

 from each other; pi-onotum almost as long as mesonotura, the 

 lateral margins not prominently ampliated but distinctly toothed ; 

 abdomen a little longer than space between apex of head and base 

 of cruciform elevation ; tympana completely covered ; opercula in 

 male long and extending beyond middle of abdomen ; rostrum 

 scarcely reaching the posterior coxae ; anterior femora spined ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the first with the venation normal, 

 the apical areas eight in number, and the basal cell twice as long- 

 as broad. 



a. Opercula in male reaching penultimate abdominal segment, 

 concavely simiate on each side near base, and thence convexly 

 ampliated, especialhj on inner margins, apnces narroived and 

 obtvselij rounded. 



1580. Dundubia mannifera, Linn. (Cicada) Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 84 



(1754), excl. syn. ; Stal, Berl. ent. Zeit. x, p. 170 (1866) ; 



Bist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 39, t. iv, f. 17, a, h, and var. 



10, a, h (1889). 

 Tettigonia vaginata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 266 (1787). 

 Cicada viresceus, OHv. Enc. Meth. v, p. 747 (1790). 

 Dundubia immacula, Wall;. List Horn, i, p. 50 (1850). 

 Dundubia nigrimacida 4' sobiia, Walk. he. cit. p. 63. 

 Dundubia varians, Walk, {nee Germ.) TValk. lac. cit. p. 48. 

 Fidiciiia continis, Walk. J. Linn. Soc, Zool. x, p. 92 (1807). 

 Sfoll, C'iff. f. 35. 

 Vcir. teipsichore, Walk. (Cephaloxys) List Horn, i, p. 239 (1850) ; 



Atkins. (Mogannia) J. A. S. Beng. hii, p. 2-33 (1885); Bist. 



(Dundubia) Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 39, t. xii, f. l,a,b (1889). 



Body green, pale ochraceous, or green and dark ochraceous ; 

 abdomen above with some small lateral black spots, which are 

 most distinct in the paler-coloured specimens ; tegmina and wings 

 pale hyaline, the venation and the costal membrane of tegmina 

 pale brownish or ochraceous ; rostrum just passing the inter- 

 mediate 00X36. 



The var. terpsicliore, Walk., differs only from the typical foi'm 

 of the species by the somewhat shorter opercula, by a slio-]i 

 bronzy tinge to the apices of the tegmina in the male, and by the 



