158 CICADIDiE. 



Yav. a. p7iila'mata,~Fahr. Differs from the typical form of the 

 species in having the tegmina fuscous, not black, and by the wings 

 being paler fuscous and more hyaline. 



Var. b. Tegmina black, with greyish-white streaks in the apical 

 areas and sometimes in uhiar areas ; wings blackish \Aith greyish- 

 white streaks. 



Var. c. testacea, Fabr. Mesonotum nnspotted, uniformly black ; 

 tegmina more or less streaked with greyish-white. 



Length excl. tegm., c5' & $,17 to 25; exp. tegm. 43 to 

 65 millim. 



Hah. Sikliim {Ind. Mus.). Assam; Brahmaputra (CJiennell). 

 Calcutta (fStockh. tf- Ind. Muss.). Burma ; Rangoon : Kakhien 

 Hills (Fea). Tennasserim ; Thagata (Feci) ; Myitta {Doherty). — 

 Malay Peninsula. Sumatra. Borneo. Timor Laut. China. 



" In the Malay Peninsula this species is diurnal and flies about 

 a,mong bushes in the open at midday*' (Aunandale, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1900, p. 862). 



1663. Huechys thoracica, Dlst. J. A. S. Bene;, xlviii, p. 39, t. ii, 



f. 8 (LS79): id. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 116, t. iii, f. 3,a,b 

 (1892). 



Black ; front and face to head, a central hourglass-shaped 

 fascia to pronotum, a central and two lateral spots to mesonotum, 

 abdomen, and sternum sanguineous ; margins of front, a broad 

 central fascia to face, and some sternal spots black ; tegmina pale 

 fuscous and semi-opaque ; wings semi-hyaline, slightly tinged with 

 fuscous ; the venation dark fuscous ; rostrum just passing the 

 intermediate coxae. 



Length excl. tegm., § , 17 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 39 to 50 millim. 



Hab. Burma; Karen Hills and Ruby Mines (Doherty). Tennas- 

 serim (Limborg) ; Myitta (Doherty). 



1664. Huechys hsematica, Dist. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvi, p. 454, 



t. iv, f. 6, a, b (1888) ; id. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 116, t. xiv, 

 f. 4, a, b (1892). 



Body above and beneath sanguineous ; pronotum with a large 

 oblique black spot on each lateral area ; eyes dull ochraceous ; 

 legs castaueous ; tegmina pale greyish-brown, with darker suffusions 

 along the veins, base narrowly sanguineous ; wings pale bluish- 

 grey, with darker suffusions along the veius, bases narrowly 

 sanguineous ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxa?. 



Length excl. tegm,, $ , 20 ; exp. tegm. 45 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim ; Mt. Mooleyit (Fea). 



Genus SCIEROPTERA. 



Scieroptera, Stal., Hem. Afr. iv, p. 4 (1866) ; id. Berl. ent. Zeit. x, 

 p. It59 (1866) ; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 117 (1892). 



Type, S. sjplendidula.^ Pabr. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



