178 E. T, Atkinson — Notes on' Indian Rliynchota. [No. 2, 



Genus Cicada, Linnseus, Stal. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 229. 



This is one of the oldest names in the order and has suffered so 

 many changes by the creation of new genera that it would be unprofit- 

 able to trace back its history. Taking the changes of the last quarter of 

 a century, we find that in 1866 Stal added Leptopsaltria, Gosmopsaltria, and 

 Pomponia to the Bunduhia group. The Cicada group including Fidicina 

 was increased in 1861 (A. S. E. F. (4 ser.) i, p. 613) by PsaUoda, Cryp- 

 totympana, Tympanoterpes, and Selymhria, and, in 1864, by Proarna. 

 In 1862, Stal (Rio. Jan. Hem. p. 19) distributed the species of Cicada 

 proper amongst the subgenera Cicada, Taphura, Parnisa, Calyria, and 

 Prunasis. All of these were raised to the rank of genera in 1866 (Hera. 

 Afric. iv, p. 8) and, excepting Cicada, were thrown into the T ibicen grou.'p. 

 To the Cicada group were added Henicopsaltria, Nosola, and Emathia, in 

 1866 ; and to the Tihicen group, Senicotettix in 1858; Pydna, Stagira, Cal- 

 iipsaltria, and Tympanistria, in 1861; and Riistia and Bceturia, in 1866. 

 In 1870, Stal still further divided the species of his restricted Cicada 

 in establishing the subgenera Chremistica, Macrotristia, Cicada, and 

 Dlceroprocta. I doubt much whether any of those Indian species which 

 still bear the generic name Cicada really belong to that genus : if 

 they do, they belong to the subgenus Cicada, which has the sides of 

 the thorax anteriorly without a lobe ; the sides of the last dorsal segment 

 in & posteriorly unarmed, very often produced in an acute tooth in the 

 middle ; the sixth ventral segment in $ broadly, angularly sinuated at 

 the apex ; and the interior ulnar vein straight or but slightly curved. 

 This question can only be settled by an examination of the types. 



63. Cicada (?) ferruginea, Olivier. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 230, No. 74. 



Entirely ferruginous, clouded brown : tegmina and wings of a deep 

 colour, the posterior margins light and transparent (Olivier) . 



64. TiBiCEN (?) AURATUS, Walker. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 230, no. 72. 



cf . Body black, densely tawny pubescent, pale tawny beneath : 

 a band in front of the head, three spots in the ocellar area, face and 

 rostrum, tawny : disc of face, tip of rostrum which reaches the in- 

 termediate COX99 and the antennse, black : anterior lobe of pronotum 

 with the borders and a short stripe, behind which are two triangular 

 spots resting on the hind border ; posterior lobe and two stripes on 

 the mesonotum amplified in the middle and its posterior margin, 



