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CICADIDtE. 



Genns PAUROPSALTA. 



Pauropsalta, God. S^- Fro(/(j. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1904, 

 p. Hlo. 



Type, P. muerne, "Walk., an Australian species. 



Distribution. Probably widely distributed in the Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere, and, according to present knowledge, most largely repre- 

 sented in the Australasian Kegion. 



This genus is closely allied to Melampsalta, from which it has 

 A'^ery properly been separated by Godiug and Froggatt by the 

 venation of the wings, which possess only five, instead of six, 

 apical areas. 



1682. Pauropsalta exequata, Dia. (Melampsalta) Mon. Orient. Cicad. 

 p. 144, t. XV, f. 11, «, 6(1892). 



2 . Body above dull ochraceous and finely pilose ; head (ex- 

 cluding lateral margins of vertex and a spot at base) pieeous ; 

 pronotum with a small central dark spot at base, and with a 



central incised line which does 

 not reach the anterior margin ; 

 mesonotum with a large obconical 

 black spot on each lateral area 

 and two very small spots in front 

 of cruciform elevation ; abdo- 

 men with the base narrowly 

 fuscous, and with two more or 

 less distinct discal longitudinal 

 macular fuscous fascia? ; body 

 beneath and legs dull ochraceous, with a broad fuscous fascia 

 extending from face to apex ot" abdomen ; face fuscous, with the 

 lateral margins ochraceous ; apices of the femora, tibia?, and tarsi 

 fuscous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation fuscous or 

 ochraceovis. 



Length excl. tegm., $ , 14 ; exp. tegm. 37 millim. 

 Hah. Assam ; Naga Hills {Doherttj). 



Fig. 80. — Pauropsalta exequata. 



