﻿90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF CHINESE SPECIES OF THE 

 HOMOPTEROUS FAMILY CICADID^E. 



By W. L. Distant. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. J. H. Leech for a small 

 but very interesting collection of Rhynchota made by his collector 

 in China. This collection proved most opportune material for 

 my Monograph of the Eastern Cicadidse, as although I had 

 examined most of the large Continental collections, and amassed 

 considerable material myself, the Cicadidse of China were, and 

 still remain, a subject of much conjecture. The three species 

 here described add to our scanty knowledge, and will be subse- 

 quently figured in another publication. The remaining portions 

 of the collection I hope to describe shortly in the pages of this 

 Magazine. 



Cicada leecht, n. sp. 



Head black ; the eyes, apex and base of front, and a triangular spot on 

 anterior margin of vertex, greenish ochraceous. Pronotum castaneous ; the 

 anterior, posterior and lateral margins, a narrow central longitudinal fascia, 

 and two small basal spots, ochraceous ; these ochraceous margins and spots 

 more or less edged with black, the posterior margin crossed by three black 

 bands — one central and one near each lateral angle. Mesonotum black, with 

 two broken linear ochraceous obconical basal spots, the lateral margins and 

 the basal cruciform elevation — excluding centre and apices — also ochraceous. 

 Abdomen black, with two slightly oblique white macular fasciae on each lateral 

 area ; outer margins of the tympanal coverings ochraceous. Body beneath, 

 legs and opercula dull ochraceous, the sternum greyishly pilose ; the lateral 

 striations to face, the outer margins of coxae, inner margins of anterior and 

 intermediate femora, and the extreme apices of tibiae and tarsi black. 

 Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation pitchy ; tegmina with the 

 costal membrane pale greenish, the transverse veins at the bases of the 

 second and third apical areas broadly infuscated, and those at the bases of 

 the fifth and seventh areas narrowly infuscated ; the bases of the wings 

 narrowly pale greenish. The opercula are long, — about extending to two- 

 thirds the length of the abdomen, — overlapping internally, their outer 

 margins moderately concave, their inner margins slightly convex, their 

 apices angularly rounded. Long. excl. tegm., $, 38 mm. Exp. tegm., 105 

 to 110 mm. 



Hab. China ; Wa Shan and Chia Kou Ho. 



This species is allied to the Japanese C. bihamata, Motsch., 

 but differs by the larger size, the different markings of the body, 

 and the totally different structure of the opercula, which in 

 Motschulsky's species are widely divergent, and not overlapping 

 as in C. leechi. 



Cicada sinensis, n. sp. 



Head and pronotum greenish ochraceous ; bead with abroad black fascia 

 between the eyes ; pronotum with two short narrow discal black fasciae near 

 anterior margin and a black band across the posterior margin near each lateral 

 area. Mesonotum castaneous, with a central tri-lanceolate greenish ochraceous 

 spot with the surrounding area black, a lateral black fascia on each side 

 outwardly margined with greenish ochraceous, the centre and apices of the 



