130 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



ceeded by a brown cross ; the outer pair longer but irregular ; hind 

 border very slightly excavated : abdomen elliptical, a little broader 

 and longer than the chest : opercula large, tawny, partly pitchy ; 

 drums tawny, large, not tar apart, rather less than half the length 

 of the abdomen : legs pale tawny ; tips of the shanks and of the 

 claws black; fore-feet and middle-feet blackish with tawny bands ; 

 fore thighs armed with two tawny teeth whose lips are black, of 

 these one is stout, the other oblique and more slender : wings colour- 

 less, adorned with delicate blue lustre, tawny along the fore border; 

 veins pale tawny, tinged with green, darker towards the tips ; first 

 and second cross-veins tinged with pale brown ; three indistinct 

 brown dots near the tip, the indications of a row of spots along the 

 hind border ; fore-flaps pale brown ; hind-flaps pale tawny at the 

 base and for a short space along the hind border. Length of the 

 body 11 lines ; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



68. Cicada seericosta ? 

 Cicada serricosta ? Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 62, 18. Mas et Fem. 



Nenma transversus lus suhcurvus, obliquus, an(/ulum obtuxum ftn- 

 gens, 2o quadruplo ejus longitudlne divisus ; 2us curviis, ob- 

 liquus, angulum obtusuni jftngens, li longitudine ; ^us sub- 

 curvus^ obliquus, angulum subrectum Jingens ; 4iis subundatiis, 

 angulum acutum Jingens, 'So longior et obliquior. 



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

 first: first cross-vein verv slightly curved, slanting, forming an ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by full four times its length ; 

 second curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, as long as the 

 first; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming a nearly right 

 angle ; fourth very slightly waved, forming an acute angle, longer 

 and more slanting than the third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, form- 

 ing a slightly acute angle. 



Male.— Body tawny, tinged vvith green : head nearly as broad 

 as the fore-chest ; a black interrupted band across the crown and be- 

 tween the eyelets ; face convex, adorned in front with two black 

 stripes which send forth black bands on each side : mouth tawny 

 with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : feelers 

 black : furrows of the scutcheon of the fore-chest blackish ; hind- 

 scutcheon slightly widened and forming an obtuse angle at the base 

 of each fore-wing, nearly straight and beset with short black bristles 

 on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four marks ; 



