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

 very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, longer 

 than the first ; third nearly straight, slanting, forming an almost 

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

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

 upright, forming a hardly acule angle. The description of C. 

 Mneme >vill apply also to this species, but there is a difference in 

 the structure of the wing-veins. Length of the body 10 lines; of 

 the winifs 22 lines. 



132. Cicada Latorea, Mas. 



Nervus transrersns 2us subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum 

 Jingens, \o paullb lomjior ; 3us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum 

 subacutum Jingens ; Aus fere rectus, obliqum, angulum acutum 

 Jingens, So brevior. 



Second marginal areolet as long as three-fourths of the first : 

 first cross-vein in both wings of the insect described forming of itself 

 a right angle, whence proceeds an additional longitudinal vein which 

 divides the second marginal areolet ; second slightly curved, very 

 slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, a little longer than the 

 first, and parted from it by full thrice its length ; third hardly 

 curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle; fourth nearly 

 straight, slanting, forming an acute angle, shorter than the third*; 

 fifth curved, upright, forming a nearly right angle. In both wings 

 of the insect described an additional slanting cross-vein divides the 

 front areolet, and in the left wing there is an additional cross- vein 

 near the base of the sixth marginal areolet. Body black : head a 

 little narrower than the fore-chest ; crown adorned with an inter- 

 rupted tawny stripe, and on each side with a tawny spot ; face 

 slightly convex, adorned with an irregular tawny band, before Avhich 

 there is a small tawny spot, and the sides in front are also tawny : 

 mouth dark red with a black tip reaching the middle hips : eyes 

 prominent : feelers black : fore-chest a little narrower in front tlian 

 behind ; scutcheon tawny along the fore border, adorned with six 

 oblique tawny stripes ; hind-scutcheon partly tawny, narrow^ round- 

 ed and sliL^htly widened above the base of each fore-wing, excavated 

 on each side: scutcheon of the middle chest tawny, adorned with 

 four broad black obconical stripes ; the inner pair much shorter than 

 the outer pair, united towards the base ; furrows mostly black along 

 the hind border which is not excavated : abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer and narrower than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 



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