THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXIIIJ 



AUGUST, 1900. 



[No. 447. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CICADID^ FEOM 



CHINA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



'^Talainga chinensis, sp. n. 



<? . Body and legs black ; eyes ocbraceous, their posterior margins 

 sanguineous ; pronotum, with the lateral margins and a spot on lateral 

 areas behind the eyes sanguineous. Tegmina black, opaque, with a 

 pale creamy-white spot in almost all of the many cell-like areas, the 

 most prominent spot being subcostal, and situate at the apex of the 

 radial area. Wings black, with a large creamy-white spot extending 

 across and a little below the radial area at about two-thirds from its 

 base ; five small submarginal creamy-white spots situate in the apical 

 areas, and some basal streaks and some of the longitudinal venation 

 margined with the same colour. Long. excl. tegm. <? , 30 millim. 

 Exp. tegm. 83 millim. 



Hab. China : Kualuu, N. W. Fokien (Coll. by Tang-wang- 



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