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164. Cicada fusiformis, Mas. 



Nervus transversus I us fere rectus, subnbliqniis, angulum rectum 

 Jingens, 2o fere duplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us vix cur- 

 vus, erectus, angulum obtusumjiugens, lo multb brevior ; 3ms 

 vix undatm, subobliquus, angulum vix acutuni Jingens ; 4us 

 vix undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, So paullo 

 brevior. 



Second marginal areolet much longer than the first : first cross- 

 vein almost straight, slightly slanting, forming a right angle, parted 

 from the second vein by a little less than twice its length ; second 

 hardly curved, upright, forming an obtuse angle, much shorter than 

 the first; third hardly waved, slightly slanting, forming a hardly 

 acute angle; fourth hardly waved, slanting, forming an acute an- 

 gle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming an acute angle. Body tawny, clothed with tawny hairs, 

 slightly tinged with ferruginous on the back : head very small, little 

 more than half the breadth of the fore-chest ; crown black with the 

 exception of a pale tawny spot at the base of each feeler ; face very 

 convex, rather prominent, adorned with a black band on each side 

 in front : mouth tawny with a pitchy tip, reaching the middle-hips : 

 eyes rather pnnninent : feelers pitchy, tawny at the base and at the 

 tips : fore-chest much narrower before than behind ; scutcheon 

 adorned with a black middle stripe, and on each side with a large 

 black spot; hind -scutcheon very much widened at the base of each 

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

 chest adorned with four obcouical black stripes, the inner pair about 

 half the length of the outer pair, forming a semicircle ; hind border 

 hardly excavated : abdomen oval, longer and broader than the chest, 

 black above at the base, adorned with a row of pitchy dots, taper- 

 ing towards the tip : opercula none ; tymbals tawny ; drums pale 

 tawny, very small, rather far apart : legs pale tawny ; feet and fore- 

 shanks darker tawny ; tips of the claws pitchy ; fore-thighs armed 

 with two long teeth : wings colourless ; fore border and veins tawny ; 

 a yellow band on the brand which is pitchy ; fore-Haps pale tawny ; 

 hind-flaps pale tawny at the base and along part of the fore border. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



