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XXIII. Additions to a hiowlcdgc of the Family Cicadidge. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



[Read June 1st, 1904.] 



Plates XXIX and XXX. 



The following descriptions refer to species of Cicadidm 

 which have reached me from various sources during the 

 last few years. Foremost among these, I may mention a 

 small collection made and forwarded to me by Mr. P. W. 

 Mackinnon, at Mussooree, N.W.P., India, which contained 

 no fewer than five new species, a revelation after the mass 

 of material which passed through my hands a decade ago, 

 when preparing my " Monograph of the Oriental Cicadidie." 

 An undescribed Cicada from Bombay has also been sent 

 by Mr. R. M. Dixon. I am indebted to Col. Bingham for 

 two new species collected by Mr. Craddock at Pahang, in 

 the Malay Peninsula, while my friend Dr. Heath has again 

 enriched my collection with a number of new species 

 principally from the Ethiopian region. 



Subfamily CICADINjE. 

 Platypleura macldnnoni, sp. n. (PI. XXIX, fig. 1, a, h.) 



Head and pronotuin ocliraceous ; head with the lateral margins of 

 front, face — exchiding basal spot, anterior lateral margins of vertex, 

 and a broad transverse fascia between eyes including the area of the 

 ocelli, black ; pronotum with the basal margin stramineous, its disc 

 with a central longitudinal fascia much broadened at base, and the 

 incisures, black ; mesonotum pale castaneous, with two anterior, 

 fused, obconical spots, on each side of which is a longer obconical 

 spot, and a large curved basal spot with its apex prolonged, black ; 

 basal cruciform elevation pale castaneous with its central area black ; 

 abdomen black, apex and margins of the tympana ochraceous ; legs, 

 rostrum, posterior margins of abdominal segments and apical segment 

 (more or less) ochraceous. 



Tegmina pale talc-like, the venation ochraceous on basal half, 

 piceous on apical area, extreme basal area piceous ; wings pale 

 hyaline, the venation ochraceous, about basal third piceous streaked 

 with ochraceous. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1904. — PART III. (SEPT.) 



