FAM. CICAD IDiE 4 3 



Geographical distribution of species. — Oriental and Malayan Regions; also found in 

 North Australia. 



a. Opercula in male reaching, or nearly reaching penultimate abdominal segment, concavely 

 sinuate on each side near base and thence convexly ampliated ; apices narrowed and obtusely rounded. 



i.D. mannifera. India, Malaya, N. Australia. 



Cicada mannifera, Linnseus, Mils. Ad. Frid. p. 84, excl. syn. (1754). 

 Tettigonia vaginata, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 266 (1787). 

 Cicada virescens, Olivier, Enc. Meth. Vol. 5, p. 747 (1790). 

 Dundubia immacula, Walker. List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 5o (i85o). 

 Dundubia nigrimacula. Walker, ibidem, p. 63 (iS5o). 

 Dundubia sobria. Walker, ibidem. 



Dundubia varians, Walker, [uec Germ.), ibidem, p. 48. 

 Dundubia mannifera. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 3o, t. 4, f. 17a, b, var. 



ioa,b (1889). 

 Fidicina confinis, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. Vol. 10, p. 92 



(1867); Stoll, Cig. f. 35. 

 var. a. Cephaloxys terpsichore, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 23g (i85o). 



Dundubia mannifera, var. terpsichore, Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad.p. 3g.t. 12, 



f. ia,b (1S89). 



2. D. helena. N. India 



Dundubia helena, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), Vol. 9, p. 641 (1912). 



b. Opercula in male about reaching middle of abdomen, their apices angularly rounded. 



3. D. arata. — PI, 4, Figs. 35a, b, c. Borneo. 



Dundubia arata, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 1, p. 292 (1888) ; 

 Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 42, t. 6, f. -ja,b (1889). 



c. Opercula in male extending beyond middle of abdomen, sometimes very narrow, concave at 

 each side near base ; apices broadly convex. 



4. D. emanatura. India. 



Dundubia emanatura. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 3, p. 5i (1889) ; 

 Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 41, t. 8, f. 3a,b (1889). 



5. D. rtifivena. Malaya. 



Dundubia rufivena. Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 5g(i85o);Dist. Mon. Orient. 

 Cicad. p. 40, t. 6, f. 63,6 (18S9). 



6. D. mellea. Borneo. 



Dundubia mellea. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 40, t. 12, f. ga,b (1889). 



7. D. rafflesi. Java. 



Dundubia rafflesii. Distant, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (i883), p. 1S8; Mon. 

 Orient. Cicad. p. 41, t. 4, f. 4a, b (1889). 



d. Opercula in male elongate and narrow, reaching penultimate abdominal segment, acutelv 

 pointed at apices. 



8. D. intemeraia. India, Malay, Peninsula. 



Dundubia intemerata, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. Vol. 1, p. 84 

 (i856); Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 42, t. 4, f. ia,b (1889). 



36. Genus COSMOPSALTRIA, Stal 



Cosmopsaltria. Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 5 (1866). 



Characters. — Body moderately long and robust, head as long as breadth between eyes, and 

 including eyes as wide as base of mesonotum, with the front not twice as broad at base as anterior 

 margins of the lobes of vertex, lateral margins obliquely continuous to front or very slightly sinuate: 



