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fication without comparison with types has pro\ed in the history of this 

 order, I have translated or transcribed, with some omissions and addi- 

 tions, the original descriptions, however unsatisfactory these were. 

 This list of recorded species is, it is believed, tolerably complete, but we 

 have not in our Indian Museum examples of even a moiety of those 

 given, and I would now endeavour to enlist the efforts of observers in 

 India to complete the series. The number of species here described 

 under each family is as follows : — 



CicadidcB, 115 



Cercojpidce 67 



Memhracidoe, 33 



JassidcBy 38 



Fulgoridce, 204—457 

 These with the species indicated as likely to exist but not described 

 bring up the number to close on 500. These figures could probably be 

 doubled in a few years, for the number of Jassidce alone awaiting 

 examination should add several hundred species to our Indian fauna. 



