THE ANXALS 



AXD 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 50. FEBRUARY 1912. 



[XVr. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Oriental 

 Homoptera. By W. L. Distant. 



Family Cicadidse, 

 Platyphura atkinsoni, sp. n. 



?. Body above cinnamomcous brown; vertex narrowly 

 at inner margins of eyes, and narrow anterior margins of 

 vertex and front, piceous or black ; ocelli narrowly margined 

 with black ; pronotum w-itli the lateral and posterior margins 

 and the anterior marginal area ochraceous, and with a more 

 or less distinct piceous central fascia ; mesonotum with two 

 obconical spots on anterior margin and a sublateral line on 

 each side black, the basal cruciform elevation ochraceous ; 

 posterior abdominal segmental margins distinctly paler ; 

 body beneath and legs cinnamomeous brown, the sternum and 

 legs distinctly pilose ; head beneath with a transverse black 

 fascia between the eyes crossing anterior margin of face ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous ; teg- 

 minawith the costal membrane and extreme base ochraceous, 

 the whole tegminal area somewhat sparsely speckled with 

 small but distinct black spots, those on the apical marginal 

 area in two series arranged in pairs, the outermost smaller ; 

 face with the margins a little convex, the lateral transverse 

 ridges strongly pronounced, the central longitudinal sulcation 

 broad; head (including eyes) a little wider than base of 

 Ann. (& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol ix. 13 



