nuECHYs. 157 



Genus HUECHYS. 



Huecliys, Amy. S,- Serv. Hem. p. 464 (1843) ; Stdl, Hem. Afr. \y, 

 p. 4 (1866) ; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. Ill (1892). 



Tj^pe, H. sangidnen, De Geer. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Hegions. 



Body of moderate size, somewhat slender ; head (including eyes) 

 about equal in width to base oi: mesonotura, front convexly some- 

 what flatly produced, shorter than vertex, their lateral margins 

 discontinuous ; pronotum as long as head, its lateral margins a 

 little convex, the posterior lateral angles sometimes distinctly 

 produced ; mesonotum (including cruciform elevation) scarcely 

 longer than pronotum ; abdomen longer than space between apex 

 of head and base of cruciform elevation, the tympana completely 

 exposed, tympanal coverings absent ; opercula in male small and 

 transverse ; anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; face more 

 or less longitudinally sulcate : tegmina more or less opaque, apical 

 areas usually eight, sometimes nine or ten in number; wings 

 semi-opaque or semi-hyaline ; apical areas six. 



1G62. Huechys sanguinea, De Geer (Cicada), Mem. iii, p. 221, 

 t. xxxiii, f. 17 (1773) ; Ann/, c^- Serv. (Huecb3's) J£em. p. 465 

 (1843) I Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. Ill, t. iii/f. 2, a, b (1892). 



Tettigonia saHguiuolenta, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 681. 15 (1775) ; 

 Oliv. (Cicada) Enc. Meih. v, p. 756 (1790). 



Var. a. philfBmata, Fabr. (Tettiijonia) Syst. Rhyny, p. 42. 47 

 (1803) ; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 112, t. iii, f. 2, a, b (1892). 



Stoll, Ciq. fig. 62. 



Var. b. 'Bist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 112 (1892). 



Var. c. testacea, Fabr. (Tettigonia) Mant. Ins. ii, p. 267. 23 

 (1787); Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 112 (1892). 



Stoll, Ciy. f . 41 c. 



Body and legs black ; front and face to head, two large spots to 

 mesonotum (sometimes fused and covering the whole disk) and 



Fig. 09. — Huechys sanguinea. 



the abdomen sanguineous, base of abdomen narrowly black ; 

 tegmina black, opaque ; wings shining fuscous, sometimes almost 

 black, interior of anal area always paler; rostrum passing the 

 intermediate coxse. 



