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of the subject which was well separated by Burmeister under the name of "Partial Orismolog)'."
Fig.
1.
General structure of Pomponia imperatoria.
SYNOPSIS OF GENERA.
1. Lateral margins of the pronotum ampliated and more or less angularly produced. a. Tegmina with eight apical areas. b. Expanse of head, including eyes, broader than mesonotum. bb. Expanse of head, including eyes, not broader than mesonotum. aa. Tegmina with the venation dense and furcate, the apical areas numerous, but small and irregularly formed. --.--.. 2. Lateral margins of the pronotum convex, but not angularly produced. A. Tegmina and wings more or less opaquely coloured. c. Lateral margins of the pronotum somewhat convex but even. d. Head, including eyes, equal in width to anterior lateral margins of pronotum. dd. Head, including eyes, narrower than anterior lateral margins of pronotum. cc. Lateral margins of the pronotum anteriorly subampliated and somewhat toothed. AA. Tegmina and wings either totally or partially hyalme. B. Lateral margins of the pronotum more or less distinctly toothed. ('. Second and third ventral segments in male with distinct lateral tubercles ec. Ventral' segments without tubercles. /. Opercula long, generally reaching beyond middle of abdomen. (■/. Head with the front large and convex, about twice as broad at base as anterior margins of the lobes of vertex. h. Eostrum scarcely reaching the posterior coxs. grj. Head with the front not twice as broad at base as anterior margins ofthelobesofvertex.
hli. Eostrum reaching, sometimes slightly passing, the posterior cosas. ff. Opercula long, at least reaching centre and, sometimes apex, of abdomen. fff. Opercula short and transverse. i. Interior ulnar area normal. . - - - ii. Interior ulnar area broad and beyond base distinctly ampliated. BB. Lateral margins of the pronotum not toothed. k. Metasternum elevated at middle and furnished with a posterior process turning backwards. - - - - - A7i. Metasternum not, or very slightly, elevated, but not pro\'ided with posterior process. . . - - pcecil0ps.\ltuia.
Platypleura.
polyneura.
Tacua.
Graptopsaltria.
Tosena.
Leptopsaltria.
DUNDUBIA.
Cosmopsaltria.
Pomponia.
psithyristria.
Cryptotympana.
Cicada.
.ORIENTAL CICADIDM.
Genus PCECILOPSALTRIA.
PcecUopsnhna, Still, Hem. Afr. vol. iv. p. 2 (18G0|; Atkins. -T. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 211 11H85); ibid. vol.Iv.p.143(1886).
Body robust, somewiiat short. Head broad, truncate anteriorly, including ej-es broader tban the base of the mesonotum ; ocelli about twice and sometimes thrice the distance from eyes as from each other ; face moderately convex, not prominent above. Pronotum with the lateral margins ampliated, or horizontally and laminately expanded, obtusely or acutely angulated near centre. Anterior femora not distinctly spined. Metastevnum elevated, the elevated i)ortion centrally sulcated and somewhat sinuately truncated. Tympana practically covered ; opercula short, broad, their apices more or less convexly rounded. Tegmina with the basal cell or area broad, irregular, with four or sometimes five angles ; ulnar veins widely separated at their bases ; interior ulnar area somewhat broadened at apex. This genus has a wide distribution ; it is found in tropical and subtropical Africa, throughout the Oriental region and enters the Palearctic fauna at China. Of twenty-five species at present known to the writer or otl)erwise recorded, no less than twenty-one are found in our fauna, and are here enumerated, nineteen only being figured, as two have proved to the present time unprocurable.
Many of the species show considerable dissimilarity to each other in coloration, structure, and general appearance ; specific variation itself exists only to a moderate degree, and is principally confined to the markings of the tegmina and wings.
A. Tegmina and irimj.i clear and unspotted. ^' ■ if I ^ C ■ Y' a.Pronotalanglesveryprominentandacute, en •■<-- 1. Poecilopsaltria bufo. (Tab. VIIL, fig. 20, a, h.)
