SCIEEOPTEEA. 



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Head (including eyes) a little broadei' than base of mesonotum, 

 front subconically, flatly produced, shorter than vertex, the lateral 

 margins of both discontinuous ; pronotiim longer than head, its 

 lateral margins slightly convexly oblique, the posterior lateral 

 angles distinctly produced ; mesonotum (including cruciform 

 elevation) not longer than pronotum ; abdomen longer than space 

 between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana 

 entirely exposed, tympanal coverings altogether absent ; opercula 

 in male small and transverse ; anterior femora strongly spined 

 beneath ; face not longitudinally sulcate ; tegmina more or less 

 opaque, apical areas eight, basal cell longer than broad ; wings 

 hyaline, apical areas six. 



1665. Scieroptera splendidula, Fabv. (Tettigouia) Syst. Ent. p. 681 



(1775) ; OHv. (Cicada) Enc. Meth. v, p. 750 (1790) ; Stal 



(Scieroptera), Beii. ent. Zeit. x, p. 169 (186fc)) ; Dist. Mun. Orient. 



Cicad. p. 117, t. xiv, f. 5, a,b (1892), 



Var. a. cuprea, Walk. (Hueohysj J. Linn. Soc, Zool. x, p. 95 



(1868). 

 Var. h. trabeata, Germ. (Cicada) Thon's Arch, ii, 2, p. 39 (1830). 

 Var. c. Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 117 (1892). 

 Var. d. Dist. torn. cit. p. 118. 



Black ; margins and a central fascia to pronotum and meso- 

 notum ochraceous ; cruciform 

 elevation ochraceous, its cen- 

 tral area black ; lateral margins 

 of sternum ochraceous ; abdo- 

 men and femora (excluding 

 apices) reddish - ochraceous ; 

 abdomen frequently with a 

 central, dorsal, longitudinal, 

 black macular fascia ; tegmina 

 piceous or very dark fuscous ; 

 wings hyaline, very slightly tinged with ochraceous. 



Var. a. cuprea, Walk. Costal membrane of tegmina ochraceous. 

 Var. h. trabeata, Germ. Tegmina paler than in var. a ; ground- 

 colour of pronotum purplish in place of black; front of head 

 marked with purplish. 



Var. c. Tegmina as in var. a, but legs and face uniformly 

 ochraceous. 



Var. d. As in var. c, but the tibiae and tarsi blackish ; head with 

 the margins of front and the lateral areas of vertex ochraceous. 

 Length excl. tegm. 12 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 32 to 53 milUm. 

 ffab. Sikhim. Assam ; Margherita (Doherty) ; Khjisi Hills 

 (Coll. Dist.). Burma ; Momeit {Doherty). Tenasserim {Coll. 

 Disi.).— Java. Borneo. Celebes. China. 



A very variable species ; but the variation does not constitute 

 local races ; the only limitation, according to present knowledge, 

 beino- the restriction of the form trabeata to Java, but this is 

 probably not constant. 



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Scieroptera sijlcndidulo 



