undescribed Species of Cicadidre. 487 



margins nearly straight, apices narrowed and obtusely 

 rounded, inner margins oblique. 



Long., excl. tegm., 38 mm. ; exp. tegm. 106 mm. 



Bab. Ceylon; Oduchuddan {Green). 



Abricta noctua, sp. n. 



Body above black, palely pilose ; ocelli red ; a large spot 

 occupying'* each lateral area of the pronotum dull dark 

 ochraceous ; the margins of two central anterior spots and 

 the whole of two elongate spots — one of which occupies each 

 lateral marginal area — to the mesonotum castaneous; abdo- 

 men somewhat longly palely pilose ; face black, the trans- 

 verse ridges more or less castaneous ; sternum thickly palely 

 pilose ; legs ochraceous, more or less streaked with black ; 

 abdomen black, strongly palely pilose on each lateral area, 

 an ochraceous spot on eacli side of apical segment; tegmina 

 and wings hyaline ; tegmina with the venation mostly black, 

 the costal membrane ochraceous, the upper apical cell and 

 the bases of the second, third, and fourth apical cells piceous 

 or black ; wings with the venation ochraceous, the margins 

 of the abdominal area brownish ochraceous ; head (including 

 eyes) about as broad as base of mesonotum, head with front 

 subprominent, in breadth about equal to length of lateral 

 margins of vertex, vertex longer than front ; face convexly 

 prominent, central longitudinal sulcation narrow, transveise 

 striatums distinct ; rostrum about reaching posterior coxa} ; 

 opercula transverse, apically rounded, not meeting internally 

 nor passing base of abdomen ; tegmina with transverse vein 

 at base of second apical area oblique. 



Long., excl. tegm., <J 22 mm. ; exp. tegm. 58 mm. 



J lab. N.W. Australia, Cue (B. W. Brown, type in Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Parnhalla magna, sp. n. 



Head black, palely pilose; pronotum and mesonotum dark 

 castaneous, palely pilose ; a central longitudinal line and 

 extreme posterior margin to pronotum narrowly pale dull 

 ochraceous, subposterior margin black ; mesonotum with two 

 Bmall, somewhat obscure, dark obconical spots at anterior 

 margin ; abdomen dark castaneous, palely pilose, posterior 

 segmental margins dull ochraceous ; sternum thickly, longly, 

 palely pilose ; an ochraceous line between face and eyes; 

 legs dull ochraceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline; tegmina 

 with the veins mostly piceous, costal membrane an 1 post- 

 costal area piceous, inwardly ochraceous, a black fascia 

 crossing bases of first, second, third, and fourth apical areas; 

 wings with the veins paler than those of tegmina; vertex 

 with two distinct longitudinal ridges between the ocelli, head 



