158 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



space alonff the hind border. Length of the bodj 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 28 lines. 



a,h. ? 



96. Cicada Dexithea, Mas. 



Nervus transversus li/s curvus, subnbliquus, angulum suhacutum 

 Jingens^ 2o sexties ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 subobliqiius^ angulum obiusiim fin gens, lo brevior ; 3us sub- 

 curvus subobliquus, angulum rectum fingens ; Am subcwvus, 

 obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3ofere duplb longior. 



Second marginal areolet less than half the length of the first: 

 first cross-vein curved, very slightly slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle, parted from the second by full six times its length ; 

 second slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 shorter than the first ; third very slightly curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming a right angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle, nearly twice the length of the third ; fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a slightly acute angle. Body tawny : head 

 and chest tinged with green, especially on each side : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest, somewhat pitchy about the eyelets ; 

 face rather convex, adorned with two pitchy stripes: mouth with a 

 black tip, reaching a little beyond the hind-hips : eyes not promi- 

 nent : feelers tawny : hind-scutcheon of the fore-chest narrow in 

 the middle, angular and much widened at the base of each fore- 

 wing, excavated on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with four ferruginous stripes ; inner pair short and very in- 

 distinct; hind border hardly excavated: abdomen obconical, much 

 longer than the chest, ferruginous towards the tip : opercula none ; 

 tymbals tawny ; each adoraed with a white half-circle ; drums pale 

 green, of moderate size, meeting, about one-third of the length of 

 the abdomen ; legs tawny ; tips of the shanks and of the feet pitchy ; 

 tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two tawny teeth : 

 wings colourless ; fore borders and veins pale green, tawny towards 

 the tips ; first and second cross-veins slightly clouded with pale 

 brown ; a row of pale brown spots on the marginal areolets ; fore- 

 flaps pale buff; hind-flaps pale buff" between the middle-vein and 

 the hind border. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 28 

 lines. 



