PART I. 

 By the Late G. W. Kirkaldy. 



FAMILY CICADIDAE. 



(The following are not arranged phylogenetically.) 



Cicada poiitianaka Distant. 



Hab. Borneo, Pontianak Muir. Previously recorded also from 

 the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Sulu. The two males 

 before me agree generally with Distant's figures and descriptions, 

 except that either they differ a little as regards the pygophor, or 

 else his figures are bad. 



Plat y pleura cancscciis (Walker). 



Hab. Larat (Aluir). Previously also from Sumatra, Banda, 

 Timor Laut, and Aru. 



P. iiobilis (Germar). 



Hab. Borneo, Telok Ayer (Muir). Previously from India, 

 Assam, Java, and Sumatra. 



P. lyriccn sp, nov. 



Male and female closely allied to ciliaris (Linneus). Pale 

 greenish-ochraceous ; vertex with a large median piceous suffu- 

 sion which is continued to the margins by broad lines as follows : 

 two lateral on each side (the second actually on the fastigia), 

 and five basal, so that the vertex seems to be piceous with about 

 six marginal pale areas ; frons more or less piceous basally, some 

 markings on legs, the tarsi, apex of labium, etc., blackish. Pro- 

 notum with a blackish line down the middle reaching to the ante- 

 rior margin of the hind reflected part, and two or three short 

 oblique lines on each side of this. Mesonotal markings much as 

 in ciliaris, anterior half or so of the urotergites dark piceous, the 

 last two or three segments mostly so. LIrotergites more or less 

 clouded with fuscous. Tegmina whitish tinged with fawn, with 

 pale golden-yellow pubescence ; veins pale yellow, green and red ; 

 clavus and base of corium dark, a fuscous oblique band from the 

 exterior margin to the apex of the clavus, on basal third ; the 

 middle third and a little apical of that has a number of dark 



