HOMOPTERA 



FAM. CICADID/E 



SUBFAM. CICADIN.E 

 by W. L. DISTANT 



WITH 7 COLOURED PLATES 



"n 1840, Westwood (Introd. Mod. Class. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 420) for this family of Homopterous 

 insects, used the name Cicadidas, which as he stated corresponds with the Cicada manni- 

 fei-a Linn., the Chantenses of Latreille, and the Strididantia of Burmeister. He did not 

 however subdivide the family. In 1843, Amyotand Serville (Hist. Nat. Ins. He'mipt. p. 458) 

 employed the family name Strididaiifes, and these writers may be regarded as the first to really break up 

 and generically arrange the family so far as material at that time was available for stud}', They arranged 

 the genera in two Tribes — Reticelles and Octicelles, but this grouping does not fall in with the more 

 modern views of classification. In i85o, Walker (List. Horn. Ins. Pt. 1) described a large number of 

 species, many of which were subsequently proved to be synonyms, but he did nothing to revise the 

 classification or to propose a new one. In 1866, Stal (Hem. Afr. Vol. 4) under the family name Stridu- 

 lantia. gave a » Conspectus generum », many of the genera being afterwards (Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1866, and 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861) more fully described and species allotted to the same. In 1870. Stal (Oefv. Vet.- 

 Akad. Fork, used the familv name Cicadina in his description and enumeration of Philippine Homop- 

 tera. The arrangement here used is one which. I suggested in my Synonymical Catalogue of Homoptera. 

 Pt. 1, Cicadida, 1906 and which had previously (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.) appeared in sections. 



Stridulantes. Latreille, Fam. Nat. Regne An. p. 426 (i825); Amyot & Serville, Hem. p. 458 (1843). 

 Stridulantia. Burmeister, Handb. Ent. 2, I, pp. 102-170 (i835); Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 1 (1866). 

 Cicadidae. Westwood, Intr. Mod. Class. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 422 (1840); Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 1 



(1889). 

 Cicadariae. Packard (nee Latreille), Guide Study Ins. ed. 5, p. 533(1876). 



