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is more or less under conlrol in Hong-Kong and Kow-Loon and 

 rond a (e\v Monasleries in varions parts of Kwang-tung Province, 

 but is unctiecked in Macao and Chinese territor\ . The country is 

 overpopulated, and swarms witli people (or ever on the verge of 

 starvation, by failure of a single rice crop. 



Hong-Kong is some seventy miles within Ihe Une of the Tropic of 

 (lancer, which almost equally divides Formosa. Macao is about 

 40 miles west and a little south of Hong-Kong. As there is a cons- 

 tant stream of traffîc flowing from near and distant countries to 

 Hong-Kong, exolic insects are often turning up there, especially 

 Lepidoptera (partly no doubt thèse are specially noticed because 

 more attention is paid to this Order), but there is little doubt that 

 Hemiptera are occasionally imported, and the island being well 

 wooded (alîorested since it was ceded about 1840; the phytophagous 

 Hemiptera might probably fmd some plant on which they could 

 exist, whilst any carnivorous bugs would no doul)t make Ihemselves 

 at home there. Macao bas had praclically no traffic for Ihe last forty 

 years, is of much less area than Hong-Kong island and is very 

 poorly wooded, as is the conntry around. The island of Hong-Kong 

 is about thirty miles in area and is separated from Kow-loon and 

 the mainland ofChinabya channel but half a mile wide at the 

 nearest part. Macao is situated on a tiny peninsula of Heung-shan 

 district, a part of the mainland, but so much eut up by narrow tidal 

 creeks, that much of it is really made up of what are practically 

 islands. 



As regards collecting in tliis part of the country, it is usually 

 rendered irksome by the stupid curiosity and filthy habits of the 

 natives, especially as almost the only wooded localities are close 

 around the thickly strewn villages and towns. The outskirts of every 

 village are used as a common voiding ground for the inhabitants 

 thereof, and in such excrementitious surroundings, it behoves one 

 to walk warily ». 



This, the fîrst part of the list, deals with the Gicadida? anJ Cer- 

 copidse of the Homoptera. 



FAMILY CICADID.F (30 species) 



1. Cicadetta pellosonia (Uhlee{). — Hong-Kong. 



!2. (JaintUia mogannia (Distant). — Hong-Kong. 



3. (Juintilia SoulU (Distant). — Yunnan. 



4. Abrotna Uowringi (Distant). — Hong-Kong. 



5. Sciei'opiera splendidula {Fx^mcwà). — China. 



