8 HOMOPTERA 



Characters. — Head (including eyes) narrower than base of mesonotum, its length less than 

 width between eyes, but about as long as pronotum ; pronotum much shortei than mesonotum, its lateral 

 margins more or less obliquelv straight, its posterior lateral angles a little ampliated; mesonotum 

 convex; abdomen in male as long as space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation ; 

 tympanal coverings both narrower and shorter than tympanal orificies; opeicula in male short and 

 transverse, not extending beyond the base of abdomen ; anterior femora spined beneath: tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, the first sometimes a little maculate, its greatest width more than a third of length, 

 apical areas eight; wings with six apical areas. 



Type. — C. atra. Olivier. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Palaearctic, just entering British India. 



i. C. atra. Palaearctic Region. 



Cicada atra. Olivier, Eric. Meth. Vol. 5, p. 719 (1700). 

 Cicada concinna, Germar. Mag. Ent. Vol. 4. p. qS (1821). 

 Cicada transversa. Germar, in Them's Ent. Arch. Vol. 2, p. 7 (i83o). 

 Tibicen vitreus, Brulle, Exp. Moree.Zool.Vol.3,p. no, t.3i,f. u is-.j . 

 Tibicen hvalinatns, Brulle, lor cit. p tit. f. T2, Q. 

 Cicada ziczac, MS. Mus. Ijerulin. 



Cicadatra aha. Kolenati. Bull. Soc Nat. M >sc. Vol. 3o, p. 407. t. 5. f. 2 

 1 1S.S71, excl. syn. ; Fieber, Rev. Mag Zool. (3), Vol. 4, p. 53 1876}. 

 var. aquila, tan. pallipes, Fieber, loc. cit. Vol. 4, p. 53, 54, 55 1S76;. 



2. C. platyptera. S. E. Palasarctic Region. 



Cicadatra platyptera, Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool (3), Vol. 4. p. 4J (1S76). 



3. C. lineola. Syria, Persia. 



Cicada lineola, Hagen, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 17, p. 66 (18S6I. 



Tettigia [Cicadrata) lineola, Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr (41, Vol. 1, p. 617(1861). 



Cicadatra persica, Kirkaldy, The Canad. Ent. (1909) p. 3gi. 



4. C. tenebrosa. S. E. Palaearctic Region. 



Cicadatra tenebrosa. Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3), Vol. 4. p. 5o (1876). 



5. C. hyalina. E. Europe. 



Teltigonia hyalina, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. p. 5i6 (1798). 

 Cicada virens, MS. Mus. Berolin. 



Cicada [Cicadrata 1 hyalina and var. geodesma, Kolenati, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 Vol. 3o, p. 412, 414, t. 5, f. 6a,h (1837). 

 var. virens, Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3), Vol. 4, p. 5g (1S76). 



6. C. ochreata. Persia. 



Cicadatra ochreata, Melichar. Ann. Mus Zool.St-Petersb.Vol.7,p. 80(1902). 



7. C. alhageos. E. Palseartic Region. 



Cicadatra atra. var. alhageos, Kolenati, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. Vol. 3o, 



p. 409, t. 5, f. 3a 1 1857). 

 Cicadatra glycirrhiza. var. alhageos, Puton, Cat. Hem. p. 67 (1886). 

 Cicadatra atra, var. glycirrhiza, Kolenati, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. Vol. 3o, 



p. 410, t. 5. f. 3i 11857). 

 Cicadatra glycirrhiza:, Fieber, Rev. Mag. Zool. (3), Vol. 4. p. 57 (1876). 

 Cicada viridissima, Walker, List Horn. Suppl. p. 28 n858i. 

 Cicadatra alhageos, Melichar, Ann.Mus.Zool.St-Petersb.Vol.7, p. 81(1902). 



8. C. segeium. S. W. Europe. 



Cicada segetum, Rambur. Faun. Ent. Andal., Vol. 3, p. 199 (i83g). 



9. C. bitrriaiia. Transcaucasia. 



Cicadatra [Rustavelia) burriana. Horvath, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Hung. 

 (1912), p. 606. f. 7. 



10. C. xaiitts. India. 



Cicada xantes. Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 198 (i85o). 

 Cicadatra xanthus, Stal. Oefv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. (18621, p. 485. 

 Cicadatra xantes. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 1.35, t. i5, f. ia,b (1892). 

 Cicada subvenosa. Walker, Ins. Saund., Horn. p. 18 (iS58). 



11. C. striata. India. 



Cicada striata. Walker. List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 206 (i85o). 



