March, 19-' 1.) DaVIS : RECORDS OF XoRTH A.MKRICAN CiCADAS. 5 



from a Hijht brown with darker marks, particularly on the head and 

 mesonotum, to very pale, almost unicolorous individuals from Utah. 

 The following belonpf to the variety : Palomas, Arizona. August 8, 

 1917. two males (Dr. H. H. Knight); Yuma, .\rizona. July 5. 1918, 

 male and female ( .\. M. Gaudin) ; Yuma. California, August, female 

 (Prof. H. F. W'ickham) ; Riverside Co.. California, female (E. R. 

 Leach); Needles. California. August 3-4. 1919, eight males (Rehn 

 and Hehard) ; Washington Co.. Utah, male and "'Utah." male, both 

 without date. In the Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, there 

 is a female, collected at light. Yuma. Arizona. July jS, 1907 (Rehn 

 and Hehard). 



In Howard's Insect Hook, plate j8. figure i.v ^ female Tibiccn 

 apache is figured under the name of Cicada ~'itripciniis. 



Tibicen transversa (Walker). PI. II, fig. i. 



This species was described from Vera Cruz. Mexico, by Francis 

 Walker in Insecta Saundersiana. 1858. and was later figured by Mr. 

 Distant in Hiologia Centrali-Aniericana. Homoptera. plate 2. figure 

 I. In this figure the first and second transverse veins of the fore 

 wing are not as clouded as in the two specimens. I have examined, 

 or as called for by Walker, who says: " I'ore wings with the first 

 and second transverse veins clouded with brown." Mr. Distant, how- 

 ever, in the te.xt says: " Opercula long, triangular, reaching the ba.se 

 of the fourth abdominal segment, .-\pices of the opercula obtuse; 

 tegmina spotted with fuscous near the apex." Uhler. in the Trans- 

 actions. .Maryland Academy of .Science, i. p. 155. 1892. states of 

 Cicada Iransfcrsa : "The type came from Mexico. I have examined 

 a specimen from Te.xas. ' In the list of Coleoptera. Lepidoptera, 

 Dijjtera and Hemiptera collected in .Arizona by the Fntomological 

 Expeditions of the University of Kansas in 1902 and 1903. Kansas 

 University Science P.ulletin, volume 2. number 12, May, 1904. Prof. 

 F. H. .Snow records Cicada tran.<rfcrsa from two localities in south- 

 western .\rizona. collected in 1903. We have examined some of 

 these specimens and they are what is described in this pajjer as 

 Tibiccn apache. 



The following specimens of traiis7'crsa have been examined: 

 Padre Island. Texas, .\ugust 2^^. igi;. male. Collection Univer- 

 ■^ity f)f Michigan, and examined through the courtesy of Prof. 1'. M. 

 ' »aige. This sjjecimen is figured. 



