120 



CICADIDJE. 



apex of bead and base of cruciform elevation ; tympanal orifices 

 completely covered, tympanal coverings with their outer margins 

 sinuate, the posterior angles only projecting beyond tbe lateral 

 margins of the abdomen ; metasternum prolonged in a broad, 

 oblong, laminate process between the opercula, which are short, 

 transverse, and not extending beyond the base of abdomen, their 

 lateral margins visible from above ; rostrum reaching the posterior 

 coxas ; anterior femora spined beneath ; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, maculate ; tegmina very long and narrow, more than 

 three times longer than broad, with eight apical areas and the 

 basal cell longer than broad ; wings with six apical areas. 



1615. Mata kama, Bist. (Pomponia) Tr.E. S. 1881, p. 643; id. Moii 

 Orie?it. Clcad. p. 78, t. vi, f. 12, a, b, (1891). 



Head, pronotom, and mesonotum greenish ; head with the lateral 

 margins of front, area of ocelli (from which two lines proceed to 

 posterior margin of vertex), and two transverse lines on its lateral 

 margins black ; pronotum with two central longitudinal much- 

 angulated fasciae, between which the colour is ochraceous, followed 

 on each side by a short diseal carved line, and some of the 

 incisures black, an oblique fuscous spot on lateral margins, posterior 

 margin narrowly edged with black ; mesonotum with two black- 

 margined obconical spots, a central lanceolate spot, and a linear 



angulate fascia in front of each anterior angle of cruciform eleva- 

 tion black ; abdomen castaneous : tympanal coverings pale green, 

 fuscous anteriorly, and cretaceous white near lateral margins ; 

 body beneatli with the head, sternum, and opercula more or less 

 greenish, abdomen castaneous ; central area to face and apex of 

 rostrum black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation fuscous ; 

 tegmina with the transverse veins at bases of second, third, fifth, 

 and seventh apical areas infuscated, and a marginal series of 

 fuscous spots at apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas. 



Length excl. tegra., J , 18 ; exp. tegm. i^Q millim. 



Hah. Darjiling {CoU. Dist.). Mungphu {Coll Atkinson). — Java. 



Division LAHUGADARIA. 



Lahugadaria, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xv, p. 304 (1905). 



In this division the lateral margins of the pronotum are not 

 dentate; the tympana are completely covered, the tympanal flaps 



