150 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



towards the tip of the wing ; cross-veins more or less clouded with 

 brown ; a row of small brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal 

 veins of the marginal areolets ; flaps colourless. Length of the 

 body 9 — 10 lines ; of the wings 26 — 28 lines. 



a — c. St. John's Bluff, Florida. Presented by £. Doubleday, Esq- 

 c/, e. ? 



88. Cicada scutellaris, Mas. 



Nervus transversus \us curvus, fere erectus, angulum fere rectum 

 Jingens, 2o plus tripld ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, 

 subobliquus, angulum obtusum Jingens, \o longior ; 3us sub- 

 rectus, obliquus^ angulum subacutum jingens ; 4us sub curvus, 

 valde obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens, 3o mullb longior. 



Second marginal areolet four-fifths of the length of the first : 

 first cross- vein curved, nearly upright, forming an almost right an- 

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

 curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, longer than the 

 first ; third nearly straight, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; 

 fourth very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an acute angle, 

 very much longer than the third ; fifth nearly straight, slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle. Body green : head and fore-chest tinged 

 with tawny : head as broad as the fore-chest ; three black marks on 

 the crown ; face slightly convex, not prominent, adorned above with 

 an elliptical black mark : mouth tawny with a black tip reaching 

 the middle-hips : eyes rather prominent : feelers black : fore-chest 

 adorned with a greenish white stripe, on each side of which are two 

 black marks, the indications of oblique black stripes ; side border of 

 the scutcheon black ; hind-scutcheon rather narrow, its sides nearly 

 straight : disk of the scutcheon of the middle-chest ferruginous, 

 adorned on each side with three slight black streaks ; excavation on 

 the hind border broad but very shallow : abdomen obconical, ferru- 

 ginous, not longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 gra^s-green ; under side tawny with a broad black stripe : opercula 

 none : tymbals whitish : drums small, tawny, parted by a narrow 

 interval : legs green ; shanks and feet mostly tawny : tips of the 

 claws black ; fore-thighs adorned with three stout black teeth : wings 

 colourless, green at the base ; fore border tawny, green at the base, 

 brown towards the tip ; veins black, green towards the base ; fore 

 borders of the flaps clouded with brown. Length of the body 8 

 lines ; of the wings 21 lines. 



a. New Zealand. From Mr. Earl's collection. 



