150 CICABID^. 



and abdomeu black, the first crossed by two discal longitudinal 

 ochraceoiis fasciae, the anterior angles of cruciform elevation, and 

 a spot on each side of base of same ochraceous ; body beneath 

 and legs black ; margins of the face and under surface of the 

 femora reddish-ochraceous ; a few obscure sternal ochraceous 

 spots ; tegmina dark bronzy-brown, the costal membrane, the 

 venation, a costal spot at base of upper ulnar area, beneath vA'hich 

 are two discal spots, and a subapical spot ochraceous ; wings 

 bluish-black tinged with carmine ; bases of both wings and tegmina 

 narrowly carmine-red. 



Var. a. Tegmina only possessing the lower discal spot, the 

 other spots obliterated. 



Length excl. tegm., c? , 22 ; exp. tegni. 54 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Teinzo (Feu). 



1652. Balinta delinenda, Dist. (Gteana) A. 31. N. II. (6) i, p. 291 

 (1888) ; id. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 108, t. iii, f. 16, a, b (1892). 

 Iluechys octouotata, Ti'alk. {nee Wcsho.) List Honi. i, p. 253 

 (1851). 



Body aboA'e brownish-ochraceous ; head \Aith the apex of front 

 and a transverse fascia extending across area of ocelli black ; 

 pronotuin with a central hourglass-shaped fascia, and two large 

 oblique spots on each side, black ; mesonotum with a central 

 fascia (somewhat similar to that on pronotum) and a large spot on 

 each lateral margin black ; cruciform elevation black, its anterior 

 angles ochraceous ; abdomen with the posterior segmental margins 

 black; body beneath and legs brownish-ochraceous; disk of face 

 and a spot before eyes black ; tegmina pale brownish-ochraceous ; 

 wings reddish-brown, with about basal third carmine-red. 



Length excl. tegm., c?, 19 ; exp. tegm. 47 millim. 



Ilah. Sylhet {Brit. Mus.). Cochin (^Coll Dist.). 



Genus TALAINGA. 



Talainga, Dist. A. 31. N.H. (G) v, p. 16G (1890) ; id. 31on. Orient. 

 Cicad. p. 109 (1892). 



Type, T. biw/harni, Dist. 



Distribution.. Burma, Tonkin, China. 



2 . Head (including eyes) a little narrower than base of 

 mesonotum, about as long as breadth between eyes, front globose 

 and prominent, shorter than vertex ; pronotum about as long- 

 as mesonotum, its lateral margins a little convex, angularly 

 incised before posterior angles which are ampliated ; abdomen 

 somewhat cylindrical, longer than space between apex of head and 

 base of cruciform elevation : Tympanal coverings small and lateral ; 

 anterior femora robustly spined beneath ; tegmina talc-like, semi- 

 opaque, the apical half with the venation reticulate and forming a 

 mass of small cellular areas, sometimes the ulnar areas are crossed 



