142 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



angle. Body black, short and broad, tawny beneath : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with a red spot on each side 

 of the hind border, and with another on each side of the face ; the 

 latter slightly convex, not at all prominent, adorned in front with 

 red ridges : feelers black : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching 

 the hind-hips : eyes rather prominent : fore-chest a little narrower in 

 front than behind ; scutcheon adorned with a dark red spot on the 

 fore side of each inner furrow ; hind-scutcheon tawny, very slightly 

 rounded and forming an obtuse angle and adorned with a black spot 

 near the base of each fore-wing : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with two slender slightly oblique tawny stripes ; sides and 

 hind border tawny, the latter very slightly excavated : cross-ridge 

 tawny with the exception of a black spot on its disk : abdomen ob- 

 conical, very little longer than the chest ; tip and hind borders of 

 the segments dark red : opercula none ; tyrabals hoary ; drums small, 

 dark tawny, very little apart: legs tawny ; thighs adorned with pitchy 

 streaks ; leet ferruginous ; claws black, ferruginous at the base ; fore- 

 thighs adorned with two ferruginous teeth, one of moderate size, the 

 other very small ; hind-shanks beset with ferruginous spines ; wings 

 colourless ; an indistinct tawny tinge at the lip of each fore-wing ; 

 veins tawny, black towards the tips ; fore border tawny, pitchy from 

 the brand towards the tip ; fore-membrane pale tawny ; flaps pale 

 brown at the base and along part of the hind border. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 21 lines. 



80. Cicada semicincta, Mas. 



Nervus transversus Ins sttbcwvus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum 

 Jingens, 2o plus quadruplb ejus longitucline divisus ; 2us fere 

 rectus, obliqims, angnhtm valde obtusum Jin gens, \o multo 

 longior ; 3u* vix widatus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum 

 fingens ; Aus vix undatus, subobliquus, angulum vix acutum 

 Jingens, 3o longior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly three-fourths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slightly slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than 

 four times its length ; second nearly straight, slanting, forming a 

 very obtuse angle, very much longer than the first ; third hardly 

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

 hardly waved, slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, longer 

 than the third; fifth slightly curved, upright, forming a hardly ob- 

 tuse ande. Head waniiu"- : fore-chest dark red, not narrower in 



