148 



UNDESGRIBED GIGADID^E 



by H'.-L. Distant. 



Since I completed my synonymie catalogue of the gênera and 

 species belonging to this Family, several new species and gênera 

 hâve reached my hands. Some of thèse are hère described. 

 Goloured figures ol' ail the species at présent known to inhabit the 

 Transvaal will be given in my next part of « Insecta Transvaa- 

 liensia » now in the press, and I hope subsequenty to figure ail the 

 described gênera of Cicadidre in another work. 



Subfamily GIGADlNiE. 

 Division Gicadaria. 



Cryptotympana suluensis sp. n. — ^T. Head, pronotum and 

 mesonotum brownish-ochraceous; head with the latéral areas of 

 front and a transverse fascia to vertex which does not quite reach 

 eyes but encloses the ocelli, black; pronotum with two central linear 

 fasciaîdiverging anteriorly, and the centre of the anterior and inner 

 posterior margins black; mesonotum with four anterior obconical 

 spots of which the two outermost are small and a spot on each side 

 of the cruciform élévation, black; abdomen above piceous, the 

 tympanal coverings and latéral areas brownish-ochraceous; body 

 beneath and legs dark ochraceous; posterior two Ihirds of central 

 sulcation to face, the anterior tibise and bases of intermediate 

 tibiae, black; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation stramineous; 

 tegmina with the costal membrane and basai cell ochraceous, the 

 postcostal area piceous, the transverse veins at bases of second and 

 third apical areas infuscated; extrême bases of both tegiftina and 

 wings ochraceous, the first somewhat basally streaked with piceous; 

 opercula just passing basai abdominal segment, a little overlapping 

 internally for about basai third, thence oblique to apices which 

 are very broadly subangulate, latéral margins nearly straight. 



$. Tegmina and wings somewhat broadly basally sulTured with 

 ochraceous, body above more piceous, the markings to head and 

 thorax more obscure, the posterior margin of pronotum promi- 

 nently ochraceous. 



Long. excl. tegm. çj^-Ç 38 mill. Exp. tegm, 115 mill. 



Hab. : Sulu Archipelago (Paris Mus.), Gelebes (Stockh. Mus.). 



This species is allied to C. intermedia Sign. and C. sinensis Dist. 

 From the first it differs by the less oblique and more apically 

 rounded opercula, the stramineous, not piceous basai suffusion to 

 tegmina and wings and the infuscated transverse veins to the 



