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black above, adorned in front with two black stripes which send forth 

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

 the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers tawny, pitchy at the base : 

 fore-chest rather short, narrower before than behind : scutcheon 

 adorned in the middle with two pitchy stripes which are widened l>e- 

 fore and behind ; furrows dark tawny ; hind-scutcheon rather narrow, 

 much widened at the base of each fore-wing, very slightly excava- 

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

 ldrji;e obconical pitchy stripes ; outer pair much longer than the inner 

 pair, mostly feiruginous towards the tips ; inner pair exceptint^ the 

 base bordered with pale tawny which forms a double U figure ; sides 

 and hind border tawny, the latter slightly excavated : abdomen pitchy, 

 obconical, shorter than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny ; last segment adorned with a tawny middle stripe and with 

 two forked tawny side stripes : oviduct pitchy : legs tawny ; thighs 

 f^treaked with brown ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at the base ; 

 fore-thighs armed with two long pitchy teeth ; fore-shanks dark 

 tawny, rather hairy : wings colourless ; veins tawny, marked with 

 black at the base, black towards the tips ; fore border tawny as far 

 as the brand, pitchy from thence till near the tip ; primitive areolet 

 buff; fore-membrane grayish ; flaps buff towards the base. Length 

 of the body 9 lines; of the wings 28 lines. 



a. British Guiana. Presented bv Sir R. Schoraburghk. 



77. Cicada Cita, Fern. 



Nervus trajisversus lus suhcurvns, obliguus, nngidum valde obt it- 

 sum fingem, 2o quadruplb ejus longitudine divism ; 2us siib- 

 curi'us, oblifjuus, aiH)ulum obtusum fingens, \o brevior ; Siis 

 fere rectvs, obliquus, angulum vix acutum fiugens ; Aus 

 subundatus, obliquiis angulum subacutum Jingens^ 3o multb 

 long i or. 



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

 first: first cross-vein slightly curved, slantiny, forming a very ob- 

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

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, shorter 

 than the first; third nearly straight, slanting, forming a hardly acute 

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

 angle, much longer than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming 

 a right angle. Body tawny, rather short and broad : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest; face convex, not prominent, adorned 

 with a short bhick stripe ; an irregular black stripe across thecrovyn: 

 mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching a short distance beyond the 



