Mr. W. L. Distant on neio CicadicUe. 291 



XXXVI. — Descriptions of neio Species of Oriental Homoptera 

 belonging to the Family Cicadid^. Bj W. L. Distant. 



As I am now engaged in identifying such species belonging 

 to other collections as are kindly submitted to me for the 

 furtherance of my intended Monograph, it becomes necessary 

 to publish these descriptions in order to prevent the unsatis- 

 factory course of distributing MS. names only. The species 

 will be all subsequently figured. 



Huecliys suffusa^ n. sp. 



Head and thorax above black ; front of the head and two 

 large spots on mesonotum red; abdomen red; eyes brownish 

 ochraceous. Head and thorax beneath black, the face and 

 abdomen beneath red. Tegmina pale opaque blackish, the 

 apical area broadly dull opaque greyish, with the margins of the 

 lower apical area blackish ; wings pale dull greyish hyaline, 

 the venation darker. 



Rostrum somewhat mutilated, but apparently reaching the 

 intermediate coxjb ; face large and moderately compressed. 



Long. excl. tegm. 21 millira., exp. tegm. 52 millim. 



Hah. Java. Coll. Dist. 



Gceana delinenda^ n. sp. 



Huechys octonotata, "Walk, (nee Westw.), List Horn. i. p. 253. n. 10 

 (1850). 



Body above brownish ochraceous. Head with the apex of 

 front and a transverse fascia in front of eyes, including area 

 of ocelli, black. Pronotum with a central hourglass-shaped 

 fascia and two large oblique spots on each side black. Meso- 

 notum with a central fascia (somewhat similar to that on 

 pronotum) and a large spot on each lateral margin black ; 

 basal cruciform elevation blackish, its anterior angles ochra- 

 ceous. Abdomen with the posterior segmental margins 

 blackish. Body beneath and legs brownish ochraceous, disk 

 of face and a spot before eyes blackish. Tegmina pale 

 brownish ochraceous ; wings brown, with about basal third 

 red. 



Long. excl. tegm. 19 millim., exp. tegm. 47 millim. 



Hah. Cochin (coll. Dist.), Silhet (Brit. Mus.). 



By a strange oversight Walker placed this species in the 

 British-Museum collection under the name of Huechys octo- 

 notata, Westw., and actually redescribed that species under 

 the name oi H. picta (Ins. Saund. Horn. p. 28). 



