144 LIST OF HOMOPTEPvOUS INSECTS. 



Stripes; face very slijrhtly convex, not at all prominent, adorned 

 above with a broad black band ; I'urrows in front blackish : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching^ the hind-hips : eyes rather promi- 

 nent: feelers black : fore-chestnarrower before than behind ; furrows 

 of the scutcheon blackish ; hind-scutcheon n;reen, adorned with four 

 black spots, two of these are on the fore border, and one nearer each 

 side and close to the hind border ; sides yellow, slightly angular, 

 excavated towards the fore border: scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with three very indistinct slightly ferruginous obconical 

 stripes, a pitchy stripe runs along part of the outer side of each of 

 the inner pair which are much shorter than the outer pair, the latter 

 contain some indistinct pitchy marks ; hind border slightly exca- 

 vated: abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest: opercula 

 small, partly covering the tymbals which are whitish ; drums pale 

 tawny, tinged with green, black at the base, small, widely apart: 

 legs tawny, tinged with green ; fore-thighs armed with a long black 

 tooth: wings colourless; fore border green as far as the brand, 

 pitchy from thence till near the tip ; veins green, black towards the 

 tips. Length of the body lOi^ lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



a. St. Lucia. Presented by W. Muter, Esq. 



82. Cicada Pronoe, Mas. 



Nervus tranxveraus Itw subundalus, obligiius, anguhnn valde oh- 

 tusum Jingens, 2o plus triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subundatus, ralde obliquus, angulum perobtusumfiiigens, \o 

 multb lougior ; ^us subundatus oblifjuiis, angulum rectum 

 fingens ; 4 us valde imd at us, angulum vix aculum fingens, 3o 

 longior et obliqu'wr. 



Second marginal areolet full five-sixths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein slightly waved, slanting, forming a very ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by much move than thrice its 

 length ; second slightly Avaved, very slanting, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, much longer than the first ; third very slightly waved, 

 slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth much waved, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, more slanting and much h)nger than the third ; 

 fifth curved, almost u])right, forming a hardly acute ani^le. Body 

 tawny, short, broad: head and fore-chest ferruginous: head nearly 

 as broad as the fore-chest, pitchy about the eyelets ; fiice very con- 

 vex, not prominent : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching iicarly 

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

 hind-scutcheon of the fore-chest tawny, very broad, forming a very 

 obtuse angle above the base of the fore-wing, slightly indented on 



