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32. Sphenoehina rubicunda. 



Rufo-fulva; pectus piceo fasciatvm ; abdominis latera ad apicem, 

 tibice anteriores tarsique picea ; alee anticce rufce^ basi lutea. 



Reddish tawny, shining : head impressed above, much narrower 

 than the chest, straight along the hind border, forming a slightly 

 obtuse angle in front, broader than long ; face convex, prominent, 

 smooth, hardly compressed, slightly keeled, forming a right angle in 

 front where the keel is divided ; epistoma tawny, keeled : mouth 

 pitchy, ferruginous towards the base : feelers pitchy, with pale tips : 

 chest roughly punctured : a pitchy stripe across the breast between 

 the fore-hips and the middle-hips : abdomen pitchy on each side 

 towards the tip : feet and anterior shanks pitchy : fore-wings bright 

 red, partly luteous towards the base, almost elliptical, hardly nar- 

 rower towards the tips : hind-wings pale gray, slightly tinged with 

 brown at the base, at the tips and along the hind border ; veins 

 black, red at the base. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 

 6 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius's collection. 



Subtribe 5. APHEOPHORIDES. 



Aphropho.ides, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 563. 



Genus 1. APHROPHORA. 



Aphrophora, Germar, Leon Dvf., Burm., Ramb., Blanch.^ Amyot et 



Serv. 

 Cicada, p., Linn., Deg., Geojfr. 

 Cercopis, p., Fabr., Panz., Geinn., Fall. 

 Tettigonia, p. Tign., Oliv., Curt. 



I. Aphrophora spumaria. 



Aphrophora spumaria, Germ. Mag. JEnt. iv. 50, 1. Burm. Handb. 



Ent. ii. 7, 121, 1. Duf. Rech. Hem. 105, 1. Ramb. Faun. 



And. ii, 205. Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. 189, 2, pi. 14, f. 5. 



Amyot et Serv. Hist. Hem. 566, 1. 

 Cicada spumaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. 708, 24. Faun. Suec. 881. 



Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 4, 2109, 146. 



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