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pubescence. Head in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 ocelli black. Pronotum with a green stripe on the middle, 

 entirelj^ surrounded with a brown border, which somewhat 

 resembles a wine-glass in shape ; this is bordered with green, 

 but the two oblique lobes on each side beyond are brown. 

 Scutellum green, with three broad brown stripes in the middle, 

 united at the base, the central one extending to the cruciform 

 appendage, and the outer ones only half as far; beyond these, 

 on each side, is a broad irregular stripe curving outwards, and 

 on reaching the borders of the scutellum extended outwards as 

 a black edging for a short distance, and inwards as far as the 

 cruciform appendage, before each front angle of which stands a 

 black spot, the cruciform ajDpendage itself being yellowish. 

 Abdomen covered with deep golden pubescence, with more or 

 less silvery pubescence on the sides and towards the middle of 

 the segments ; on the terminal segments and beneath it is w^hiter. 

 Tegmina greenish hyaline; costa and basal cell green, the latter 

 edged below with a brown nervure as far as the radial area 

 extends ; nervures mostly green, interrupted with black spaces 

 towards the base, costa, and middle ; towards the apex they are 

 brown. All the cross-nervures and most of the forks of the 

 nervures are marked with fuscous spots, and there is a row of 

 submarginal fuscous spots on the nervures within the apical 

 areas, which run very regularly. Membrane white. Wings 

 hyaline, with greenish nervures and white membrane. Legs 

 ferruginous brown, hind legs more green ; front femora incras- 

 sated, with two not very large teeth ; hind tibiae with three short 

 spines. Eostrum black at the tip, extending rather beyond the 

 hind coxse ; drums divergent at the extremity, and extending to 

 the end of the first segment of the abdomen. 



Kandy. 



Not closely allied to any other species before me. 



*ClCADA WUBIFTJECA. 



Cicada nubifurca, Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M., Suppl. p. 28 (1858). 

 Described from Ceylon. 



*tCiCADA APiCALis, sp. u. (Plate Y. fig. 1.) 

 Long. corp. 12-14 millim. ; exp. tegm. 34-42 millim. 

 Female. Dull reddish brown, with greyish pubescence; the 

 head, the middle and sides of the pronotum and scutellum, and 