Oxypleura hufo, Walker, List. Hom. i. p. 27, u. 9 (1850); Atkins. -J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 216, u. 15 il885). Platii/iieura {Oxijiileura) hufo, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 195, n. 44 (1874). Plati/pleuni hufo, Atkins. .J. A. S. Beng. vol. Iv. p. 149, n. 10 11886). This species is only known to the writer by Walker's type in the collection of the British Museum. That specimen is here figured, and Walker's original description, slightly remodelled in sequence, is reproduced.* "Body tawny; head and chest very broad: head much narrower than the fore-chest, + adorned with two lilack irregular bands, the hinder one passing over the region of the eyelets ; face very slightly convex : mouth I tawny, with a black tip, reaching the hind border 'of the drums § ; eyes not prominent; feelersll black : fore-chest broadest in the middle ; scutcheon 1' adorned with a blackish mark in the middle : furrows blackish; hind-scutcheon** pale tawny, ferruginous, much widened, and forming a very projecting right angle on each side: scutcheon of tiie middle-chest tt ferruginous: hind border very slightly excavated: abdomen ferruginous, shorter and narrower than the chest, J ♦ tawnj' at the tip and beneath ; operrula';§ tawniy, partly pitchy, close ; drums tawny, rather large, nearly meeting, less than half the leugtli of the abdomen, their disks darker : legs tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two oxtreiuely *AcomparisonisalsoattemptedoftlicstructuraltermsusedbyWalkerandthosefollowedinthiswork. I Prosterniun. J Bostrum.
§ Opercula.—The rostniin considerably jiasses tlie posterior margin of tlie opercula.
II Antennip. 'I Pronotum. *^- Posterior margin of pronotuui.
ff Mesonotum. jj Sternum. §§ Tympanal coverings.
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short and blunt tawny teeth ; wings with an exceedingly slight tawny tinge, tawny towards the base, bright tawny along the fore border ; veins tawny, darker towards the tips ; cross veins darker. Second marginal areolet* nearly as long as the first; first cross vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than four times its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, nearly twice the length of the first; third nearly straight, very slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slanting, forming a very slightly acute angle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth curved, forming a slightly acute angle." Long. excl. tegm. ^ . 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 86 millim. Exp. prouot. angl. 19 millim. Hab. — East India (sic) ; (Brit Mus.).
Nothing can be more unsatisfactory than such a habitat as "East India," and the proper locahty of the species is still to be discovered.
aa.Pronotalanglesmoderatelyprominentandacute.
2. Poecilopsaltria canescens. (Tab. VIII., tig. 18, a, b.)
Oxijideura canescens, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 83 (1867). Platypleura (Oxypleura) canescms, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 197, n. 50 (1874). PhUypleura [Oxijpleura) acutipmnis, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 195, n. 45 (1874). Head and pronotum ochraceous ; a spot at anterior angles of front, a transverse fascia between eyes widened at area of ocelh, a small spot between oceUi and eyes, lateral margins of the pronotum and the inner edge of the posterior margin (broken at centre) black. Mesonotum dark castaneous, with the following black markings : — a central fascia widened in front of cruciform elevation, two obconical spots on anterior margin and a longitudinal fascia on each lateral area. Abdomen castaneous, somewhat thickly clothed with greyish pile. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ; a transverse fascia between eyes, central sulcation to face, margins of the laterally dilated prosternum, a small spot at bases of opercula, and a spot at bases of posterior (and sometimes also of intermediate) tibiae, black.
Tegmina pale hyaline; the costal membrane and basal cell ochraceous, the venation brownish-ochraceous; the transverse veins at bases of third, fifth, and seventh apical areas, and the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas, slightly infuscated. Wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous or brownish-ochraceous. The face is very strongly transversely striate, and its central sulcation is very broad. The rostrum just passes the posterior coxae and reaches the central connecting angles of the opercula, which are broad and short, not extending beyond the base of the abdomen.
Long. excl. tegm. ,? , '23 millim. Exp. tegm. 82 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 14 millim. Hab.— SuMATBA (V. Lansberg— Leyden Mus.). Banda (Wallace— Brit. Mus.). Timor Laut (Forbes —coll. Dist.). Aru Islands (Wallace— Brit. Mus. ; Beccari— Genoa Mus.). The form described by Mr. Butler as P. (0.) acidipennis, is a sHght variety, but I possess a specimen from Timor-Laut which is quite intermediate between that form and the typical P. canescens, Walli. This species has evidently a wider distribution in the Malayan Archipelago than our present collections enable us to describe.
3. Poecilopsaltria calypso. (Tab. X., fig. 3, a, b.)
Oxijpleura calypso, Kirby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 553.
This species is only known to the writer by the type in the British Museum (which is here figured), and Mr. Kirby's description, which is here reproduced : — "Male. Black, with testaceous markings. Head black; front of vertex with a wide testaceous stripe on each side, extending from the inside of the eye to the striated portion of the face. Longitudinal * Apical area.
