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the fore ang'le inward and the hind ang^le outward ; sides, cross- 

 ridge and hind border also tawny, the hitter slightly excavated : ah- 

 domen obcouical, a little narrower and very much longer than the 

 chest, tawny at the tip ; hind Ijorders of the segments mostly tawny : 

 drums black with tawny borders, extremely small, far apart : legs 

 black ; thiglis and fore-hips adorned with tawny stripes ; four 

 hinder knees tawny ; fore-thighs armed with three black teeth, two 

 large and one small ; middle-shanks pitchy with a tawny band near 

 the base ; four hinder feet pitchy with a tawny band in the middle ; 

 hind-shanks pale tawny, pitchy at the base and at the tips, beset 

 with pitchy spines whose tips are ferruginous : wings colourless ; 

 fore borders pitchy, inclosing a yellow stripe which extends as far as 

 the yellow brand ; veins black, tawny tow^ards the base. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



134. Cicada multifascia, Mas. 



Nervus iransverstis liis fere rectus, .siihcrectun, anf/ulum ohfusunt 

 Jingens, '2ofere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us suhcurvus, 

 fere erectus, atif/nlum obtusion fine/ens, \o pauUb ionrjior ; 3us 

 vix undatuft, obliquus, amjuhnti acutum fingeiu ; Aus fere 

 rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o paullo brerior. 



Second marginal areolet three-fourths of the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein nearly straight, almost upright, forming an obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second 

 slightly curved, nearly upright, "forming an obtuse angle, a little 

 longer than the first ; third very indistinctly waved, slanting, form- 

 ing an acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, a little shorter, rather 

 less slanting and forming a less acute angle than the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, upright, forming a rit;ht auL^le. Body black, 

 slender : head as broad as the fore-chest ; face slightly convex, not 

 at all prominent: mouth black, reaching near to the hind-hips: 

 eyes prominent: feelers black : structure of the chest like that of C. 

 riijifascia : sides and hind border of the scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest red : abdomen oblanceolate,near twice the length of the chest, 

 longer than that of C. rufifascia ; hind borders of the segments 

 adorned with narrow bright red bands which arc mostly entire ; a 

 broad red partly interrui)tcd band on the penultimate segment ; last 

 segment black above, with a forked red mark on each side ; under 

 side red: legs pale red; thighs striped with black; feet and fore- 

 shanks dark red ; fore-thighs armed with three long black teeth : 

 wings colourless; fore border pale red as far as the brand, dark 



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