FAM. CICADID^E 



k'. Abdomen beneath obliquely recurved near lateral margins . . . 14. Genus Basa. 

 2. Abdomen in rj' tubcrculate beneath on second and third abdominal segments. 



a. Head about as long as half the width between eyes ; wings with six apical 



areas ....-.., 9. Genus Calcagninus. 



a'. Head as long as width between eyes ; wings with Jive apical areas. 10. Genus Gudaba. 



Genus TETTIGIA, Amyot 



Tettigia. Amyot, Ann.-Soc. Ent. France (1847), p. i52 (348); Kolenati, Mel. Ent. Vol. 7, p. 6 (1857); 

 Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 23 (1866); Melichar, Cicad. Mitt.-Europ. p. 3 (1896); Goding & 

 Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (1904), p. 5g3. 



Characters. — Head including eyes as broad as base of mesonotum, shorter than pronotum, 

 margins of front a little discontinuous with the lateral margins of vertex, pronotum with the lateral mar- 

 gins moderately ampliate, sinuate, widened posteriorly ; mesonotum including cruciform elevation about 

 as long as head and pronotum together; abdomen somewhat robust, a little longer in length than space 

 between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation; tympanal coverings narrower but scarcely 

 shorter than tympanal cavities; opercula short, not or slightly extending be3'ond base of abdomen; 

 tegmina about three times as long as broad, eight apical areas ; wings with six apical areas. 



Type. 



T. orni, Linnseus. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Palasarctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australasian 

 and neotropical Regions; Cochin China, Madagascar, and Central America. 



1. T.orni. Palsearctic Region. 



Cicada orni, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10), p. 436, 17 (1758); Olivier, Enc. 



Meth. t. 5, p. 753 (1790) ; Germar, Mag. Ins. t. 4, p. 97 (1S21); Amyot 



& Serville, Hist. Hem. p. 481 (1843); Hagen, Stett. Ent.Zeit.V0l.17, 



p. 29 (i856). 

 Tibicen orni, Brulle, Exp. Moree, Zool. Vol. 2, p. no (i832). 

 Tettigonia orni. Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. p. 40, 35 (i8o3). 

 Tettigia orni, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4), Vol. 1, p. 617 (1 861); Melichar, 



Cicad. Mitt. Europ. p. 3. t. i, ff. 3-5 (1896). 

 Tettigonia punctata, Fabricius, Suppl. p. 5i6, 24 (1798). 



2. T. orientalis. 



Tettigia orientalis, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), Vol. 9, p. 460 (1912 



3. T. interrupia. — PI. I, Fig;-, la, b. 



Cicada interrupta. Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 175 (i85o). 



Tibicen interruptus , Goding & Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 



(1904), p. 602. 

 Tettigia australensis, Kirkaldy, The Canad. Ent. (1909) p. 391. 

 A. T. bitrkei. Australia. 



Tibicen burtiei, Distant, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882), p. 126, t. 7, f. 3i7, b ; 



Goding & Frogga't, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (1904), p. 610. 



Tettigia variegata. Goding & Froggatt, loc. cit. p. 594, pi. 18, ff. 9, qa (1904). 



5. T.pennata. Guatemala 



Tettigia pennata. Distant, 73iol. Centr.-Amer. Rhynch. Horn. Vol. 1, p. n 



t. 2. f. 12a, b (1881). 



Cochin China; Siam. 

 Australia. 



6. T. barbara. Algeria. 



Tettigia barbara. Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 24 (1S66) ; Karsch, Berl. Ent. 

 Zeitschr. Vol. 35, p. 107 (1890). 



