FAM. CICADIDjE 



Cicadii ancea. Walker. List Horn. Vol. I, p. 207 (i85o). 



Cicadatra striata. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. i35, t. i5, i. 2a. b (18921. 

 12. C. sanhara. India. 



Tibicen sankara, Distant. Trans Ent.Soc. Lond. (1904), p. 673, t.3o.f. 8a, b; 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Rhynch. Vol. 3, p. i32. f. 57 ip. i33) (1906). 

 i3. C. incoiispicua. India. 



Cicadatra incoiispicua, Distant. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), Vol. 9, p. 46.3(1912). 



14. C. raja. — PI. I , Figs. 7a, b. N. W. India. 



Cicadatra raja, Distant. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 17, p. 1S4 1906). 



i5. C. olivacea. Caucasia. 



Cicadatra olivacea, Melichar, Mitt. Kaukas. Mas. Vol. 7. p. 3. f. 1 ' 1913'. 



58. Genus PSALMOCHARIAS, n. nom. 



Sena. Distant. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. i5, p. 307 (icjco) (nom. prasocc). 

 Psalmocharias. Kirkaldy, The Entomologist, Vol. 41, p. 1^4 (1908) (n. nom.). 



Characters. — Head about as long as space between eyes, lateral margins of front somewhat 

 at right angles to lateral margins of vertex, eyes scarcely projecting beyond the anterior angles of the 

 pronotum ; pronotum shorter than the mesonotum, its lateral margins more or less oblique, the posterior 

 angles being obliquely dilated ; abdomen longer than the space between apex of head and base of cruci- 

 form elevation; tympana largely exposed, the flaps being a little shorter and verj' much narrower than 

 the tympanal orifices; rostrum just passing the intermediate coxa?; opercula in male small, transverse, 

 not extending beyond base of abdomen ; anal appendages large. 



Type. — P. qiiccrula, Pallas. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Palaearctic Regions and British India. 



1. P. querula. Palaearctic, N. W. India. 



Cicada quarula, Pallas, Reise, t. 2, p. 729 (1773). 



Cicada [Cicadatra) querula, var. paliuri. Kolenati. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 



Vol. 3o (1 1, pp. 410. 412, t. 5. f. 4 & t. 6, f. 5 (1857). 

 Cicada Steveni, Stal, Oefv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. (1854), p. 243. 

 Cephaloxys quadrimacula. Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 238 (i85o). 

 Cicada nigrosignata, MS. 1 Mus. Vienne). 

 Cicadatra querula. Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 134, 1. 12, f. 2a. b (1892) ; 



Fauna Brit. Ind.. Rhynch. Vol 3, p. i35, f. 58 (1906). 

 Stoll, Cig. f. 6. 



2. P.flavicollis. —PI. I, Figs. 8a, b. Egypt. 



Cicadatra flavicollis, Horvath. Bull. Soc. Ent. Egypte (19101, p. 114. 



3. P. viridifiava, nov. spec. ij. 



4. P. rugipeiinis. India. 



Cicada rugipe/uiis. Walker, Ins. Saund., Horn. p. 17 (i85S). 



Cicadatra rugipennis, Distant, Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. i35,t. 12, f. ya,b (1892). 



5. P. acberi. India. 



Tibicen Acberi. Distant. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 1, p. 373 (1888). 

 Cicadatra acberi. Distant. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. i36, t. i5, f. 3a,b (r8g2). 



1) Psalmocharias viridifiava. nov. spec. — Q .Head, pronotnm and mesonotum flavescent; area of the ocelli, narrow anterior and 

 broad posterior margins, and a central lo igitudmal fascia (broadmed anteri >rly and posteriorly) to pronotum. a large triangulated spot on disk and the 

 cruciform elevation to mesonotum. virescent; abdomen above testaceous, virescent at base and with two black spots on apical segment : body beneatb 

 ocbraceous, margins of sternum, cox.c and legs more or less virescent; tegmina and wings hyaline, extreme bases of both testaceous, costal membrane of 

 the first, and the venation of both, virescent; head deflected anterior!}', front not prominent; pronotum distinctly shorter than mesonotum; greatest 

 width of tegmina considerably more than one third of length, but scarcely oroader than wings : length of head about egual to breadth between eyes. 



Long. excl. tegm. Q . 28 millim. Exp. teym. ;5 millim. 



Hab. Turkestan '- 1 Kedsehenko, Brit .Vus.l. 



Considerable confusioa exists as to this species. It was some time since presented to the British iluseum, by D r de Giacomi. who had 

 purchased it from a dealer under the name of Cicadetta viriiiiJUtva. Horvath. D r Horvath however has renounced ary knowledge of the species and I 

 therefore describe it under ic name by which it may have been distributed elsewhere. 



