132 CICADID^. 



anterior obconical spots, a straight longitudinal fascia continued 

 from between them, a spot at each anterior angle of the basal 

 cruciform elevation, and a broad continuous sublateral fascia pre- 

 ceded by a small spot on anterior margin black ; abdomen above 

 irregularly greyishly pilose, the extreme margins of the first and 

 second segments, a central longitudinal spot on first segment, 

 broad discal fascia to third segment, two small central spots on 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth segments, and lateral marginal spots black; 

 body beneath and legs ochraceous, central fascia to face and the 

 rostrum stramineous ; apical spots to coxae, and basal and apical 

 annulatious to femora and tibite, black ; tegmina and wings hya- 

 line, venation fuscous or ochraceous, the tegmina spotted at apices 

 of ulnar and apical areas ; rostrum passing the posterior coxse ; 

 opercula oblique, not reaching apex of second abdominal segment 

 and not meeting inwardly. 



Length excl. tegm., rT , 26 ; exp. tegm. 70 millim. 



Hah. Mussooree (MacJcinnon). 



This species is allied to T. maculijyes, from which it differs by 

 the shorter, broader, and more darkly marked abdomen. 



Genus CICADATRA. 



Cicudatra, Anu/ot, An7i. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 153 [349], f. 62; 



Fieb. Rev. Mag. Zool (3) iv, p. 42 (1876) ; Dist. Mon. Orient. 



Cicad. p. 133 (1892). 

 Cicada, subgen. Cicadatra, Kolenat. Melet. Entomol. p. 9 (1857). 

 Tettigia, subgeii. Cicadatra, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861, p. 617. 



Type, C. atra. Oliv., a Palaearctic species. 



Distrihution. Palaearctic, just entering British India. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than base of mesonotum, its 

 length less than width between eyes, but about as long as pro- 

 notum ; pronotum much shorter than mesonotum, its lateral 

 margins more or less obliquely straight, its posterior lateral angles 

 a little ampliated ; mesonotum convex ; abdomen in male as long 

 as space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; 

 tympanal coverings both narrower and shorter than tympanal 

 orifices ; opercula in male short aud transverse, not extending 

 beyond the base of abdomen ; anterior femora spined beneath ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the first sometimes a little maculate, 

 its greatest width more than a third of length, apical areas eight ; 

 wings with six apical areas. 



A. Tef/mina and luings immaculate. 



1630. Cicadatra sankana, Dist. (Tibicen) Tr. E. S. 1904, p. 675, 

 pi. XXX, f. 8, a, b. 



S . Head black, anterior margins and three small basal spots 

 ochraceous, eyes and ocelli castaneous ; pronotum castaneous, 

 lateral and posterior margins and two central spots, both on 



