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Cicadetta Kolenati. 



This is a larj^e genus of about one hundred descril)ed s])ecies. 

 about three-fifths l-)elonging to the Austrahisian Region. The 

 following species is the first recorded from the iMJi Isles, and is 

 the seventh Fijian Cicadid. 



I. fyiiipanistria sp. nov. 



PI. 1, figs. 1-3. 



Male. Ochreous ; ocelli narrowly and incom]:)letel\- margined 

 with black. Eyes dark purplish brown. Pronotum with a median 

 stripe and the hind margin yellow ; six wedge-sha])ed bl?.ck spots, 

 tl-e lateral ones rather irregular. IMesonotum a little embrowned, 

 with 3 irregular black sufifusions, the middle one somewhat dumb- 

 bell shaped, with an incomplete yellowish-brown line down its 

 middle : tufted posteriorly with golden yellow hair. Cruciform 

 elevation yellow, the ends of the arms more or less fuscous. 

 Metanotum yellow. Tegmina and wings milky hyaline, vena- 

 tion dark fuscous except the costal, subcostal, and sutural veins 

 of the former which are yellowish green. The base and sides 

 of the first tergite black, rest o.f this, the 2nd and 3rd (the latter 

 narrowly dark apically) and l^asal half of 4th, yellow, the rest 

 more or less fuscous. The whol# of the underside luteous ex- 

 cept as follows: antennal whip more or less fuscous; labium, 

 tibiae and tarsi greyish-yellow ; spines on fere femora black- 

 tipped : sides of first sternite widely fuscous ; apical three-fourths 

 of abdomen purplish fuscous. Vertex rather flat, scarcely pro- 

 minent before the eyes, about as wide between the eyes as the 

 width of an eve. Frons rather narrow, scarcely as wide at base 

 as the teiupora together. Labium reaching just beyond middle 

 coxae. Pronotum widening sublaminately posteriorly, not tooth- 

 ed laterally. Fore femora with three spines, the ist the longest. 

 Opercida oblique, narrow, at least twice as long as wide, sub- 

 constricted medianly externally, not reaching to the apical mar- 

 gin of the first sternite. Metasternum produced medianly in a 

 small sub vertical plate. ^Nledioradial stalk elongate, complete- 

 ly fused, about as long as its first inferior branch ; first apical 

 cell a little longer than the second. Pygo])hcM- elongate, trans- 

 versclv striate. 



