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Cicada figurata Walker. 



This species was described in 1858 in List of the Specimens of 

 Homopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum, Sup- 

 plement, p. 19. Unfortunately no locality was given. The descrip- 

 tion in part is as follows : " Black, mostly tawny beneath. Head with 

 a large tawny spot on each side in front between the eyes. . . . Pro- 

 thorax reddish, black in front and behind, with a double tawny stripe ; 

 border tawny, with a black streak on each side. Mesothorax with 

 four oblique tawny stripes; the middle pair recurved inward; the 

 lateral pair enclosed at each of their tips by a lateral tawny streak; 

 sides and hind ridges tawny. Legs tawny. Wings vitreous. Fore 

 wings narrow, much acuminated testaceous at the base, and with a 

 testaceous streak along the sixth discoidal areolet ; primitive areolet 

 black; veins piceous; costa testaceous to the tip of the front areolet; 

 first and second transverse veins slightly curved, clouded with black. 

 . . . Length of the body 17 lines; of the wings [expanse] 44 lines." 



As far as the writer is aware the insect has not been recognized 

 since it was described and the name has been placed as a synonym of 

 Cicada auletes or grossa by Distant and of Cicada marginata by 

 Uhler. Lately seven specimens have been examined that are well cov- 

 ered by the above description. They are as follows : 



Logansport, DeSoto Co., Louisiana, August 1905, male. (Re- 

 ceived from W. Dwight Pierce.) Coll. U. S. National Museum. 



Verda, Grant Co., Louisiana, July, 191 5, male. (Received from 

 Prof. R. W. Harned.) Coll. Agri. College, Miss. 



Alabama, female. Coll. Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences. 



Mobile, Alabama, female (H. P. Loding). Davis collection. 



Mississippi, female. (Received from Prof. R. W. Harned.) 

 Coll. Agri. College, Miss. 



Meridian, Lauderdale Co., Miss., Sept. 10, 191 5, female. (Rehn 

 & Hebard). Davis collection. 



Gainesville, Florida 1915, male. (J. R. Watson.) Davis collec- 

 tion. 



All of the above mentioned are dull, tawny colored insects, with 

 narrow and much acuminated fore wings with the primitive aerolet 

 black. In the considerable number of specimens that we have of 

 Cicada resonans and Cicada similaris, the fore wings are not as 

 acuminate, and the primitive or basal aerolet is not black. The 



