226 Mr. W. L. Distant on new Cicadidse. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIV. 



Fig. 1. Lower view of the anterior portion of the body of P, verrucosus. 



Fig, 2. Anterior view of a single segment of P. verrucosus. 



Fig. 3. Lower view of the posterior portion of the body of P. verrucosus. 



Fig. 4. Upper view of anterior segments. 



Fig. 5. Upper view of middle segments. 



Fig. 6. Upper view of posterior segments. 



Fig. 7. Antenna. 



Fig. 8. Leg. 



Fig. 9. First pair of feet. 



Fig. 10. The gnathochilarium. 



Fig. 11. The gnathochilarium oi Platydesmus, after Saussure. 



Fig. 12. The gnathochilarium of Dolistenus, after Berlese. 



XXIII. — Descriptions of new Species o/" Cicadidse. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Being engaged in the preparation of an illustrated monograph 

 of the Oriental Cicadida3, including those of China and Japan, 

 to be published by the authorities of the Calcutta Museum, I 

 am anxious to obtain all the material possible to make the 

 work moderately complete. I therefore venture to make an 

 appeal to entomologists who may possess specimens from 

 those regions to favour me with an opportunity of examining 

 the same. 



The following species will be all subsequently either fully 

 or structurally figured. 



Poecilopsaltria Ilampsoni) n. sp. 



$ . Head luteous ; front with a number of black linear 

 markings; vertex with a transverse, narrow, black fascia 

 between the eyes and with a central black spot containing the 

 ocelli. Pronotum greenish ochraceous, the disk with the 

 following black markings : — a central I-shaped spot, on each 

 side of which are some oblique linear markings ; the lateral 

 dilated margins are black and the anterior margin is narrowly 

 and the posterior margin broadly dull reddish ochraceous. 

 Mesonotum greenish ochraceous, with the following black 

 spots : — four obconical from anterior margin, of which the 

 central two are smallest; a large, oblong, discal spot, with a 

 small, partly rounded spot on each side of it ; the basal cruci- 

 form elevation dull reddish ochraceous. Abdomen above 

 black. Body beneath with the face black, marked with 

 luteous transverse lines ; sternum somewhat ochraceously 



