108 CICADldS. 



black ; mesonotum with a central longitudinal lanceolate spot, on 

 each side of which is an irregularly black-margined obconical spot, 

 follow^ed by a small anterior spot, and a wide submarginal fascia, 

 black ; abdomen dull sanguineous, with a central segmental series 

 of transverse spots (sometimes very large and subconfluent) and 

 lateral segmental series of smaller spots black ; head beneath 

 and sternum greyishly pubescent ; abdomen beneatii dull 

 sanguineous ; opercula in male pale sanguineous ; legs ochraceous ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, venation ochraceous on basal, fuscous 

 on apical areas ; costal membrane to tegmina ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegm., cJ ? 33 ; exp. tegin. 85 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Ind. Miis.). Assam ; Margherita (Dohertij), N. 

 Khasi Hills {ChenneU). 



a'. OpercvJa renchinr/ penidthnate ahdominal se[/ment, their 

 ojnceii acutelij pointed. 



1599. Meimima tavoyana, Dist. (Dundubia) A. M. N. H. (H) i, 



p. 292 (1888) ; id. (Cosmopsal trial Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 55, t. v, 

 f. 4, a, b (1890). 



Above resembling in size, general hue, and markings M. 

 tripurasura., but differing remarkably from that species by the size 

 and shape of the opereuhi, which have their apices somewhat 

 acutely pointed and reaching the penultimate abdominal segment, 

 with their outer lateral margins a little concave near base, convex 

 about m.iddle, aud somewhat profoundly concave towards their 

 apices, their colour is also pale olivaceous-green. 



Length excl. tegm. 30 ; exp. tegm. 80 millim. 



Hah. Burma {Bingham). Tenasserim ; Tavoy {lad. Mus.). 



a^. Opercula reaching third ahdominal segment; suhtriangidar, 

 a little sinuate outwardlg, ohliquelg straight imvardhj, apices 

 suhacute. 



1600. Meimuna ganameda, Dist. (Cosmopsaltria) Entomohf/tst, 1903, 



p. 25(J; Melich. Horn. Ceylon, p. 4 (1903). 



c? . Head and pronotum greenish-ochraceous — possibly pale 

 green in fresh specimens : head with black striae on each side of 

 front, leaving a pale spot at base aud a smaller spot at apex, 

 vertex with the area of ocelli connected with a lateral sti'eak 

 black ; pronotum with two central lines connected anteriorly, two 

 small spots at centre of posterior margin, and the incisures black ; 

 mesonotum with a central longitudinal line, on each side of which 

 is a shorter and broader curved linear fascia, followed on each side 

 by two smaller anterior spots, a linear fascia on each lateral area, 

 aud two spots in front of cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen 

 brownish-ochraceous, the lateral and basal areas paler ochraceous, 

 sparingl}^ greyishly pilose and with a small black spot on basal 

 segment; sternum, rostrum, legs, and opercula pale ochraceous; 

 abdomen beneath brownish-ochraceous ; basal margin of face 



