CALCAGNINUS. 13'J 



Genus CALCAGNINUS. 



Calcagninus, Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. pp. 31 & 13G (1889 & 1892). 



Type, C. 2)icturatus, Dist. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Head (including eyes) about as broad as base oE mesonotum, its 

 length about half the width between eyes, ocelli not quite twice 

 the distance from eyes as from each other ; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins sometimes slightly auipliated and more or less 

 distinctly toothed, or nearly straight with only the posterior 

 angles ampliated ; abdomen longer than space between the apex 

 of head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympanal coverings 

 rudimentary, oidy covering the tympanal orifices at base ; second 

 and third ventral segments in male furuislied with a well-developed 

 tubercle near each lateral margin ; anterior femora distinctly spined 

 beneath ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxae; tegmina and ^^•ings 

 hyaline, the first usually slightly maculate and possessing eight 

 apical areas ; wings with six apical areas. 



a. Lateral pronotal margins straigJit, not ampliated. 



1636. Calcagninus picturatus, Dist. (Leptopsaltria) A. M. N. H. 

 (6) i, p. 370 (1888) ; id. (Calcaguinus) Mon. Orient. Cicad. 

 p. 136, t. viii, f. 13, a, b (1892). 



Body above brownish-ocliraceous ; head (excluding base) much 



. suffused with piceous, ocelli red, eyes castaneous ; pronotum with 



a central, longitudinal, fuscous fascia, the margins of which are 



black, and \\hich is ampliated anteriorly, and with an oblong 



piceous fascia near each lateral 

 margin ; mesonotum with a 

 central, longitudinal, lanceo- 

 late fascia, on each side of 

 which is a curved linear discal 

 fascia, a broad sublateral 

 fascia, and two spots in 

 front of cruciform elevation 

 Vig.b^.—Calcagninus picturatus. piceous ; abdomen sparingly 



grevishly pilose, with a double 

 discal series and more continuous lateral marginal series of piceous 

 spots, base of anal segment also piceous, anal appendage pale 

 ochraceous; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation fuscous; tegmina 

 with a small ochraceous and fuscous spot at base of upper ulnar 

 area, and the transverse veins at bases of second and third apical 

 areas infuscated * ; rostrum with its apex piceous and just passing 

 posterior coxae ; face discally depressed and somewhat flattened. 

 Length excl. tegm., J , 15; exp. tegm. 44: millim. 

 Hah. Nilgiri Hills, northern slopes {Hampson). 



* A character omitted by the artist in the above figure. 



