16 M . MATSUMURA. 



est garni de duvet blanc ; les étuis et les ailes sont transparais comme 

 du verre. 



Hab. — " Elle vient du Japon". 



15. Melampsaltria radiator (fig. 14, a, b). 



Melampsalta radiator, übler. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896. 



Mr. P. Uhlek's description of this species is as follows: — 

 "Form of Cicada montata, Hagen, but a little broader, more 

 generally covered with silvery whitish scales, which easily rub off and 

 with the apical valvular ventral segment of the male short, ovate, not 

 tapering at tip, and with the opercula longer, forming curved lobes 

 which approach but do not touch on the middle line of venter. General 

 surface black, polished, with the venter pale fulvous. Vertex a little 

 broader than long, with the apex and base each with a yellowish spot, 

 the latter being placed in an oval cavity, the supra-antennal lobes 

 narrow, testaceous, front moderately blunt, broadly margined with 

 yellow, sulcate on the middle line above, and over this is a large yellow 

 spot, the transverse cari nate lines and grooves distinct, rostrum black, 

 reaching to the middle coxae. Legs greenish, with the base and apex 

 of femora and some lines along their surface, knee tips, and sometimes 

 the middle of tibiae, base and tip of tarsi, besides the nails, and the three 

 spines of anterior femora, black, the inner spine much longer than the 

 others. Pronotnm bordered behind and on the sides with greenish 

 yellow, mesonotum with a deltoid yellow spot each side of disk, connect- 

 ing with a slender line which continues back to the borders of the cross, 

 and from thence on the posterior and lateral carinate borders. Wing 

 coders with large and often irregular meshes, the apical series beginning 

 with a moderately short trangular one, and followed by longer curved 

 ones to the inner bend of the margin, the costal vein greenish yellow, 

 veins dark brown, yellow basally, and including the membrane, wings 

 with brown veins, the inner area striped and margined with smoke 

 brown, the basal membrane reddish, a streak (margined with fuliginous)- 



