128 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



prominent: feelers black : fore-chest narrower before than behind ; 

 hind-scutcheon tawny, moderately broad, rounded and a little 

 widened at the base of each fore-wing-, not excavated on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest tintjed with tawny which is most ap- 

 parent on each side and on the hind border, the latter is very slightly 

 excavated : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest : opercula 

 none ; tymbals hoary ; drums pale tawny, slightly tinged with green, 

 rather widely parted ; legs green ; shanks mostly tawny ; feet tawny ; 

 tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three teeth, first 

 large, tawny and very oblique; second and third black, second small, 

 third very small ; fore-shanks beset beneath with tawny bristles ; 

 fore-feet dark tawny : wings colourless ; tips of the fore-wings slight- 

 ly tinged with brown ; fore border beset with very short black spines, 

 green, partly tawny, pitchy beyond the brand ; veins tawny varied 

 with green, black towards the lips, pale yellow towards the base of 

 the hind-wings ; primitive areolet mostly tawny ; fore-flaps pale gray- 

 ish brown ; hind-flaps tinged at the base with pale grayish brown. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 38 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



QQ. Cicada Melina, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus sitbcurvus, suhohliquus, angulum obtusum 

 jingens, 2o pi la; sex ties ejus hngitudine divisus ; 2us subcur- 

 VM9, oblirpius, angulum valde obtusum Jingens, lo multb lon- 

 gior ; Sus subun latus, obliquits, angulum fere rectum Jingens ; 

 Aus subcurvus, obliquus^ angulum fere rectum jingens^ 3i lon- 

 gifudine. 



Second marginal areolet full two-thirds of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein slightly curved, slightly oblique, forming an 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than six times its 

 length ; second slightly curved, oblique, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, much longer than the first ; third very slightly waved, oblique, 

 forming an almost right angle ; fourth very slightly curved, oblique, 

 forming an almost right angle, as long as the third : fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body pale tawny, 

 rather broad, tinged with green : head short, broad, hardly narrower 

 than the fore-chest, adorned with two black bands ; one on the crown, 

 interrupted, longer than the other which is on the face ; this is very 

 slightly convex: mouth tawny with a black tip reaching the hind- 

 hips : feelers black : eyes prominent : fore-chest broadest in the 

 middle, widened into a rounded rim on each side, and adorned with 

 a pitchy spot which extends to the fore border ; excavation on the 