ORIENTAL CICADID.1^.. 7 sulcation broad, rather deep, black, surmounted by a trapeziform ochreous spot ; the transverse striations, except the upper ones, are marked with ochreous, ending in a continuous ochreous stripe, not striated, on each side of the extremity of the longitudinal sulcation. Sides of face clothed with thick yellowish-grey hair ; labrum with a longitudinal testaceous stripe, expanded above and below ; proboscis testaceous, black towards the extremity, and reaching as far as the hinder trochanters; antenna black. Pronotum testaceous, entirely so behind ; a dumbbell-shaped black mark in front of this, extending to the front edge, and the central sutures blackish ; sides not greatly expanded, with irregular black markings, and clothed with grey hair; mesonotum black, with two short thick tawny stripes on each side, not reaching the front edge, and a spear-shaped tawny mark, filled with black in the middle, directed forwards ; scutellum with the hinder half and lateral ridges testaceous. Abdomen black; sutures narrowly edged with testaceous, especially on the sides; segment 7 with two testaceous dots in the middle and a larger spot on each side. Sternum mostly black, clothed with greyish hair ; legs testaceous ; coxae, four front femora, and tarsi streaked with black above ; opercula testaceous, extending nearly to the end of the first segment of the abdomen. Abdomen beneath testaceous ; basal segment entirely black, the following segments triangnlurly blackish on each side at the base, the last two lateral lobes spotted with black. Tegulie and wings hyaline, with brown nervures ; costal nervures and inner marginal nervures testaceous."' Long. excl. tegm. 28 millim. Exp. tegm. 76 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 13 millim.* Hab. — Christmas Island (Lister — Brit Mus.).
B. Tcginina and wings clear, hut more or less spotted.
4. Pcecilopsaltria polita. (Tab. L, tig. IG, a, h.)
Oxypleiira polita, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 29, n. 11 (1850).
Phiti/pleurti {Oxypleura) polita, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 19G, n. 40 (1874). Head, pronotum, and mesonotum tawny-ochraceous ; head with some black spots on fi'ont and a broken transverse black fascia between the ej-es ; pronotum with two black discal spots, the anterior one longitudinal, the posterior one transverse; mesonotum with four black spots on anterior margin, the two central ones smallest, a central longitudinal line not reachmg anterior margin, and a small spot in front of each anterior angle of the basal cruciform elevation ; abdomen black, tympanal coverings, lateral posterior margins of the first segment, posterior margins of the second, third, and fourth segments, and a large spot on each side of the apical segment ochraceous. Head beneath, sternum, and opercula ochraceous ; a spot on each side of anterior margin and the central sulcation to face, a transverse spot between face and eyes, and the interior area of opercula black; abdomen beneath dark castaneous. Tegmina pale hyaline, costal membrane and venation brownish-ochraceous, transverse vein at base of second ulnar area, and the transverse veins at bases of apical areas faintly infuscated, faint fuscous spots on lower margins of second and third ulnar areas, and a small double series near the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas.
The pronotum is considerably and angularly produced on each side, the rostrum passes the posterior coxae, and extends to near the inner angles of the opercula.
y<ir. a. Tegmina with all the fuscous markings darkened and enlarged, and with the addition of the basal cell, a spot in centre and at apex of radial area, and a spot near base of fourth ulnar area, also pale fuscous.
Long. excl. tegm. 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 70 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 12 to 12^ millim. Hab.— Continental India ; Karwar, Canara, Trevandrum (Calc. Mus. and coll. Dist.). The varietal form described above was collected at Trevandrum. The species is evidently a continental one, and its habitat is now for the tirst time published, as Walker had no knowledge of the locality from which the British Museum specuueu was derived. *Ihavetakenthesedimensiousfromthefigure,asMr.Kirb.vhasappendednonetohisdiagnosis.
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5. PcEcilopsaltria cervina. (Tab. V., fig. 12, a, h.)
Platyplcura cermin, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 16, n. 22 (1850); Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 172; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 217, n. 16 (1885) ; ibid. Iv. p. 149, n. 1 (1886). Platijpleura straminea. Walk. List Horn. i. p. 17, n. 23 (1850).
