On a new Genus and Species of Cicadidie. 43 
V.— Description of a new Genus and Spectes of the 
Homopterous Family Cicadide. By W. fh DISTANT. 
In the Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser..9, vol. i. p..196).I 
brought the ene a recorded species of Cicadidee from 
Indo-China to the total of 75. Mons. R. Vitalis de Salvaza, 
in his last consignment to the British Museum, has included 
the beautiful genus and species here described, and the 
number of known species from this rich district ee now be 
recognized as 76. 
AYUTHIA, gen. nov, 
Head including eyes narrower than base of mesonotum, 
almost the length of pronotum ; front obliquely depressed ; 
ocelli considerably farther removed from eyes than from each 
cther, and their interspace strongly, broadly, longitudinally 
foveate:: ; pronotum distinctly shorter than mesonotum, late- 
rally moderately convexly ampliated where the extreme 
margin is coarsely serrated, the posterior marginal area 
moderately broad and at the lateral angles angularly truncate ; 
abdomen in male longer than space “between apex of head 
and base of cruciform elevation, the dorsal surface moderately 
oblique on each side ; tympanal orifices concealed ; meta- 
sternum elevated ; opercula in male short and broad, €X- 
tending beyond base of metasternum ; ; anterior femora strongly 
spined beneath; rostrum reaching base of metasternum ; 
tegmina and wings semiopaque, tegmina with eight apical 
aleas, 
Allied to Tosena, A. & 8S. 
Ayuthia spectabile, sp, n. 
$. Head and pronotum black, moderately palely pilose ; 
head with the eyes, ocelli, and intra-ocular suffusions, narrow 
anterior and broader posterior margins of pronotum castaneous, 
the latter with three prominent black spots; mesonotum 
castaneous, with two large central obconical spots at anterior 
margin, followed by a longer, but more imperfect spot on each 
Jaterai area, a central fasciate line, the anterior angles of the 
cruciform elevation and two spots in front of same, pale 
castaneous ; body above black ; body beneath castaneous 
with black suffusions ; face castaneous, with the apical area 
black; tegmina with nearly basal half opaque creamy-white, 
