JAPANESE CICADIDyE. 



mulberry-trees, and though I have not yet found their eggs, it seems to 

 me that willow is the food plant in the south. It is commonly known 

 as Tcumazemi. 



11. Cicada fia mmata (fig. 12, a, b). 



Cicada fiammata, Distant. Mouog. Orient. Cicad. 1882. 



" £ . Head, mesonotum and abdomen black, the pronotnm red- 

 dish-ochraceous. Head with a spot at base and apex of front, a spot at 

 anterior angles of vertex and a spot behind eyes reddish-ochraceous ; 

 eyes ochraceous. Pronotum with two slender central black fasciae r 

 narrowed, angulated and joined posteriorly ; inner edge of lateral and 

 posterior margins, outer edge of posterior margin and edge at lateral 

 angles, black. Mesonotum with two central obconical spots, the 

 margins of which are reddish ochraceous ; the cruciform elevation 

 (excepting centre and angular apices) also reddish-ochraceous. Abdomen 

 with faint traces of a double longitudinal series of white pilose spots. 

 Body beneath dark castaneous, the sternum thickly clothed with greyish- 

 white pile ; space between eyes and face black, enclosing an ochraceous 

 spot on anterior margin ; legs ochraceous. 



" Tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous and fuscous, 

 ïegmina with the base— not extending beyond basal cell — ochraceous, a 

 black linear streak extending about inner edge of costal membrane which 

 is ochraceous ; transverse veins at the bases of the second and third 

 apical areas, and sometimes the interior of the upper apical area, in- 

 fuscated ; wings with the base narrowly ochraceous, and with an inner 

 and an outer claval ochraceous streak. 



" Long. excl. tegin. Ç 40 mm. Exp. tegm. 120 mm." 



This is a common insect in Hokkaido and is often found near houses. 

 It comes out late in summer, especially in the month of August and 

 September, a little earlier than tsakìitsiiku böshi(Cosmopsaltria opali/era). 

 Its cry is heard from morning till night, especially during the hottest part 

 of the day, producing a noisy peculiar ghi ghi sound, causing the listener 



