16 Bev. W. Kirby's Characters of Otiocerus and Anotia. 



appendages or auricles. Circumstances to be met with in none of 

 the present genera of this or the other tribes of the Cicadiada. 

 The absence of the ocelli, which are very visible in Fulgora and 

 Delphai\ and the different composition of the anal apparatus of 

 the sexes, furnish further striking distinctions that satisfactorily 

 establish the claim of Otiocerus to stand per se as a genus. 



I possess no less than eight species, all from Georgia, belong- 

 in o- to this o-enus, which I shall now describe. 



Degeerii. 1. O. rubescens, elytris virescente-punctatis : vasis 

 roseis; apice summo pollinoso-niveo. 



Long. corp. lin, 3% 3. 

 Expans. alar. lin. 10^ 8£. 



Corpus rubrum, supra dilutius. Caput longius rostratum : cari- 

 nis niveis ; superioribus undulatis immaculatis, inferioribus 

 nigro transverse striatulis. Antenna, in nostris speciminibus 

 desunt. Elytra apice dilatata, albida : neuris roseis ; inter- 

 stitiis punctis rotundis nigro- virescentibus irroratis. Elytri 

 summus apex in medio ex pulvere niveus. A he albae : vasis 

 roseis. Pedes pallidi. 



Mas femina minor : stylo ani inflexo, foliolis intus sinubus tri- 

 bus. 



Stollii. 2. O. rufescens, elytris alisque nigricantibus : vasis ro- 

 seis, illis apice macula albida. 



c? 



Long. corp. lin. 3. 

 Expans. alar. lin. 85. 



Corpus pallide rufum. Caput magnum, pallidum. Antenna, sen- 

 sim paulo crassiores, capite breviores, fuscescentes, basi ap- 



pendiculis 