Plutypleiiia (O.ri/pleiini) ccrrimi, Butl. Cist. Ent. vol. i. p. 198, n. 52 (1874). The following is Walker's description of this species : — " $ . Body pale buff : head nearly as broad as the fore-chest ; face very slightly convex ; mouth pale buff, with a black tip extending to the hind hips : eyes not prominent : feelers pitchy, buff at the base : fore-chest of equal breadth from the fore border to the hind border ; hind-scutcheon widened, and nearly straight on each side ; hind border of the scutcheon of the middle chest very slightly excavated ; abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest: drums very small, far apart; legs pale buff; claws black, tawny towards the base ; fore thighs armed with small teeth ; hind shanks beset with buff spines whose tips are black ; wings whitish ; veins yellow ; fore-wings buff along the fore border ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of brown dots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets. " Second marginal areolet much longer than the first ; first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, about twice the length of the first ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much shorter than the third ; fifth curved, forming a very slightly acute angle."
Long. excl. tegm. <? . 18 millim. Exp. tegm. 50 miUim. Exp. pronot. angl. 9 milhm. Hab. — Continental India ; North Bengal (Miss Campbell, Brit. Mus. ; and Calc. Mus.) This appears to be a very rare species, or at all events is very seldom found in collections ; it is probably quite confined to Continental India, and even there its distribution may be considerably locahsed. The male specimen figured is in the possession of the Calcutta Museum.
C. Wings always more or less opaque.
D. Terjmina opaquely spotted or handed, j^ > '■*' 6. Pcecilopsaltria basi-viridis. (Tab. IX., fig. 6, a, h.)
Platypleura basi-viridis, Walker, List. Horn. i. p. 18, n. 24 (1850); Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 188, n. 19 (1874). Head and thorax above brownish-ochraceous ; the posterior margins of pro- and meso-notums stramineous; head with a large spot on each side of front, and a transverse fascia between the eyes, enclosing ocelli and connected with base, black; pronotum with a central discal angulated spot, two transverse spots on centre of posterior margin, a somewhat obliciue spot behind eyes, the lateral margins and the furrows black: mesonotum with four obconical spots on the anterior margin, the central ones shortest, a large spear-shaped central spot— not reaching anterior margin,— on each side of this a small rounded spot, a spot on the centre of anterior margin and the anterior angles of the cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen blackish, the tympanal coverings and the posterior segmental margins ochrnceous. Body beneath dull ochraceous ; central sulcation and anterior margin of face,— excluding centre,— a large spot between face and eyes, apex of rostrum and apices of the tarsi black.
Tegmina hyaline, the venation brownish, costal membrane brownish with two blackish spots ; basal cell brownish with a darker spot, a curved fascia crossing near base, followed by a more waved macular fascia, a dark and outwardly concave macular fascia crossing beyond end of radial area, an oblique fascia situate on the transverse veins at bases of apical areas, and extending from post-costal area to about half the lireadth of tegmina, and a double series of small obscure spots on apices of longitudinal veins to
OllIEXTAL CICADIDJE. 9 apical aveas dark brownish ; wing3 ochraceons, inarsins broadly — especially at apex— <lark brownish, with a pale marginal whitish spot at apex and centre of posterior margin.
Long. excl. tegm. (? , 18 millim. Exp. tcgm. 52 to 55 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 10 millim. Ilab. — Continental India : Karwar (Calc. Mus.*.
This is another of those species described by Walker, to which, at the time, no locality could be given ; but a specimen recently forwarded to me by Mr. Atkinson, which had been captured at Karwar, enables the species to be added to our fauna.
7. PcEcilopsaltria basialba. (Tab. VIII., fig. 19, a, h.)
(Xri/plenraiHiainllHi,Wallcer,ListHorn.i.p.2G,u.8(1850).
PhiKjpleui-,! haxialha, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 191, n. 82 (1874); Atkins. J. A. S. Beug. vol. Iv. p. 147, n. 7 (1886). This species being only known to the writer by the typical specimen in the British Museum, the usual plan of giving the original description is followed : — " Body yellow, clothed with white hairs, covered beneath with white powder ; forehead adorned with a black band in front and behind, and with a stripe of short black bands on each side ; cheeks also with slender black bands ; eyes tawny ; eyelets red ; feelers tawny, with black bands and tips ; fore-chest adorned with seven small black marks ; middle-chest adorned with three black stripes, the side pair oblique, the middle one straight, widened on each side by the fore border, and having a small black spot on each side near the hind border ; abdomen black ; drums, tip and hind borders of the segments yellow; legs yellow, clothed with short white hairs; tips of the claws black; hind-shanks beset with tawny spines ; fore thighs armed beneath with two small teeth ; wings colourless, white at the base above, brown at the base beneath ; from this brown hue a short tawny stripe proceeds along the hind border, and communicates with an oblique brown band which crosses the wing near its base ; hind-wings colourless, dark brown with a whitish outline for near half the surface from the base, which is tawny ; flaps dark brown ; veins tawny, pitchy at the tips of the fore-wings.
