LEMURIANA. 



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Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Regions. 



Head (including eyes) broader than base of mesonotum ; head 

 with the front prominent, not twice as broad as long, about as 

 long or a little shorter than vertex, its margins and those of 

 vertex discontinuous, eyes projecting beyond the anterior angles 

 of pronotum, which is about as long as head, its lateral margins 

 sinuate, its posterior angles moderately ampliate ; mesonotum 

 (including cruciform elevation ) nearly as long as head and pronotuni 

 together ; abdomen about as long as space between apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; 

 opercula in male short, narrow, trans\'erse ; posterior metasternal 

 process distinct, in male produced between the inner angles of the 

 opercula ; anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline ; tegmina with the two upper ulnar areas as long as 

 the remaining ulnar areas, apical areas eight ; wings with six 

 apical areas. 



1675. Lemuriana apicalis, Gei-7n. (Cicada) Tho)i's Arch, ii, 2, p. 44 

 (1830) : Silb. JRev. Ent. ii, p. 63 (1864) ; Stdl (Tibiceuj, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861, p. 618; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 131, 

 t. xii, f. 15, a, b (1892). 

 Cicada semicincta, Ti'alk. List Horn, i, p. 142 (1850). 



Head above black, sometimes with a castaneous spot on front ; 

 pronotum castaneous, with the margins and a central hourglass- 

 shaped fascia black ; mesonotum castaneous, with three obconical 



black spots, the central spot 

 shortest and bifid ; abdo- 

 men black, with a greyish- 

 white tomentose spot on 

 the lateral margins of both 

 the first and second ab- 

 dominal segments, and a 

 similarly coloured basal mar- 

 gin to the sixth and some- 

 times also to the fifth seg- 

 ment ; body beneath black ; 

 the legs pale oehraceous, the femora more or less castaneous above ; 

 lateral areas of the sternum oehraceous and greyishly tomentose ; 

 margins of the opercula and lateral areas of the abdomen pale 

 castaneous. (In some specimens the mesonotum, opercula, and 

 abdomen beneath are wholly black.) Tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 venation mostly fuscous ; tegmina with the costal membrane 

 oehraceous and with an apical fuscous spot. 



Length excl. tegm., cJ , 17 ; exp. tegm. 48 millim. 

 Hab. Mussooree (MacHnnon). Bombay {Ind. 2Ius.) ; Karwar 

 (Coll. Dist.). 



Fis 



Lemuriana apiccdis. 



