108 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



crown adorned with an irregular and angular black band which in- 

 cludes two tawny spots ; face very convex, adorned with two black 

 stripes on each side of whicli there is a row of little black bands : eyes 

 very prominent : month tawny withal<lack tip, reaching beyond the 

 middle-hips : borders and furrows of the scutcheon of the fore-chest 

 mostly black ; hind-scutcheon broad, widened, slightly angular and 

 partly edged with black on each side : middle-chest adorned with 

 some slender black streaks and with a broader stripe whose tip is 

 widened into a short band ; hind border rather deeply excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, longer than the chest ; lore borders of the seg- 

 ments sometimes black ; drums small : legs tawny ; fore-feet and 

 tips of the shanks black ; a black si)Ot near the tip of each thigh ; 

 fore-thighs armed with three teeth, of which two are large and one 

 is small": wings colourless, their tips very slightly tinged with brown ; 

 veins black, tawny towards the base : "first and second cross-veins 

 clouded with brown. Length of the body 18—23 lines; of the 

 wings 52 — 57 lines. 

 a — d. ? Presented bv Sir E. Belcher. 



9. Cicada sodalis, Mas. 



Nervus transversiis Ins suhcurvus, valde obliquus, angulnm perob- 

 tusum fingens. 2o fere qiiadruplo ejus longitudine divism ; 

 2us curvus^ valde obliquiis, angulam peroblusum fingens, \o 

 longior ; 3us subcurvus, obliquus^angulum subacutum fingens ; 

 4us curvus obliquus, angulum subaciUum Jingens, 3o longior. 



Second marginal areolet full five-sixths of the length of the 

 second : first cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by almost four times 

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

 tuse angle, longer than the first ; third slightly curved, slanting, 

 formino- a slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, longer than the third ; fifth curved, nearly up- 

 right, forming a slightly acute angle. Body dark tawny : head a 

 little narrower than the fore-chest, mostly pitchy a1)ove ; face con- 

 vex : eyes very prominent : mouth black, tawny towards the base, 

 reaching nearly to the hind-hips : scutcheon of the fore-chest more 

 or less pitchy ; hind-scutcheon widened, angular and edged with 

 black on each side: disk of the middle-chest black with irregular 

 tawny marks or sometimes quite black ; hind border rather deeply 

 excavated -. abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, pitchy above ; 

 hind borders of the segments more or less tawny : legs tawny ; thighs, 

 lips of the shanks, lore-shanks and fore-feet black ; fore-thighs 



