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transverse lines towards, the base of the frons, a band on the gengp, a 

 spot including the ocelli, two spots at the eyes and a transverse line 

 (sometimes obliterated) on the vertex, a broadish lateral intramarginal 

 line on the thorax, four basal spots (the median pair somewhat large) , a 

 narrow oblique lateral line (posteriorly abbreviated), and three small 

 posterior spots on the scutellum, basal limbus of the dorsal segments of 

 the abdomen and a lateral spot on the four last ventral segments, black. 

 Tegmina opaque whitish yellow, clouded fuscous, a median spot in the 

 radial area and a spot occupying the middle of the 1-2 paler ulnar areas, 

 the apical areas (the entire eighth area and basal and apical parts of the 

 first area excepted) vitreous, colourless ; ulnar veins marked at the apex 

 and near the apex on both sides with a small fuscous spot : wings 

 lutescent ; a narrow streak and the apical part, outwards broadly, and 

 inwards narrowly, obscurely fuscous ; this apical part at the veins and 

 the veinless limbus and anal area, weakly lutescent. Head obtuse, 

 frons slightly convex : lateral apical part of the vertex lying between 

 the frons and the eyes subequal in breadth to the subbasal part of the 

 frons ; clypeus sinuately truncated at the apex : ocelli more than twice 

 as distant from each other as from the eyes : sides of thorax much 

 angularly dilated, angles somewhat straight, rounded at the extreme 

 apex : sides of the interior ulnar area somewhat parallel behind the 

 middle: metasternum elevated, longitudinally impressed in the middle, 

 sinuated anteriorly : the veinless limbus of both tegmina and wings of 

 equal breadth (Stdl). 



Genus Platt pleura, Amyot & Serville, Stal. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 211. 



Body stout, large : head not or scarcely broader than the scutellum, 

 rarely narrower : ocelli rarely a little more than twice as distant from 

 the eyes as from each other : the sides of the thorax much flattened out, 

 foliaceous, horizontal, anterior angles turning towards the middle of the 

 eyes, anterior margin sinuated behind the eyes ; posterior limbus broad : 

 basal cell of tegmina broad ; ulnar veins emitted from it, distant at the 

 base, interior ulnar area gradually broader towards the apex : entire 

 tympana or the greater part concealed ; opercula moderate, transverse, 

 rounded at the apex, slightly valvate (Stdl). 



2. Plattpleura ciliaris, Linnaeus. 



Cicada ciliaris, Linn., Syst. Nat. (lOth ed.) i, p. 436 (1758) ; Mus. Lnd. Ulr. p. 

 155 (1764) ; Olivier, Enc. Meth. v, p. 757 (1790) ; Germar in Thon's Arch, ii, (2), 

 p. 2 (1830) i Silb., Rev. Ent. ii, p. 78 (1834) : StoU, Cig., p. 102, t. 26, f. 147 (1788). 



