HOMOPTERA. 



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Female. Ferragiuous, clothed Lere and there with pale shining 

 tomentum. Head blackish about the ocelli ; front with a testaceous stripe. 

 Prothorax with a black stripe, which is dilated in front and behind ; 

 two black streaks on each side ; border with the sides slightly concave in 

 the middle, dilated hindward. Mesothorax with four broad black obconi- 

 cal stripes ; the outer pair much excavated. Abdomen somewhat at- 

 tenuated towards the tip, with five stripes of pale shining tomentum, the 

 middle one and the outer pair macular. Wings vitreous ; veins tawny. 

 Fore wings with the transverse veins and the forks of the longitudinal veins 

 clouded with brown ; a brown dot on the hind side of the third discoidal 

 areolet, and indications of two transverse veins which join it to the filth 

 transverse vein and to the base of the second discoidal areolet; a brown 

 streak near the tip of each marginal vein, and a brown dot on each 

 of most of the marginal transverse veinleis ; a very slight brown streak 

 near the tip of each marginal areolet ; first transverse vein curved, almost 

 upright, parted by more than four times its length from the second, which 

 is oblique; third straight, less oblique and much shorter than the fourth, 

 which is curved. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



Cicada albicans. 



Atbido-viridis, sericeo pubescens ; caput et prothorax nigra varia ; meso- 

 thorax vittis quatuor nigris, inlerioribus interrnptis, exterioribus 

 excavatis ; abdominis segmenta niyro fasciata ; pedes pallide virides, 

 femoribus nigro vitlalis ; alee vitrece, venis albidis apice nigris ; 

 anlicce venis basi nigro bistrigatis, siigmate ex parte nigro, venis 

 transversis la ad 4am nigro nebulosis. 



Whitish green, with silky pubescence. Head and prothorax varied 

 with black. Mesothorax with four black stripes, the inner pair interrupted 

 by two curved green streaks, the outer pair excavated. Abdomen with 

 black bands. Legs pale green; femora with black stripes. Wings 

 vitreous ; veins whitish, mostly black at the tips. Fore wings with 

 two black streaks on the veins at the base, and with a black mark on the 

 stigma ; veins between the first, second, third and fourth transverse veins 

 mostly black, the latter also black and clouded with black; first nearly 

 upright, parted by thrice or four times its length from the second. 

 Length of the body 8 — 10 lines ; of the wings 24 — 26 lines. 



