Mr. W. L. Distant on Oriental RhyncJiota. 285 



and apex pole greyish and callose ; other structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. 7 to 8 mm. 



S. India; Chikkaballapura (T. V. Campbell, Brit. Mus.). 

 Presented by Mr. E. A. Butler. 



HOMOPTE R A. 



Fam. Cicadidae. 

 Pycna indochinen&is, sp. n. 



S . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum ochraceous; head 

 with a small dark spot near base of front, vertex with a 

 central longitudinal line, two small spots on each side of 

 ocelli, and posterior margins of eyes black ; pronotum with 

 three very small black spots at centre of posterior marginal 

 area; mesonotum with four obconical spots (the two centra] 

 smallest) and a large spot in front of cruciform elevation 

 black ; abdomen ochraceous, the segmental margins more or 

 less broadly black ; tympanal flaps pale ochraceous ; body 

 beneath, legs, and rostrum ochraceous; central sulcation to 

 face, apex of rostrum, and large marginal spots to abdomen 

 black; tegmina with the basal half ochraceous, opaque, two 

 elongate spots on costal membrane, three in radial area (the 

 central spot largest), the basal cell and a large elongate spot 

 beneath it black, other more piceous and more obscure spots 

 between the veins, and in the radial area a large hyaline 

 space between the second and third black spots ; outer half 

 of tegmina hyaline, the veins ochraceous, a number of small 

 black spots on the apical marginal area and larger piceous 

 suffusions at the bases of the upper four apical areas ; wings 

 black, the apical and posterior marginal area hyaline ; head 

 (including eyes) about two-thirds the breadth of base of 

 mesonotum ; pronotal lateral margins angularly ampliate ; 

 face very broadly, blackly, centrally sulcate for about half 

 its length, the transverse striatums pitchy brown ; rostrum 

 reaching base of abdomen ; opercula short and broad, in- 

 ternally overlapping, outwardly and posteriorly rounded, not 

 passing base of abdomen. 



Long., excl. tegm., 17 mm. ; exp. tegm. 63 mm. 



Huh. lndo-China ; Lao Kay (A'. Vitalis de Salvaza } Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Allied to P. axlestia, Dist. ; face much more shortly 

 centrally sulcate, pronotal margins more acutely angulate, 

 opercula less centrally overlapping, basal coloration of the 

 tegmina different, &c. 



