186 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tawny with a red streak from thence till near the tip ; veins black, 



tawny at the base ; fore-membranes red; flaps pale red at the base 



and along the veins. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 



15 — 16 lines. 



a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



h. New Holland. 



135. Cicada singula, Fern. 



Nervns transversus lus fere rectus, erectus, angidum suhohtusum 

 fingens, 2o plus tripld ejus longitudine clivisus ; 2us fere rec- 

 tus, subobliquus^ angulum ohtusum fingens, \o paullo longior ; 

 3m5 vix undatus, ohliquus, angidum siibacutum Jingens ; 4u« 

 subcurvus, obliquus, angidum acutiim Jingens, So longior. 



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

 first cross-vein almost straight, upright, forming a slightly obtuse 

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

 almost straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, a little 

 longer than the first ; third hardly waved, slanting, forming a 

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

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

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black, like that of C. 

 midtifascia in shape : head dark red, a little broader than the fore- 

 chest; face black, slightly convex, not all prominent: mouth dark 

 red, reaching near the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers pitchy with 

 whitish tips : fore-chest linear, adorned with a dark red stripe which 

 is widened in front and behind ; hind-scutcheon dark red, narrow 

 above, broader on each side where it extends beyond the scutcheon : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two dark red parallel 

 stripes ; sides dark red ; hind border pale tawny, hardly excavated : 

 abdomen oblanceolate, nearly twice the length of the cliest, pale red 

 beneath ; hind borders of the segments adorned with narrow entire 

 tawny bands which are wider on each side than in the middle; band 

 of the penultimate segment broad but partly interrupted; last seg- 

 ment tawny, adorned with two black stripes which in front are 

 continued across to the sides of the abdomen, and are united behind 

 to a slender black stripe which runs between and extends to the tip : 

 legs tawny ; thighs dark tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-legs 

 ferruginous ; fore-thighs armed with three long pitchy teeth : wings 

 colourless ; fore border pale red ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the 

 base ; fore membranes tawny ; flaps tawny at the base and along 

 the middle vein. The specimen described may be immature. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



