HEMIPTERA. 39 



One of the most beautiful species of the Indian Cicada?. The wing cases are black, 

 elegantly reticulated, and spotted with bright blue. At the extremity of the abdomen 

 it has a tuft of long and very delicate hairs, intermixed with others that are rather con- 

 voluted and of a coarser texture. The whole of this insect, but particularly between the 

 abdomen and wings, is sometimes profusely covered with a fine powder of a snowy white- 

 ness, similar to that observed on the Flata limbata in the imperfect state ; hence we 

 may conclude it is also one of those insects which furnish the white wax* so highly 

 esteemed in China. 



CICADA SPLENDIDULA. 



Plate 16. fig. 4. 



Ch. Sp. C. elytris fusco-aureis, femoribus anticis incrassato-dentatis rufis. Long. Corp. alls 



claus. § unc. 

 C. with golden brown elytra, the anterior femora incrassated, toothed and red, thorax 



and scutellum varied with yellow and black. Length, with the wings closed, 



I inch. 

 Svx. Cicada splendidula, Fabricius Ent. Syst. 4. p. 25. Syst. Rhyng. p. 42. 



Figured from the unique specimen in the collection of Mr. Drury, described by 

 Fabricius. 



CERCOPIS ABDOMINALIS. 



Plate 16. fig. 5. 



Family. CercopiDjE. 

 Genus. Cercopis, Fabricius. 



Cn. Sp. C. atra nitida, thorace immaculato, elytris basi fasciaque media flavescentibus ; ab- 

 domine sanguineo. Long. Corp. alis clausis ^ unc. 

 C. black shining, thorax without spots, elytra w ith the base and a central fascia 

 yellowish, abdomen sanguineous. Length, with the wings shut, |. inch. 



Svs. Cicada abdominalis, Donovan, \st Edit. 



Cercopis Heros ? Fabr. Syst. Rhyng. p. 89. 



* Vide Sir G. Staunton's Hist. Emb. China. 



