DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CICADA FROM CENTRAL CHINA. 



aphids, and illustrate them with well-coloured plates. Eight \ 

 these aphids are also European. 



Aurivilius (11) and Wahlgren (13 & 14) have treated of certain 

 Swedish insect groups ; their papers should be of considerable 

 interest to British workers. 



The titles of the other papers enumerated are self-explanatory 

 (6, 8, 9, 10, 12). 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CICADA FROM CENTRAL 



CHINA. 



By W. L. Distant. \c\ o^q^,^ 



OFam. CICADIDiE. 



Subfam. G^anin^. 



d Taona, gen. nov. 



Head, including eyes, about as wide as base of mesonotum and 

 as long as pronotum, the front not obliquely deflected but horizontally 

 produced in front of and a little below the anterior margin of the 

 vertex ; ocelli somewhat close together near middle of vertex ; face 

 prominent, somewhat compressed, strongly transversely ridged ; 

 clypeus strongly compressed and reaching the anterior coxae ; pro- 

 notum about as long as mesonotum, its lateral margins nearly 

 straight ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxee ; anterior femora 

 strongly spined beneath ; tegmina and wings opaque, tegmina with 

 their greatest breadth more than one-third their length, apical areas 

 eight, the apical margin oblique, the apex subangulate. 



Intermediate between '^G^a?ia a.nd'^alinta, allied to the first 

 by the broader tegmina, but differing by the shorter head, which 

 allies it to ^'Balinta, from which, however, it is separated by the 

 short and broad tegmina, and the non-deflected head in front of 

 eyes ; the compressed face somewhat straightly continued to 

 clypeus is also distinctive. I have not seen a male specimen, so 

 cannot describe the opercula. 



^Taona versicolor, sp. n. 



? . Head, pronotum, mesonotum, head beneath, sternum, legs 

 and tegmina virescent ; eyes, apices of tibias, tarsi and costal mem-* 

 brane of tegmina more or less pale testaceous-brown, the veins on 

 basal area of tegmina fuscous-brown ; abdomen bright reddish- 

 ochraceous ; wings cretaceous-white, opaque, the venation dull 

 ochraceous ; body above and beneath more or less palely pilose ; 

 posterior femora with two long strong spines beneath and a shorter 

 and more obtuse spine just in front of the anterior spine ; structural 

 characters as in generic diagnosis. 



? . Long., excl. tegm., 27 millim. Exp. tegm., 75 millim. 



Hah. China ; Prov. Shen-se, Sin-ling (Wilfred A. Maw — 

 Brit. Mus.). 



