138 cicadid;e. 



b. Lateral pronoUd margins a little ampliated and tootlied. 



1637. Calcagninus nilgiriensis, Dist. (Leptopsaltria) A. M. N. H. (5) 



XX, p. 2:^8 (1887) ; id. (Calcagninus) Mo7i. Orient, dead. p. 137, 

 t. viii, f. 15, rt, 6(1892). 



Head and thorax above olivaceous-greeu ; head with the front 

 broadly raari^ined Mith black, the vertex with a streak behind eyes, 

 some irregular anterior markings, and area of ocelH black ; 

 pronotum with two central longitudinal fasciae united posteriorly, 

 on each side of these a curved discal fascia, and the incisures 

 broadly piceous ; mesonotuin with a central longitudinal lanceolate 

 fascia, on each side of which is an anterior obconical spot, followed 

 by a small spot on anterior margin, a broad sublateral fascia, and 

 two spots in front of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen more 

 ochraceous in hue, the segmental margins narrowly black, and with 

 two discal series of large spots and a marginal series of smaller 

 spots on each side piceous ; head beneath, sternum, and legs 

 olivaceous-green : anterior margin and two central fasciae to face, 

 some irregular spots between face and eyes, base and apex of 

 abdomen beneath, apices of femora, tibiae, and tarsi more or less 

 piceous ; apex of rostrum piceous and just passing the posterior 

 coxai ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation alternately black 

 and ochraceous ; tegmina with a few obscure black markings at 

 base, the costal membrane greenish-ochraceous, an ochraceous and 

 fuscous spot at base of upper ulnar area, and the transverse veins 

 at bases of second and third apical areas in male, and the three 

 upper apical areas in female, infuscated, in some specimens there 

 are a submarginal series of small fuscous spots near the apices of 

 the longitudinal veins to apical areas, while in some other varieties 

 the tegmina are practically unspotted. 



Length excl. tegm., d" & $ ,16 to 22; exp. tegm. 50 to 57 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills, northern slopes {Hampson). 



Genus GUDABA, nov. 



Type, G. marginata, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma. 



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

 length about equal to the space between eyes, front prominent; 

 pronotum about as long as head, its lateral margins obliquely 

 straight, its posterior lateral angles augulated ; abdomen somewhat 

 cylindrical, longer than space between apex of head and base of 

 cruciform elevation ; tympanal coverings very much shorter and 

 narrower than tlie tympanal orifices ; second and third ventral 

 segments in male furnished with a tubercle near each lateral 

 margin, that on the second segment longest; opercula in male short, 

 transverse, not passing basal abdominal segment ; anterior femora 

 strongly spined beneath ; rostrum about reaching the posterior 

 coxae ; tegmina and wings hyaline ; tegmina with eight, wings with 

 five apical areas. 



