148 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



black hands ; cross-veins cliieBy black ; clouded with brown ; a row 

 of brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal 

 areolets ; fore-flaps brown ; hind-flaps brown at the base. Length 

 of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 50 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



86. Cicada albiflos, Mas. 



Neri'us transversus \iis subcurvus, subobliqiius, angulum suhacu- 

 tumfingens^ 2o phis quadruplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 fere rectus, subobliqiius, angulum obtusum jingens, \o paulla 

 brevior ; 3us subrectus, rectus, angulum obtusum jingens 

 4us vix undatus, obliquus, angulum vix acutum Jingens, 3y 

 inultb longior. 



Second marginal areolet half the length of the first: first cross- 

 vein slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute an- 

 gle, parted from the second by more than four times its length ; 

 second nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 a little shorter than the first, joining the fourth marginal areolet very 

 near the base of the latter ; third nearly straight, upright, forming 

 an obtuse angle ; fourth hardly waved, slanting, forming a hardly 

 acute angle, very much longer than the third ; fifth slightly curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a hardly obtuse angle. Body very pale 

 ferruginous, covered with white down : head very little narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; a black dot on each side of the eyelets ; face 

 convex, not prominent : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the 

 hind-hips : eyes a little prominent : feelers black, tawny at the base ; 

 fore-chest a little narrower in front than behind; furrows of the 

 scutcheon tawny ; hind-scutcheon broad, a little widened and rather 

 angular on each side, convex in front where it embraces the sides of 

 the scutcheon ; hind border of the middle-chest excavated ; abdo- 

 men obconical, a little longer but narrower than the chest : opercula 

 none ; tymbals pale ferruginous ; drums pale tawny, rather small, 

 less than one-third of the length of the abdomen, parted by a mode- 

 rate interval : legs pale tawny ; thighs adorned with pitchy stripes ; 

 claws pitchy above except at the base ; tips of the fore-shanks and 

 the fore-feet pitchy; fore-thighs armed with three tawny teeth, two 

 of which are very small, and the third, which is between them, is 

 very large, a structure peculiar to this species : wings whitish ; veins 

 of the fore-wings pale buff or pale red, of the hind-wings almost 

 white ; fore border pale red or whitish green, tinged with brown 

 about the brand, as are also some parts of the veins in the disks ; 

 tips of the longitudinal vein of the first marginal areolet, and of the 



