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each side ; its hind border sh'ghtly waved : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest pitchy, in which hue the four obconical stripes of a dark fer- 

 ruginous colour may be indistinctly traced ; a broad tawny band 

 along each side ; cross-ridge ferruginous ; hind border rather deeply 

 excavated : abdomen pitchy, obconical, a little longer than the chest; 

 hind borders of the segments ferruginous ; sides and tip mostly 

 tawny : opercula none ; tymbals and drums extremely small : legs 

 tawny ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with three 

 tawny teeth, two of moderate size, one very small : wings colourless ; 

 fore border green in front, black behind until a short distance be- 

 yond the brand where it is wholly black ; veins tawny, black towards 

 the tips and along most of the fore border ; primitive areolet tawny ; 

 fore-flaps gray ; hind-wings tawny at the base. Length of the body 

 14 lines; of the wings 43 lines. 



83. Cicada septemdecim. 



Cicada septemdecim, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 708,^20. Kalm, Reize, 

 173. Act. Holm. 1756, 101. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 3, 2099, 

 20. StoU, Cic. 26, pi. 3, f. 14. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 749, 13, 

 pi. Ill, f. 2. Collinson, Ohs. Cic. North Amer. Phil. Trans. 

 Lond. liv. 65. Hildreth, Amer. Journ. Sci. x. 327. Potter, 

 Notes on the Locusta. Harris, Ins. Neiv Engl. 167. 



Tettigonia Septendecim, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 679, 6. Sp. Ins. ii. 319, 

 6. Mant. Ins. ii. 266, 9. Ent. Sjjst. iv. 199. Syst. Rhyn. 

 36, 15. 



a, h. North America. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 c, d. North America. 



Cicada (pupa). 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Cicada (pupa). 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Cicada (pupa). 

 a, b. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



