136 CICADID.'E. 



and third apical areas (sometimes only first and second) broadly 

 and darkly infuscated ; rostrum with its apex black and about 

 reaching posterior coxae. 



Length excl. tegm. 19 to 32; exp. tegm. 50 to 85 niillira. 



Hah. Quetta {Bnt. Mus.). " North India" {Stevens, Brit. Mus.), 

 — Distributed over a considerable portion of the Palaearctic Eegion ; 

 Turkestan ; Tashkend. Persia. Afghanistan. 



A large varietal form from Quetta is figured above. 



b'. Tegmina and ivings semi-opaque. 

 a". Rostrum just passing intermediate coxa'. 



1634, Sena rugipennis, Walk. (Cicada) Ins. Saund., Hum. p. 17 (1858) ; 

 Dist. (Cicadatra) Mon. Orie7it. dead. p. 135, t. xii, f. 7, a, b 

 (1892). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; abdominal segmental margins piceous ; 

 tegmina and wings talc-like, semi-hyaline, their extreme bases 

 ochraceous ; tegmina with the venation ochraceous, but becoming 

 fuscous on apical area, costal membrane ochraceous, transverse 

 veins at bases of second, third, and fifth apical areas infuscated ; 

 wings with the venation ochraceous, transverse veins at bases o£ 

 first, second, and third apical areas broadly piceous. 



Length excl. tegm., $ , 30 ; exp. tegm. 90 millim. 



Hah. " Hindostan " {Brit. Mus.). 



Of this very distinct species 1 have only seen the unique female 

 type in the British Museum. 



B. Abdomen not longer than space hetween apex of head, and base of 

 cruciform elevation. 



b. Tegmina and wings tmspoited, hyaline. 



a^. Rostrum about reaching intermediate coxa'. 



1635. Sena ached, Hist. (Tibicen) A. 31. N. H. (6) i, p. 373 (1888) ; 

 id. (Cicadatra) Mo7i. Orient, dead. p. 136, t. xv, f. 3, a, b 

 (1892). 



Head black, ocelli red, eyes brownish-ochraceous ; pronotum 

 black, with a central longitudinal fascia and the posterior margin 

 yellow, and with two large discal reddish spots ; mesonotum black, 

 with two faiut yellowish central fasciae extending a short distance 

 from anterior margin; abdomen black, the lateral areas and apex 

 more or less reddish ; face, sternum, and femora yellow ; a central 

 longitudinal fascia to face, head beneath (excluding face), apices of 

 femora, the tibiae and tarsi black ; abdomen beneath dull reddish ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, venation blackish or olivaceous, costal 

 membrane to tegmina olivaceous ; rostrum with the apex piceous 

 and about reaching the intermediate coxae ; opercula in male yellow, 

 short, broad, obliquely rounded and not meeting inwardly. 



Length excl. tegm., J , 25 ; exp. tegm. 72 millim. 



Hah. Kashmir Valley, 6300 feet {Leech). 



