March, I9I5-] DaVIS : NOTES ON CiCADAS. 5 



Kentucky, Aug. 28, 1902, male (Chas. Dury). 



Wakefield, Clay Co., Kansas, male and female (J. C. Warren). 



Chetopa, Labette Co., Kansas, July, i male, 3 females ; Aug., 6 

 males, 4 females (D. R. Beardslee). 



In the collection of the INIuseum of Comparative Zoology there are 

 two females from Texas and a male marked "Florida (Miss 

 Willard)." 



Walker in his List of Homoptera, Vol. IV, p. 1128, 1852, changes 

 Say's marginata to Cicada marginalis " to distinguish it from C. 

 marginofa Olivier." This last is now Ariasa marginata Oliv. accord- 

 ing to Distant. It is a Brazilian species. 



Cicada resh Haldeman. 



This species was described from the Great Salt Lake Valley by 

 Prof. S. S. Haldeman in the appendix to the report on the Exploration 

 and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Wash- 

 ington, 1853. 



In the author's collection there are seventy-six specimens identified 

 as this species. They are from Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma and 

 are like in markings the specimen figured by Haldeman on Plate IX 

 of the report referred to. In fresh specimens the pronotum is green 

 with the " narrow Y-shaped line divided to the base, a narrow trans- 

 verse lateral spot on each side posteriorly and another anteriorly, 

 immediately behind the lateral stemmata. Mesonotum black, with a 

 large lateral elongated yellow spot [green in fresh specimens], and a 

 pair of similarly colored medial spots in the shape of the Hebrew 

 letter resh inverted, and the points converging anteriorly upon the 

 medial line." The usual W-shaped mark is present on the fore wings. 

 In the male the supra-anal plate ends in three points as in auletes, 

 but the central one is not as long and prominent as in that species. 

 The uncus when viewed in profile is broadened and rounded at the 

 extremity, and when viewed at full face the end is shallowly notched, 

 but not as deeply as in auletes. 



Haldeman gives " length of the body fourteen, to the end of the 

 upper wings twenty-two lines, width of the prothorax seven lines." 

 Most of the specimens in the author's collection are a trifle over these 

 measurements, but they are from further south than the type locality. 



Marksville, Avoyelles Co., La., Sept. 15, 1912, i male and i female. 



