QUINTILIA.. 169 



Geiuis ftUINTILIA. 



Tibiceu, subgeu. Quintilia, St&I, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 26 (1866). 

 Quintilia, Karsch, Bed. ent. Zeit. xxxv, p. Ill (1890). 



Type, Q. rujiventris, Walk., a South African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Hegious, also reeorclecl 

 from China. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than base of mesouotum, the 

 front not prominently projecting, about as broad as length of 

 lateral margins to vertex, tlie margins of both more or less con- 

 tinuous, vertex a little longer than front ; pronotum about as long 

 as head, posterior angles broadly aiiipliate ; mesonotum (including 

 cruciform elevation) about as long as head and pronotum together ; 

 abdomen moderately robust ; tym pana completely exposed ; opercula 

 in male very short and transverse ; rostrum passing the inter- 

 mediate coxoe ; tegmina and wings hyaline, sometimes semi-opaque, 

 the first about, or nearly, three times as long as greatest breadth, 

 basal cell usually about twice as long as broad, apical areas eight ; 

 wings with six apical areas. 



1G77. Quintilia SUbvitta, Walk. (Cicada) List Horn, i, p. 222 (18o0) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Benq. liii, p. 230 (1885) : Htal (Tibiceii), 6fv. 

 Vet.-Ah Fork. 1862", p. 48-j ; Dist. Man. Orient. Cicad. p. 129, 

 t. xii, f. 17, a, h (1892). 

 Cicada strigosa, Walk. Ins. Saund., Honi. p. 10 (1858). 



Body above black ; head with a small spot on lateral margins of 

 vertex and a central spot at base, pronotvim with the anterior and 

 posterior margins, a central longitudinal fascia, the incisures 



(sometimes the lateral areas), 

 mesonotum with faint outlines 

 of the margins of two central 

 obconical spots, and the apices 

 of the cruciform elevation ochra- 

 ceous ; margins of abdominal 

 segments and basal area of last 

 abdominal segment eastaneous ; 

 16.— Quintilia subvitta. body beneath \\ith the lateral 



margins of the face, sternal spots, 

 opercula, and disk of abdomen ochraceous ; legs black, considerably 

 spotted and streaked with ochraceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 venation mostly fuscous ; tegmina with tlie outer edge of costal 

 membrane and extreme base ochraceous, basal cell, a short fascia 

 crossing apex of radial area and maculately continued to apex of 

 interior ulnar area, transverse veins at bases of apical areas, and a 

 small apical spot piceous ; wings with extreme base ochraceous, a 

 fascia crossing bases of apical areas, a spot at anal angle, and base 

 of anal area fuscous. 



Length excl. tegm., J , 16 ; exp. tegm. 45 millim. 

 Hah. Mussooree {MacMnnon). N.W. Himalaya {CoU. Dist.). 

 8ikhim {Iml. Mus.). 



