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DKSCUIPTION OF AN INDIAN CICADA. 
CICADA IMPERATORIA, fVestwood. (Annals of N. H.) 
Plate 51. 
C. lutco-fulva, capite et thoracis dorso maculis plurimis magnitudine et forma variis, nigris; 
mesothoraccqnc figura trifida notatis; pronoti lateribus in medio emarginatis et angu- 
latis ; abdomine brunneo lateribus pallidioribus macula in singulo segmento utrinqiie 
nigra; alis flavido-hyalinis, venis fulvU; anticarum venis transversis subapicalibus fiisco 
nebulosis maculisque septem versus margincm fuscis. Long, corp, unc. 3^. Expans. 
alar. unc. 8^. 
Inhabits the East Indies (Nepaul, &c.) and the Indian Islands. In my own and other 
collections. 
This fine insect is nearly allied to C.fusca Oliv, Stoll, Cigal, fig. 36, 
from the west coast of Sumatra, as well as to the Cicada flavida, of 
Guerin, figured in Belanger’s “ Voyage aux Indes Orientales.” The 
specimen figured is a male, the drum-covers being visible at the 
sides of the base of the abdomen, hiding the greater part of the 
posterior femora on the underside. They extend no farther than 
is here represented. If this species make a noise proportioned to 
its size, it must indeed be loud. That of the small European species 
has long been famous, as the Odes of Anacreon prove. Having 
in the first volume of this work (p. 98) given an English translation 
of his Ode to the Cicada, a German one by Raraler, quoted by 
Burmeister, is here added. 
©hicttic^ nenn’ ic^j btc^ ! 
iDap bii auf ben 95dumen 
cin mcnig 2:f)au begcijicrt, 
cincm S'cnig fingcjl. 
2)ein gef)bret all unb jebe^, 
, SBais bu in ben Scibcrn fc^aucfl, 
bic 3ot?tc^iciten bringen; 
iDir finb grcunb bic ^anbbcirofjncr, 
3Bei( bu fcincm lebfi ju Seibe, 
Unb bie ©tcrblicben retetren 
2)icb, bep (Sommer^ t^tben 35otcn ; 
Unb licben bid; bie ^ufen 
Unb e^ (icbt bic^ ^boibo^ fcibcr; 
gab bir bic hare 0timme ;— 
5iucb ba^ filter bid; nicf)! btdnget, 
0e^cr, ^rbgcborne, 0dnger, 
Scibenlo^, ol;n’ im g[cif4)e. 
0d»iec biff bu ben ©buern d(?nlid;! 
The plant represented in the plate is the Indian Parochetus 
communis. 
