LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 193 



143. Cicada diversa, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus SKbcurvus, fere erectus, angulum subohtu- 

 sum jxngens^ 2o fere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 siibcurvus, valde obliguiis, angulum perobtusum Jiugens, \o 

 multb longinr ; 3ms siibcurvus, obliquus, angulum rectum 

 fingens ; A^us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum vi.v acutum fin- 

 gens, 3i longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer tlian the first : first 

 cross-vein slightly curved, nearly upright, foiTning a very slightly 

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

 second very slighily curved, very slanting, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, very much longer than the first : third very slightly 

 curved, slanting, forming a right angle : fourth nearly straight, 

 slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, as long as the third; fifth 

 slightly curved, upright, foraiing a slijrhtly acute angle. Body 

 black above, tawny beneath : head small, much narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; crown adorned with three tawny spots on the hind 

 border, and at the base of each feeler with a large tawny spot which 

 nearly incloses a black dot ; face very convex, not prominent, black 

 in front, beneath tawny with a black stripe : mouth pale tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind hips : eyes not prominent : feelers 

 black : fore-chest narrower before than behind : scutcheon adorned 

 with a tawny stripe which joins the middle spot on the hind border, 

 and with two slightly oblique tawny streaks on each side : hind- 

 scutcheon very narrow above, much widened on each side : its hind 

 border ta\vny : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned ^^■ith two in- 

 distinct tawny streaks, by which it is imperfectly divided into the 

 usual obconical stripes : sides, cross-ridge and hind border tawny, 

 the latter slightly excavated: abdomen obconical, a little bioader 

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

 the whole surface on one-third of the breadth of each side tawny : 

 opercula none ; tvmbals grayish-tawny : drums pale tawny, rather 

 small, pitchy at the base, meeting in the middle : legs tawny : hips 

 and thighs adorned with pitchy streaks ; tips of the shanks and of 

 the feet pitchy ; claws black ; fore-thighs armed with tw o long black 

 teeth whose tips are ferruginous : wings colourless : fore border 

 tawny ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base : fore-flaps yel- 

 low ; hind-flaps yellow at the base and along the veins, and for a 

 short space along the hind border ; an indistinct cross-vein in the 

 first discoidal areolet of the left hind-wing. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 

 n ? 



