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Division IIUECHYSARTA. 

 Huechysaria, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xv, p. 481 (1905). 



Tegmiua and wings opaque or semiopaque ; lateral margins of 

 the pronotum neither ampliate nor dentate ; ahdomen moderately 

 robust but not transverse, longer than space between apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana completely exposed, 

 tynapaual coverings entirely absent ; tegmina with the apical areas 

 variable in number, either eight or ten, or variably fluctuating 

 between those numbers. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



A. Head with the fixce lougitudinally sulcate. 



a. Head (including eyes) narrower than 



base of me,sonotuni. 



a. Tegmiua with ten apical areas, in 



some varieties only nine. 

 d' . Head longer than pronotum, front 

 produced, but not excavated. 

 a^. Mesonotum (including cruciform 



elevation) longer than pronotum. Graptotettix, p. 15-5. 



b. Head (including eyes) as wide as base of 



mesonotum. 



b. Tegmina with eight apical areas, in 



some varieties nine or ten. 

 b' . Head about as long as pronotum. 

 6'-. Mesonotum (including cruciform 

 elevation) scarcely longer than 

 pronotum Huechys, p. 157. 



B. Head with the face not sulcate Scieropteka, p. 358. 



Genus GRAPTOTETTIX. 



Graptotettix, Stdl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 4 (1866) ; id. Berl. eat. Zeit. 

 X, p. 170 (1866) ; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 109 (1892). 



Type, G. guttatus, Stal. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



Body modei'ately long and robust ; head (including eyes) narrower 

 than base of mesonotum, front long, convexly and somewhat flatly 

 produced, a little shorter than vertex, the lateral margins of both 

 discontinuous ; pronotum a little shorter than head, its lateral 

 margins nearly straight, the posterior lateral angles lobately 

 produced; mesonotum (including cruciform elevation) longer than 

 pronotum ; abdomen longer than space between apex of head and 

 base of cruciform elevation; tympana completely exposed, tympanal 

 coverings entirely absent ; opercula in male short, broad, not 

 extending beyond base of abdomen ; anterior femora strongly 

 spined beneath ; tegmina more or less opaque, apical areas usually 

 ten, sometimes only nine in number, basal cell much longer than 

 broad ; wings semi-opaque or subhyaline. 



