126 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



an acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth curved, almost 

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body broad, dark tawny : 

 head and fore-chest dull green : head broad, very little narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; face very slightly convex : mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers tawny 

 at the base: fore-chest broadest in the middle ; two very small pitchy 

 dots on the hind border of the scutcheon ; hind scutcheon broad, 

 very convex and beset with short pitchy bristles on each side where 

 it quickly decreases in breadth towards the fore border : some pitchy 

 but very indistinct traces of the usual obconical marks on the scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest ; hind border tinged with green, rather 

 deeply excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; 

 last segment long and narrow like a short tail, adorned with two 

 pitchy slightly curved stripes extending half the length from the 

 base ; horn at the tip ferruginous : oviduct ferruginous: legs tav/y, 

 thighs tinged with green ; feet ferruginous ; claws black, ferrugi- 

 nous towards the base; fore-thighs near the tip armed with a tawny 

 tooth of moderate size : wings colourless : fore border tawny, tinged 

 with green as far as the brand, pitchy from thence towards the tip ; 

 veins tawny, tinged with green in the fore-wings, black towards the 

 tips ; primitive areolet partly tinged with green ; fore-fiaps gray ; 

 hind-wings pale brown at the base. Length of the body 16 lines; 

 of the uiugs 45 lines. 



a, ? Presented bv Sir E. Belcher. 



64. Cicada spimcosta, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus transversus Ins suhenrvus, valde obliquus, angulum perob- 

 iusum fingem, 2o triplb ejus hmgitudine divisus ; '2m snhcur- 

 vus^ valde obliquus angulum perobtusuni fingens, \i Inngitn- 

 dine ; ^us fere rectus, subobliquus, angulum vix acutum 

 Jingens ; 4us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fin- 

 gens, 3o longior. 



Second marginal areolet a little more than three-fourths of the 

 length of the first: first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slant- 

 ing, forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by 

 thrice its length ; second slipfhtly curved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, as long as the first ; third almost straight, 

 slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth almost 

 straight, forming a slightly acute angle, longer and more slanting 

 than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a slightly acute angle. 

 Allied to C. Serricnsta, but has no black on the chest.' 



Male. — Body olive-green, short and broad, partly clothed with 



