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CICADID^, 



rostrum piceous ; tegmina aud wings hyaline, venation mostly 

 fuscous ; tegmina with the transverse veius at bases of second and 

 third apical areas infuscated, and in some specimens with faint 

 and small marginal spots at apices of longitudinal veins to the 

 upper apical areas. 



Length excl. tegm., c^" , 19 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 50 to 55 millim. 

 Hah. Bombay {Dixon). Karwar {Coll. Dist.). Tenasserim ; 

 Thaungyin {Bingham). 



Genus LETHAMA. 

 Lethama, List. A. M. N. H. (7) xv, p. 307 (1905). 



Type, L. locnsta, Walk. 



Distrihution. British India. 



Head horizontal, as long as space between eyes, not anteriorly 

 deflected, front very prominent, margins of front and vertex 

 obliquely subcontinuous ; pronotum as long as mesonotum, its 

 lateral margins oblique, sinuate, obscurely dentate ; abdomen con- 

 siderably longer than space between apex of head and base of 

 cruciform elevation ; tympana imperfectly covered, the flaps 

 shorter and narrower than the tympanal cavities ; rostrum about 

 reaching the posterior cosfe ; anterior femora armed beneath with 

 two or three strong spines ; opercula extending to more than half 

 the length of the abdomen, situate wide apart and on the lateral 

 abdominal areas ; tegmina broad, their greatest breadth more than 

 one-third of their length, apical areas eight, basal cell much 

 longer than broad. 



1643. Lethama locusta. Walk. (Cephaloxys) List Horn. i. p. 236 

 (18.00) ; Athins. (Mogaunia) J. A. S. Beitg. liii, p. 233 (1885) ; 

 Dist. (Dundubia) 3Ion. Orient. Cicad. p. 41, t. ix, f. 1, a, b 



(1889). 



Body browuish-ochraceous ; pronotum with the margins paler 



in hue ; mesonotum w ith two obscure obconical spots on anterior 

 margin, their outer edges black, and two small dark spots in front 



