2 Journal New York Entomological Society. tVoi. xxiii. 



nearly all first described under Cicada, we have here used that name, 

 as any change is unnecessary for the object of this paper. 



Cicada auletes Germar. 



Cicada grossa Fabricius ? 



For a good life-sized figure of this species see Howard's " Insect 

 Book," Plate XXVIII, fig. 19, where it bears the name of C. marginata 

 Say. Smith and Grossbeck figure the genitalia of this species also 

 under the name of C. marginata in their " Studies in Certain Cicada 

 Species," Entomological News, April, 1907. 



In Entomological News for March, 1905, Prof. Uhler has this to 

 say of Cicada grossa: "This species has recently been brought to light 

 in the British Museum, where, through the courtesy of Dr, G. R. 

 Waterhouse, I was permitted to examine the types of Fabricius in 

 the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. They proved to be two specimens 

 of the large form of which I have specimens from North Carolina, 

 Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, New York City, Northern New Jersey, 

 Maryland and Virginia. . . . Variations in size, color and pattern of 

 markings are, perhaps, responsible for the exaggerated synonymy 

 which has accumulated upon this species.'' 



Among the synonyms of C. grossa he places Cicada marginata 

 Say (1825), Cicada aulctcs Germar (1834), and a number of species 

 described by Walker in 1850. 



The original description of C. grossa by Fabricius in 1775 is very 

 general and would do for many of the large cicadas. He says, how- 

 ever, that the tarsi are black. In our insect they are olive green. 

 He also gives the habitat as Brazil, but as Uhler says, this may be an 

 error. 



The next name on the list is Cicada auletes Germar, and there is 

 no doubt about this being our species. He says the insect lives in 

 Pennsylvania and he refers to the figure of the " great Indian Cicada " 

 in the work of August Johann Rosel, " De Natuurlyke Historie der 

 Insecten," Tab. XXV, fig. 5, where is shown a species a little over 

 three inches in length. This of course is not our American insect 

 but ours in size approaches it. Germar describes the pruinose condi- 

 tion of the insect, also its black and olive coloring, including the legs 

 which he says are olivaceous. Of the operculum he says that it is 

 "large, reaching middle of abdomen, oblong, with the sides sub- 

 sinuate, apex obtusely rounded, olivaceous." 



