LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



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anovular above the base of each fore-wint^, not iiiclented on each siflc' 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with indistinct traces of f'er- 

 ruijinous stripes ; hind border moderately excavated : abdomen ob- 

 conical, hardly longer than the chest : opercula none ; tymbals 

 whitish ; drums pale green, of moderate size, nearly meeting, less 

 than one-third of the length of the abdomen: le^s green, tinged 

 with tawny; feet dark tawny with pitchy tips ; claws dark tawny 

 with black lips ; fore-thighs armed with three tawny teelh, first large, 

 oblique, second small, third very small ; fore-shanks beset beneath 

 with tawny bristles : wings colourless ; tips of the fore-wings tinged 

 with brown ; fore border green, varied with tawny, pitchy beyond 

 the brand, beset with very short spines ; veins black, green towards 

 the base of the fore-wings, tawny towards the base of ihe hind-wings; 

 primitive areolet tawny ; fore-flaps ferruginous ; hind-flaps ferrugi- 

 nous at the base and for a short space along the hind border and 

 along the borders of the veins. Length of the body 10 lines ; of 

 the wings 35 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Reginald Graham, Esq. 



75. Cicada Orxea, M.ss. 



Nervus Iransversns \tis siibcurvus, suboblifjuus, anguium suhohtu- 

 sum fingena, '2o quinquies ejus hmgitudine divisun ; 2us suh- 

 currus, obliqmis, anguium valde obtiisumjingens, lo longior ; 

 'Sus subcurvus, subobliquus, anguium rectum fingens ; 4ijs 

 uudalus, valde obliqmis, anguium acutum fingens, oo plus 

 duplb longior. 



Second marginal areolet nmch less than two-thirds of the length 

 of the first: first cross-vein slightly curved, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly obtuse angle, parted from the second by five times its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 aniilc, Ijnger than the first ; third very slightly curved, slightly 

 slanting, forming a right angle; fourth waved, very slanting, fovm- 

 ing an acute angle, more than twice the length of the third ; fifth 

 curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black : 

 head a little narrower than the fore-chest, adorned on the hind bor- 

 der with a middle tawny triangular mark and with a forked mark on 

 each side ; on each side in front are two tawny marks and between 

 at the base of the feelers a green mark; face convex, adorned with 

 tawny bands on each side: mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching 

 the hind-hips : eyes rather prominent : feelers black, partly ferrugi- 

 nous : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned on each side with two 

 broad tawny stripes which are irregular in outline and partly exca- 



