belonging to the Homopterous family Cicadide. 647 
colour on each side. Abdomen with the posterior 
segmental margins narrowly and obscurely paler. Body 
beneath concolorous; centre of face, metasternum, disk, 
and apex of abdomen, fuscous. Legs concolorous ; femora 
streaked with fuscous; bases and apices of tibie, and 
apical joints of tarsi, also fuscous. ‘Tegmina and wings 
pale hyaline and tale-like ; tegmina with costal and basal 
half of venation ochraceous, remainder fuscous; trans- 
verse veins at bases of second and third apical areas 
infuscated. Width of head, between outer margins of 
eyes, rather less than that of pronotum at base ; pro- 
notum a little more than twice as broad as long; face 
with the base much elevated, somewhat narrowing to 
apex, distinctly longitudinally sulcated, and strongly 
transversely striate. Rostrum about reaching posterior 
coxe, with the apex pitchy; opercula slender, curved 
inwardly, but not meeting at base or apex. Long. 
18mm. Exp. tegm. 48 mm. 
Hab. Bombay Presidency. 
Carineta oberthiiri, n. 8. 
g. Head, pronotum and mesonotum greenish ; 
abdomen dull reddish. Head with the front margined 
anteriorly with several dark transverse strie, their edges 
raised; vertex somewhat reddish in front of eyes; the 
ocelli very pale luteous; the eyes greenish. Pronotum 
with a central green longitudinal fascia, not reaching 
anterior or posterior margins, widened and truncated 
anteriorly, rounded posteriorly ; a curved fascia on each 
lateral margin, and two rounded spots near centre of 
base, black. Mesonotum with two faint contiguous 
central spots, on each side of which is a large but very 
obscure fascia; basal cruciform elevation and frenum 
reddish. Body beneath with the sternum greenish, and 
the abdomen reddish ; cox and femora greenish ; tibie 
and tarsi reddish. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; 
tegmina with the venation and costal membrane and area 
greenish ; the anterior edge of costal membrane and 
claval margin fuscous. The width of the head between 
the eyes is equal to the length of the head and pro- 
notum taken together, but much narrower than pronotum 
at base, where it is more than twice broader than long. 
The face is very convex, and much produced at base, 
with a wide, central longitudinal sulcation, and strong 
