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16. Genus GRAPTOPSALTRIA, Stal 



Graptopsaltria. Stal, Hem. Air. Vol. 4. p. 3 (1866). 



Characters. — Bod}' robust, attenuated posteriorly; head, including; eyes, narrower than the 

 anterior lateral margins of the pronotum; ocelli wider apart .from eyes than from each other; rostrum 

 extending to about posterior coxa?; pronotum with the lateral margins irregularly convex, not promi- 

 nently ampliated or laminately expanded ; anterior femora robustly spined ; tympana practically covered : 

 opercula short, broad, not extending beyond basal segment of abdomen; tegmina opaque, apical areas 

 eight, transverse vein at the base of the second apical area much curved, interior ulnar area not distinctly 

 widened at apex: wings opaque, apical areas six. 



Type. — G. colorata, Stal. 



Geographical distribution of species. — China, Japan. 



1 . G. colorata. Japan. 



Graptopsaltria colorata, Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 10. p. i6q (1866 . 

 Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 25, t. 2. f. Sa.b (18S9J. 



2. G. iienta. — PI. 2, Figs. I 6a, b, c China. 



Graptopsaltria iienta. Karsch, Ent. Nachr. Vol. 20. p. 5j (1894). 



Division THOPHARIA 



Thopharia. Distant, Ann. Mag. N'at. Hist. (7), Vol. 14, p. 3oi (1904). 



Characters. — Tympana in male very strongly developed and sac-like, projecting beyond the 

 lateral margins of the abdomen and extending to about half its length; opercula in male very small, 

 not reaching base of metasternum ; lateral margins to pronotum almost truncate; tegmina and wings 

 talc-like, semihyaline. 



The representatives of this division are apparently confined of the Australian Continent. 



SYNOPSIS OF GEXEKA 



A. Pronotum very broad, its breadth equalling length of both pro- and mesonotum [including 



the cruciform basal elevation). 



a. Head between eyes as broad as base of mesonotum 1. Genus Thopha. 



B. Pronotum moderately broad, its breadth- considerably less than length of both fro- and 



mesonotum (including the cruciform basal elevation 1. 



b. Head behceen eyes much narrower than base of mesonotum 2. Genus Arunta. 



17. Genus THOPHA, Amyot & Serville 



Thopha. Amyot & Serville. Hist. Hem. p. 471 (1843); Coding lS: Froggatt. Proc. Linn. SoC. N. S. 

 Wales, p. 571 (1904). 



Characters. — Head short, broad, equal in width to apex of pronotum; eyes more or less 

 pedunculated, prominent; ocelli four times more distant from eyes than from each other; apex of 

 clavus acuminate; front destitute of a longitudinal sulcus; pronotum with the lateral margins almost 

 truncate or slightly convex, widened forwardly ; tegmina vitreous, basal area not twice longer than broad, 



