172 cicadid.t:, 



my efforts failed, and the diflerence.s became evanescent w hen a 

 long series of species was examined. 



Head about as long as pronotum, the front broad, its margins 

 discontinuous with the lateral margins of the vertex, which is 

 longer than front and is centrally longitudinally sulcate, ocelli 

 rather nearer to eyes than to each other, eyes scarcely projecting 

 beyond the anterior augles of the pronotum ; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins almost straight, the posterior angles moderately 

 ampliate ; mesonotum (including cruciform elevation) almost as 

 long as head and pronotum together ; abdomen a little longer 

 than space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; 

 tympana entirely exposed ; opercula in male short, not passing 

 base of abdomen ; tegmina and wings hyaline ; tegmina with the 

 upper vein of lower ulnar area emitted at some distance from 

 base of radial area, apical areas eight, postcostal area moderately 

 broad ; wings with six apical areas. 



1079. Melampsalta imisiva, (Ter)n. (Cicada) Tlion's Arch, ii, 2, p. 43 

 (IS-)O); .Stal (-Melampsalta), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861, p. 019 

 Karsch, Ikrl. ent. Zeit. xxxv, p. 123 (1890). 



Melampsalta musiva, var. caspica, Koloiat. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 XXX, p. 42o (1857). 



Cicada taniarisca, JValk. Zoohxjist, xxviii, jj. 2403 (1870). 



Head and mesonotum ochraceous, pronotum tinged with testa- 

 ceous ; head much shaded with black, especially on vertex, margins 

 of front, and in two transverse spots on lateral margins of vertex ; 

 pronotum with the margins and a central longitudinal fascia 

 ochraceous, the margins of the latter (ampliated anteriorly and 

 posteriorly) and the inner margins black ; mesonotum with four 

 obcouical spots (the two central ones short, more or less fused, 

 outwardly incomplete, and connected with a subtriangular spot in 

 front of cruciform elevation) black ; centre of cruciform elevation 

 black ; abdomen brownish-ochraceous, greenishly pilose, posterior 

 segmental margins ochraceous and with a central series of piceoiis 

 or black spots ; body beneath and legs paler than above ; two 

 central fascia? to face, space between face and eyes, rostrum 

 (excluding base), and shadings to under surface of anterior femora 

 piceous or black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first with the 

 venation more or less fuscous, the costal membraue pale ochraceous 

 outwardly margined with fuscous ; wings with the A'enation 

 ochraceous. 



Length excL tegm.. J & $ , 20 to 23; exp. tegm. 50 to 57 

 milliui. 



Bab. Quetta (Ind. Mas.). — South-eastern Pala^arctic Region. 



1680. Melampsalta continuata, Dist. (Cicadetta) A. M. N. H. (6) i, 



p. 37-J (1888); id. (Melampsalta.) Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 143, 

 t. XV, f. 9, fl, b (1892). 



5 . Head and thorax above dull black, sparingly greyishly 



