96 cicadid.t;. 



aaa. Opercula in male elongate and narroiv, reacldng penultimate 

 abdominal segment, their basal areas inivardly curved, their 

 apical areas long, slender, acutelg j^'^^'^^^'^^^ ^'^ apices. 



1582. Dundubia intemerata, Walk. J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 84 

 (18."i6): Atkins. J. A. S. Benq. liii, p. 224 (1885); Dist. Mon. 

 Orient, dead. p. 42, t. iv, f. \,a,h (1889). 



(^ fBody green, ocbraceous, or with the abdomen above ochraceous ; 

 ocelU red ; eyes dark castaneous or fuscous ; rostrum, coxje, tarsi, 

 and apices o£ tibise ochraceous ; apex of rostrum and the tarsal 

 claws black ; tegmiaa and wings pale hyaline, their extreme bases, 

 venation, and costal membrane of the first greenish-ochraceous ; 

 rostrum about reaching the posterior coxae, a character belonging 

 to the following genus {Cosmo psaltria), but the structure of the 

 head is of the strictly Bundubian character. 



Length excl. tegra., c? 28 to 30, $ 26 to 28 ; exp. tegm., 

 S 78 to 85, $ 74 to 78 millim. 



Mab. Assam ; Margherita (Dohertg), Khasi Hills (Ohenncll), 

 Sibsagar (Ind. Mas.). Teuasserim ; Myitta Valley (DoJierty). — 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Mr. Annandale states that at certain seasons this Cicada forms 

 a regular article of diet among the Siamese inhabitants of 

 Patulung, who capture it by the following peculiar method : — 

 " Immediately after the sun had set several of the natives 

 gathered in an open space, round a fire of brushwood or a number 

 of tox'ches fastened to stakes stuck in the ground, and commenced 

 to clap their hands in unison, observing a regular time and 

 rhythm. Very soon, if they were fortunate, the Cicadas flew out 

 from the undergrowth of the surrounding orchards and jungle, 

 and alighted on the persons of their captors, who had no difficulty 

 in picking off the insects." (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 859.) 



Genus COSMOPSALTRIA. 



Cosmopsaltria, Stdl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 5 (1866) ; id. Berl. ent. Zeit. 

 X, p. 170 (1866). 



Type, C. doryca, Boisd., from Papuana. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions ; also recorded 

 from Corea and Japan. 



Body moderately long and robust, head as long as breadth 

 between eyes, and including eyes as wide as base of mesonotum, 

 with the front not twice as broad at base as anterior margins of 

 the lobes of vertex, lateral margins obliquely continuous to front 

 or very slightly sinuate ; pronotum about as long as head, its 

 lateral margins scarcely ampliated, but distinctly toothed or 

 angulated ; mesonotum slightly longer than pronotum ; abdomen 

 short, about as long as space between apex of head and base of 

 cruciform elevation ; tympana covered ; opercula in male broad, 

 either just or longly passing middle of abdomen, well separated 