" Second marginal areolet as long as the first ; first cross-vein nearly straight, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by full five times its length ; second very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, a little more than twice the length of the first ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth curved, upright, forming a slightly acute angle."
Long. excl. tegm. 21 millim. Exp. tegm. 62 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 11 millim. Hab. — Continental India ; North Bengal (Miss Campbell — Brit. ilus.).
This appears to be either a very rare or a very local species.
8. Poecilopsaltria subrufa, (Tab. I., fig. 1, a, h.)
Oxypleimi siihru/ci, Walker, List Hom. i. p. 25. u. 7 (1850).
Platijpleiim subrufa, Butl. Cist. Eut. i. p. 192, n. 36 (1874); Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 21C, n. 14 (1885); ibid. Iv. p. 148, n. 9 (188G).
Head brownish-ocbraceous ; lateral and basal margin of front, anterior lateral margins of vertex and a transverse fascia between the eyes black ; pronotum brownish-ochraceous, the posterior and lateral margins stramineous, edges of the dilated lateral margins and a small obscure central discal spot black : mesonotum pale castaneous, with four obconical black spots on anterior margin, the central two shortest, a central black elongate discal spot, and a small rounded black spot in front of each anterior angle of the D
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basal cruciform elevation ; abdomen black, with the posterior segmental margins narrowly castaneous ; head beneath, rostrum, sternum, opercula and legs ochraceous ; head with the central sulcation and a large spot on each side of anterior margin of face and a broad fascia between face and eyes black; abdomen beneath castaneous, with the posterior segmental margins paler.
Tegmina with about basal third opaque, remainder hyaline; base, a subbasal oblique fascia and a shorter transverse fascia at about centre brownish, the space between base and the subbasal fascia •obscure creamy white, the costal membrane ochraceous, its anterior edge minutely spotted with brown, venation brownish-ochraceous, the apical margins of the ulnar areas infuscated, and some elongate spots on the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas of the same colour; wings dark brownish with a central obscure creamy fascia not reaching posterior margin, the apical margin and a spot on posterior margincreamywhite.
The transverse striations of the face are coarse and profound, the rostrum reaches the interior angles of the opercula, which have their posterior and lateral margins oblique.
Long. excl. tegm. <? , 28 millim. Exp. tegm. 75 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 14 millim. Hab.— Continental India— no locality— (coll. Dist.). Ceylon; Colombo (Calc. Mus.). This is another scarce species in collections. Walker's type is unlocaHsed. I possess a specimen simply labelled "India," and the Indian Museum contains an example from Colombo. The Cicadidce of Ceylon have still to be collected.* 9. Poecilopsaltria octoguttata. (Tab. I., fig. 5, a, b.)
Tettiyonia 8-guUata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 516, 22-23 (1798); Syst. Ebyng. p. 39, 83 (1803). Tettlgoniaoctoguttata,Coqueb.111.Icon.Ins.i.p.34,t.9,f.1(1799).
Oxypleura sanguiJJua, Walk. List Hem. i. p. 24, n. 6 (1850); Ins. Sauud. Horn. p. 2 (1858). Pmilopsaltria octoguttata, StiU, Berl. Ent. Zeit. x. p. 168, n. 1 (1860).
Platypleura octoguttata, Butl. Cist. Ent. i. p. 192, n. 85 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. p. 210, n. 13, (1885); ibid. Iv. p. 148, n. 8 (1886).
Head and eyes ochraceous ; front, a transverse fascia between the eyes, and a spot behind the eyes black ; pronotum castaneous, the posterior and lateral margins ochraceous, two spots on anterior edge of posterior margin and the area of the lateral margins black ; mesonotum ochraceous, with five large black spots, four obconical on anterior margin—the central two shortest-and one large discal, narrowed and pointed anteriorly and widened and dilated posteriorly, and a black spot on each side of the cruciform elevation. Abdomen blackish, clothed with greyish pile; tympanal coverings anteriorly dull ochraceous. Head beneath, sternum, legs and opercula dull ochraceous ; a transverse fascia between the eyes— containing a small ochraceous spot at centre and each side of face — central sulcation and posterior margins of face, some sternal spots, basal margins of opercula and apex of rostrum black ; tibiae more or less castaneous ; abdomenbeneathblack.
