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Mexico, May lo, 1902. Other material examined has been as 

 follows : 



Southern California. A female in the U. S. Nat. Museum bears 

 the label "Southern Cal. (not Lower Cal.)." 



" Texas." A rather small male and female. Coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



Mar fa, Tex. June 5, 1908, male and female (Mitchell and Cush- 

 man). Coll. U. S. Nat. Museum. 



Marathon, Tex. June 7, 1908, female (Mitchell and Cushman). 

 Coll. U. S. Nat. Museum. 



In Utah, Colorado and Kansas there is another cicada that greatly 

 resembles townsendi, but is a little smaller and has a very differently 

 shaped uncus. It may be described as follows : 



Cicada bifida new species. 



Type male. Clear Creek, Colorado, July 23, 1914. Davis collection. 



Allotype female, St. George, Washington Co., Utah (Engelhardt 

 and Doll). Davis collection. 



A black and yellow green colored species ; fresh specimens conspicuously 

 pruinose. 



Head black, with the following yellowish tinged with green : a spot above 

 the base of each antenna, a central triangular spot in front of the ocelli, an 

 irregular spot of a little lighter color on each side near the eye and con- 

 tiguous to the hind border, and a small spot on the front above the transverse 

 rugae. Pronotum yellowish green with a large central black spot which is 

 broadened near the front margin, and to a very much less extent on the 

 hind margin where it extends on to the collar. In some of the paratypes this 

 black spot contains one of a yellowish green color. On either side the grooves 

 are blackened, and the hind margin or collar is blackened in the center, as 

 mentioned above, and has a black spot each side at the humeral angles. Meso- 

 notum black with the central W-shaped mark near the front margin yellowish 

 green in color; behind this is the elevated x also yellowish green and with 

 the anterior marks extending well forward and nearly touching the W-mark. 

 The sides near the base of the fore wings are also yellowish green. Tergum 

 black with an indication of a dorsal row of pruinose spots faintly defined ; 

 sides of the abdomen irregularly bordered with yellowish green, the last seg- 

 ment being nearly all of that color except the central area which is darkened. 

 The fore wings have the costal margins yellowish green nearly to the extremi- 

 ties of the wings and the subcostal veins are blackened ; the first and second 

 cross veins are darkened, but not conspicuously so. The basal areola of each 

 fore wing contains a short darkened dash of color, otherwise they are nearly 

 clear ; the flaps of both the fore and hind wings are grayish white. Beneath 



