LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 103 



flaps tawny at the base, sli<:;lu]Y clouded with bnnvn aloiif^ the fove 

 border. Length of the body 23 lines; of the wings 68 lines. 



a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



2. Cicada triupsilon, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus. valde obliqnus, angulum perob- 

 tusum finge7is, 2o fere quinquies ejus longitudine divisus ; 

 2us subcurvus, angulum perobtusum jingens, \o Innr/io?' et 

 obliquior ; 3us subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum rectum fin- 

 gens ; Aus subundatus, obliquus, angulum subacuium fingens, 

 3o multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slanting, forming 

 an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second hy nearly five times 

 its length ; second very slightly curved, forming an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, longer and more slanting than the first ; third very slightly 

 curved, slightly slanting, forming a richt an^le; fourth slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than 

 the third ; fifth curved, nearly ui)right, forming an acute angle. 

 Body ferruginous : head a little narrower than the fore-chest ; crown 

 adorned with an irregular black band ; hind border black ; face con- 

 vex, rather prominent, Idackish above and on each side in front: 

 mouth ferruginous with a black tip, extending to the hind-hips : 

 eyes not prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest black 

 along the border and on the furrows ; hind-scutcheon finely fur- 

 rowed, much widened on each side and forming a very obtuse black 

 angle whose fore side is very slightly concave and its hind side 

 equally convex : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with seven 

 black stripes; the three on each side slightly curved, almost concen- 

 tric ; the mi(Ulle pair widened in front and united behind ; hind 

 border rather deeply excavated : abdomen nearly oval, longer than 

 the chest, clothed with silky yellow down, paler beneath ; most of 

 the segments adorned with a l)lack baud along the fore border: oper- 

 cula none ; tymbals whitish with pitchy marks; drimis tawny, small, 

 far apart : legs dark tawny ; thighs streaked with black ; fore-feet, 

 middle-feet and tips of the shanks l)lack ; fore-thighs armed with 

 three tawny teeth, whose tips are black, of these two are long and 

 one is short : wings colourless, tawny and partly bhiek at the base, 

 ferruginous along the fore l)order, slightly tinged with brnvvn at the 

 lips ; first and second cioss-veins clouded with dark brown, of which 

 there is a slight tinge at the fore end of the third ; veins black ; flaps 