Tegmina with about basal half opaque, remainder hyaline, costal membrane ochraceous, with two dark brown spots, venation ochraceous, a basal patch, a broad transverse fascia at about one-third from base, a waved fascia united to the previous fascia at apex of radial area and apex of lower ulnar area, which is again united to a narrow waved fascia at bases of first five apical areas, and a double series of small spots near apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas, dark chocolate-brown ; between these basal fasciffi are a narrow transverse fascia, and a spot near apex of radial area, which are creamy opaque-white ; •wings dark chocolate-brown with basal sanguineous rays, and the outer margin — not extending to anal angle—palewhitehyaline.
*Onewishesthatanentomologistcouldbesenttothisislandwithinstructionssomewhatsimilartothosegiven byProf.WardtoMr.Hornaday—"PlunderCeylon.Raketheislandoveraswithafine-toothedcomb;catcheverythingyou canmthreemonths'time,andsendmethebestofit."—Hornaday,W.J.,'TwoYearsintheJungle,'p.248.
ORIENTAL CICADIDJE. 11 Var. a.—Wings -with a subcostal ochraccous iiatch.
Var. b.— "Wings ochraceous, the outer area only chocolate-brown, and the sanguineous rays entirely absent.
Long. excl. tegm. <? . 24 to 26 miUim. Exp. tegm. 73 to 80 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 14 millim. Hab.— Continental India: Panjab — Wazeerabad* (Hearsay— Brit. Mus.) ; North Bengal (Campbell — Brit. Mus.) ; Naini Tal (Stock. Mus.) ; Eajpootana — Mount Aboo (Calc. Mus.) ; Jodhpoor (Calc. Mus.) ; Sambalpoor (Calc. Mus.) ; Karachi (Calc. Mus.) ; Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist.) ; Karwar (coll. Dist.) ; Coimbatore (Walhouse — Brit. Mus.) ; Neelgiri Hills — Southern Slopes (Hampson— coll. Dist.) ; Shivarai Hills (Bidie & Morris — coll. Dist.). Ceylon (Calc. Mus.).
This is decidedly the most abundant and widely spread species of Pcecilopsaltria in Continental India, to which and Ceylon it appears to be confined. Besides the distinct varieties recorded above, even typical examples vary much in the shape and extent of the chocolate-brown markings to the tegmina.
10. Pcecilopsaltria hampsoni. (Tab. I,, fig. 8, a, }>.)
Pcecilopsaltria Hampsoni, Distant, Ann. it Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xx. p. 226 (1887). S . Head luteous ; front with a number of black linear markings ; vertex with a transverse, narrow, black fascia between the eyes, and with a central black spot containing the ocelli. Pronotum greenishochraceous, the disk with the following black markings :—a central I-shaped spot, on each side of which are some oblique linear markings ; the lateral dilated margins are black, and the anterior margin is narrowly — and the posterior margin broadly— dull reddish ochraceous. Mesonotum greenish-ochraceous, with the following black spots : — four obconical from anterior margin, of which the central two are smallest ; and a large, oblong, discal spot, with a small partly rounded spot on each side of it ; the basal cruciform elevation dull reddish ochraceous. Abdomen above black. Head beneath, with the face black, marked with luteous transverse lines ; sternum somewhat ochraceously pilose ; abdomen beneath black, the segmental margins ochraceous, the anal appendage of the same colour ; legs castaneous, streaked or spotted with piceous and luteous. Eostrum black, the basal portion luteous. Tegmina pale hyaline, with the venation brown, tlie costal membrane greenish, the basal third somewhat opaque, with darker transverse markings and small basal black markings ; a double irregular series of dark brown spots cross the tegmina at about centre, a dark brown fascia at bases of upper apical areas, a few small subapical spots and some small marginal spots of the same colour. Wings brownishochraceous, paler at apex than at base and very pale across centre, with a white marginal spot near anal angle; the venation brown.
The rostrum reaches the basal abdominal segment ; the lateral margins of the pronotum are distinctly angulatcd ; the face is robustly gibbous, with a profound central longitudinal sulcation ; the posterior tibijE have three distinct spines on each side of apical half. Long. excl. tegm. 2 . 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 70 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 13 millim. Hab. — Continental India : Neelgiri Hills, northern slopes, 3500 & 5000 feet (Hampson — coll. Dist.). "We are indebted to the exertions of Mr. G. F. Hampson for the discovery of this very interesting species. It was first captured in the month of May, and although a fair series of specimens were collected, they all belonged to the female sex, and the male is consequently still desiderated.
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