Mr. W. L. Distant on new Cicadidee. 227 



pilose ; abdomen beneath black, the segmental margins ochra- 

 ceous, the anal appendage of the same colour ; legs castaneous, 

 streaked or spotted with piceous and luteous. Rostrum 

 black, the basal portion luteous. Tegmina pale hyaline, 

 with the venation brown, the costal membrane greenish, the 

 basal third somewhat opaque, with darker transverse markings 

 and small basal black markings ; a double irregular series of 

 dark brown spots cross the tegmina at about centre, a dark 

 brown fascia at bases of upper apical areas, a few small sub- 

 apical spots, and some small marginal spots of the same 

 colour. Wings "brownish ochraceous, paler at apex than at 

 base and very pale across centre, with a white marginal spot 

 near anal angle ; the venation brown. 



The rostrum reaches the basal abdominal segment ; the 

 lateral margins of the pronotum are distinctly angulated ; the 

 face is robustly gibbous, with a profound central longitudinal 

 sulcation; the posterior tibias have three distinct spines on 

 each side of apical half. 



$ . Long. excl. tegm. 23 millim. ; exp. tegm. 70 millim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills, northern slopes, 5000 feet (May). 



I am indebted for a knowledge of this fine species to Gr. F. 

 Hampson, Esq., who captured it in the month of May of this 

 year. 



Poecilopsaltria semusta, n. sp. 



^ . Body dull ochraceous ; head with the front and a 

 broad fascia between the eyes black, the last containing the 

 ocelli and two small ochraceous spots ; pronotum with two 

 central, discal, somewhat triangular, black spots, the lower- 

 most largest and broadest, on each side of which are three 

 narrow, oblique, black fascias, the lateral ampliated margins 

 somewhat darker outwardly. Mesonotum with a large, 

 black, central spot on anterior margin connected with the 

 black margin of the basal cruciform elevation ; on each side 

 of this central spot is a large, black, obconical spot, which 

 nearly crosses the disk ; abdomen above dull castaneous, the 

 segmental margins ochraceous. Head beneath with a broad 

 black fascia between the eyes ; face ochraceous, the upper 

 portion black, enclosing an ochraceous spot, the central sulca- 

 tion and transverse striations bright castaneous ; body beneath 

 ochraceous, with darker shadings ; legs more or less tinged 

 with castaneous ; abdomen beneath as above ; opercula 

 brownish ochraceous, with the margins paler ; rostrum ochra- 

 ceous, with the apex pitchy. Tegmina brownish, with the 

 following creamy markings : — a short, macular, transverse 

 fascia near base ; a broad, irregular, transverse, macular 



