Oil a.new Genus and Sjiecies c»/'Cica(licI:o. i'.\ 



V. — Pt\<<'rij>ti'nn of a neir (ipiiiif niff Sftnuex of the. 

 I/omo^iliious Fainili/ Cicadidiv. By \V. L. DISTANT. 



In the Aim. & Ihv-. Naf. Hist. (scr. 0, vol. i. p. I'.x;) I 

 ln(»ii;;Iit the miii)l)er of reconlcd .s|)ecie.s of (.joadidie Irom 

 Tiido-Cliiiia t(» tlu' total of 7'). Mon.s. I{. Vitali.s de Salvaza, 

 ill lii.s last consigimient to the Britisli Museum, lias incliideil 

 tlio heaulifiil j2:ei>u.s and species licro descriljcd, and tlie 

 iiiimlxT ot known specios tVoin this rich distiict must lUiW he 

 looo^ni/A'd a.s 70. 



Ayutiiia, gen. nov. 



Head includiiif; eyes narrower tluiu hase of mesonofum, 

 almost the length of pronotuin ; front obliquely depressed ; 

 ocelliconsideiahly lartlier removed from eyes tiian from each 

 ( tlier, and their interspace stroiif^ly, broadly, longitudinally 

 foveate ; pruiiotuin distinctly shorter th.vn inesonotuni, 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 tlian space betAVeen apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation, the dorsal surlace moderati ly 

 oblicjuc on each side : tympanal orifices concealed ; nieta- 

 sternum elevated ; opercula in male short and broad, ex- 

 temling beyond base of metasternum ; anterior femora strongly 

 s|)ined beneath ; rostrum reaching base of metaf^ternum ; 

 trgminu and wings seiiiiopacjue, tegmina with eight apical 

 aiejs. 



Allied to Tosena, A. & S. 



Ayulhia sj^eclabile^ ap. n. 



(J. Head and pronotum black, moderatelyjialelypilo.se; 

 head with the eyes, ocelli, and intra-ocular suftusions, narrow 

 anterior and broader posterior margins of pronotum castanenu-', 

 the latter with three ])rominent black spots ; me?onoium 

 eastaiieous, with two large central obconical s|)Ots at anterior 

 margin, followed by a longer, but more imperfect spot on each 

 lateial area, a central fasciate line, the anterior angles of the 

 cruciform elevation and two spots in front of same, pale 

 ca.slaneous ; body above black ; body beneath castaneous 

 witji black suffusions ; face castaneous, with the apical area 

 bl.itk ; tegmina with nearly basal half opa(|Uo creamy-white. 



