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Genus MOGANNIA. 



Mogannia, Ainy. Si- Serv. Hem. p. 4(37 (1843) ; Stal, Hem. Afr. iv, 



p. 5 (18G6) ; Bid. Mon. Orient, dead. p. 118 (1892). 

 Cephaloxys, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 294. 



Type, M. conica. Germ. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions, and found in East 

 China. 



Body short, broad, robust; head conically produced, including 

 eyes much ]]arro\ver than base of mesonotum, as long or slightly 

 longer than pronotam, front as loug or slightly longer than 

 vertex ; pronotum narrower anteriorly than posteriorly, the lateral 

 margins oblique, not ampliated, the posterior lateral angles a little 

 lobately rounded ; abdomen a little shorter or almost as long as 

 space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; 

 tympanal coverings small and rudimentary : anterior femora 

 spined beneath ; opercula in male small, usually obliquely convex 

 and not completely covering the cavities ; tegmina with their 

 basal halves usually more or less brilliantly coloured, sometimes 

 opaque, apical areas eight ; «'ings with six apical areas. 



1654. Mogannia conica, Germ. (Cicada) Thon's Arch. ii. 2, p. 39 



(1830) : Stal (Mogannia), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 483 ; 



Did. Mon. Orient, dead. p. 122, t. xiv, f. 18, a, b (1892). 

 Mogannia ilhistrata, Amj/. t^- Serv. Hem. p. 467, t. ix, f. 4 (1843). 

 Cephaloxys hemelytra. Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 295. 

 Mogannia indicaiis, iguifera, et avicula, Walk. List Horn, i, 



pp. 249, 250 (1850) ; tom. cit. iv, t. ii, f. v (1852). 

 Mogannia recta. Walk. Lid Horn. Siippl. p. 39 (1858). 

 Mogannia histrionica, Z7/i/e?-, Froc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1862, 



p. 283. 

 Mogannia venutissima, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1865, p. 154. 



Body and legs black, above with a more or less well-defined and 

 broken longitudinal, dull ochraceous fascia, extending from front 

 of head to apex of abdomen, and generally forming a more or less 

 distinct hourglass-shaped fascia on pronotum, in some specimens 

 this fascia is very indistinct ; face and disk of abdomen beneath 

 brownish-ochraceous, margins of coxae and trochanters pale 

 ochraceous ; tegmina pale hyaline ; the basal halves fuscous and 

 oemi-opaque, costal membrane and extreme base sanguineous ; 

 wings hyaline with their bases narrowly sanguineous. 



Var. a. ignifera. Walk. Body and legs brownish-ochraceous : 

 basal opaque coloration of tegmina pale ochraceous, outwardly 

 margined with fuscous near costal margin. 



Yar. b. indicans, Walk. = Idstrionica, Uhler. Body black or 

 brownish ; tegmina with the basal opaque area coutauiing a trans- 

 verse, curved, ochraceous or reddish fascia a little before its apex. 



Var. c. illustrata, Amy. & Serv. Tegmina with the opaque basal 

 area outwardly margined with fuscous and with an apical 

 ochraceous spot. 



