136 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



der ami much interrupted band; face slightly convex, adorned on 

 the hind border with a broad black indented band : mouth tawny 

 with a black tip, reaching a little beyond the hind-hips: feelers 

 black : eyes hardly prominent : fore-chest narrower in front than be- 

 hind ; scutcheon adorned with an interrupted black band along the 

 fore border; hind-scutcheon green, slightly concave on ihe hind 

 border, rounded and a little widened above the base of each fore- 

 wing, beset with short spines but not excavated on each side : scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest adorned with four large obconical ferru- 

 ginous stripes, the outer pair twice the length of the inner pair whose 

 borders are partly pitchy ; excavation of the hind border moderately 

 deep : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, somewhat 

 ferruginous, especially towards the tip ; opercula very small, narrow, 

 angular ; tymbals tawny ; drums small, tawny, their disks green : 

 legs tawny, tinged with green ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore- 

 thighs striped beneath with black, armed with two ferruginous teeth, 

 the first very oblique : wings colourless; fore border tawny as far as 

 the brand which is pitchy ; veins tawny, black towards the tips. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 35 lines. 

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74. Cicada Braure, Mas. 



Nervus transrersus lus stibciirvus, fere erectus, angulum obtustim 

 jingens, '2o plus quinquies ejus lonyitudine divisxis ; 2us suh- 

 curvus, valde obliquus, angulum pcroblusnm Jinyens^ lo paullo 

 longior ; 'ius subundatus, obliqmis, angulum subacuium fiji- 

 gens ; 'So paiilld toiigior. 



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

 the first : first cross-vein very slightly curved, nearly upright, form- 

 ing an obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than five times 

 its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, a little longer than the first; third very slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth very slightly 

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

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

 Body green, tinged with lawny, partly clothed with shining pale 

 yellow down : head as broad as the fore-chest, adorned with a pitchy 

 stripe which passes between the eyelets : face slightly convex, adorned 

 with a pitchy band : mouth tawny with a black tip, extending just 

 beyond the hind-hips : feelers black, tawny at the base : eyes pro- 

 minent : hind-scutcheon of the fore-chest rather narrow in the 

 middle, slightly concave on the hind border, widened and almost 



