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membranes or flaps at the base of both the fore and hind wings are 

 dark gray in both resonans and similaris, also in lyricen, whereas in 

 what we take to be figurata they are yellowish in color, especially 

 those of the fore wings, with a pinkish tinge. In similaris the 

 uncus when seen in profile is shaped something like the head of a 

 snake with expanded jaws; in what we have identified as i-esonans, 

 the uncus when viewed in profile is broad at the tip and shaped some- 

 what like a horse's hoof, and when viewed from the back the ex- 

 tremity is broad and truncated and not notched. In what we con- 

 sider figurata the uncus is simple. When it is seen in profile it is 

 scoop-shaped, and from behind it is obtusely rounded with the ex- 

 tremity not as broad as in Cicada lyricen which it somewhat re- 

 sembles. We formerly expressed the opinion (this Journal, March, 

 1 91 5, p. 8) that Cicada figurata might be either Cicada lyricen or 

 Cicada similaris, but since we have seen the male from Louisiana 

 referred to above and which we figure, we think that Walker's species 

 has been rediscovered. Mr. Charles Schaeffer, of the Brooklyn Mu- 

 seum, has had, for some time, the female belonging to that institution 

 set aside as a distinct species. 



Cicada aurifera Say. 



Thomas Say described this species in 1825, but recent authors 

 have failed to identify it. Say says in part: "Body covered with 

 golden pubescence ; beneath hairy. Inhabits Missouri . . . the two 

 particular anastomoses are strongly marked with blackish . . . thorax 

 but little varied with black : scutel [mesonotum] black, with the 

 usual testaceous lines : tergum black, densely covered with golden 

 hair: beneath pruinose. Length one inch and a half nearly to the 

 tip of the hemelytra. Found near the Konza village." 



When Smith and Grossbeck wrote their paper " Studies in Certain 

 Cicada Species," published in Entomological News, for April, 1907, 

 they examined the specimens in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum at Washington and noted on a label placed below two females 

 from Kansas, " New Species." From lack of material they refrained 

 from describing the insect which is here identified as Cicada aurifera. 

 In 1914 the writer received a male of this species from Mr. J. C. 

 Warren of Wakefield, Kansas, and more recently he has had the 

 privilege through the courtesy of Prof. S, J. Hunter and Mr. R. H. 

 Beamer of examining forty-nine additional specimens from the col- 



