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cicadid.t:. 



Genus PANKA. 

 Paiika, Dl6f. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi, p. 34 (lOOo). 



Type, P. shmdata, Dist. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



Head (including eyes) about as wide or a little wider than base 

 of ujesonotum, its length not equal to breadth between the inner 

 maro-ius of eyes ; pronotum longer than head, its lateral margins 

 nearly straight, its posterior lateral angles subdentately produced ; 

 abdomen in female a little longer than space between apex of 

 head and base of cruciform elevation ; anterior femora strongly 

 spined beneath ; tegmina and wings hyaline ; tegmiua with eight, 

 wings M-ith five apical areas. 



1670. Panka simulata, Dist. A. 37. .Y. H. (7) xvi, p. 34 (1905). 



Tibicen uubifurca, I)ist. (excl. syn.) Mo)/. Orient, dead. p. 131, 

 t. xiv, f. 24, «, b (1892). 



Closely resembling Ahroma 

 aahifurca, Walk, (ante, p. 166), 

 in fact almost indistinguishable 

 from that species save by the 

 structural character of the vena- 

 tion to the wings, which possess 

 only five apical areas. 



Length excl. tegra., $,11 to 



13; exp. tegm. 31 to 38 niillim. 



Bab. Ceylon; ^latate((rreeii). 



This sinuilation or resemblance between species of different 



genera is in the Cicadidae not confined to the above species. In 



South Africa three species of very distinct genera are inseparable 



except for the structural generic characters. 



Fanka dinidatu. 



Division PAENISAEIA*. 

 Parnisaria, Digt. A. M. K. If. (7) xvi, p. 203 (1905). 



This is a division or large group of genera allied to the 

 Taphuraria, but differing principally by the size and position of 

 the eyes, which do not project, or at least not distinctly so, bej'ond 

 the anterior angles of the pronotum ; the abdomen is usually short, 

 except in a few cases, not longer than the space between the apex 

 of head and base of cruciform elevation. 



Only one genus can at present be included m the fauna of British 

 India. 



* Founded on the Neotropical genus I'arnit>a. 



