﻿640. 

 EUPTERYX ORNATIPENNIS. 



Order Homoptera. Fam. Tettigonidae. 



Type of the Genus, Cicada picta Fah. 

 EuFTERYX Curt. — Typhlocyba Germ. — Cicada Fab. 



Antennce inserted in cavities under the forehead, near the eyes, 

 almost as long as the head and thorax, very slender, triarticu- 

 late, 2 basal joints stout, 1st cup-shaped, 2nd oval, 3rd a very 

 long seta thickened at the base (4) . 



Labrum elongate -ovate, truncated at the base, with a narrow 

 lanceolate lobe at the apex (3). 

 Mandibles and Maxilla like bristles. 



Labium short, stout, triarticulate, basal joint rather the longest, 

 2nd subquadrate, 3rd longer, pubescent and ovate at the apex (2.) 

 Head scarcely so broad as the thorax, crown lunate, face very long 

 somewhat ovate (1,1* the profile) : eyes small, prominent and form- 

 ing the posterior angles of the head : ocelli none. Thorax somewhat 

 lunate, the sides rounded: scutel trigonate-cuspidate . Abdomen 

 slender elongate-trigonate : ovipositor long and stout, the sheaths 

 ciliated with hairs. Elytra twice as long as the body, narrow, ellip- 

 tical, with a few longitudinal nervures, 4 cells at the apex (9) .- wings 

 nearly as long as the elytra and broader, with 3 apical cells, formed 

 by nervures which unite with the external one (*) . Legs very slender, 

 anterior short, hinder very long : thighs short and slender : tibiae, 

 anterior armed with spines on the inside only and not to the apex (6) ; 

 hinder long, with a double series of spiny bristles on the outside : 

 tarsi moderately long and triarticulate, basal joint short, 2nd the 

 longest in the anterior, first the longest in the posterior : claws and 

 pulvilli small (6, afore leg). 



Ornatifennis Curt. Guide, Gen. 1053. 11. 



Very pale yellow ; base of head and thorax brown, the latter 

 with 3 large yellow spots ; scutel brown, with a yeUow spot at 

 each angle : abdomen banded and spotted with black, the apex 

 pale brown : elytra reddish down the middle, brown at the 

 base, 2 large hyaline spots on the costa, separated by a dark 

 brown one ; the transverse nervure dark and a dot near the 

 apex black : wings iridescent. Obs. ITiere is a yellow variety 

 with the apex of the elytra only brown, and no markings, ex- 

 cept 2 dark transverse nervures on the costa, and the apical dot. 



In the Author's Cabinet. 



I DEFINED the group before us and named it Eupteryx in the 

 1st Vol. of the Ent. Mag., and about the same time I under- 

 stand Germar gave it another name. Having paid consider- 

 able attention to this order I am able to give the following 

 species as British. 



