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168. Cicada aurata, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus transi'ersiis lus subcnrims^ obliquus, angidurn valde ohtu- 

 sum fingens^ 2o plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 CU7VUS obliquus, unguium valde obfusumjingens, lo longior ; 

 3ws subcurvus, subobliquus, unguium vix obtusum Jingens ; 

 4ms subcurvus, obliquus, unguium fere rectum jingens, "do lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first cross- 

 vein very slightly curved, oblique, forming a very obtuse angle, 

 parted from the second by much more than twice its length ; second 

 slightly curved, oblique, forming a very obtuse angle, longer than 

 the first; third very slightly curved, slightly oblique, forming a 

 hardly obtuse angle ; fourth very slightly curved, oblique, forming 

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

 nearly upright, forming a nearly right angle. 



Male. — Body black, thickly clothed with tawny hairs, pale 

 tawny beneath : head a little narrower than the fore-chest, adorned 

 with a tawny band in front ; three tawny spots about the region of 

 the eyelets ; face tavvny, very convex, its disk black ; mouth pale 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching the middle-hips : eyes very promi- 

 nent: feelers black: scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with tawny 

 borders and with a short tawny stripe, behind which are two trian- 

 gular tawny spots resting on the hind border ; hind-scutcheon tawny, 

 very narrow in the middle, much widened near the base of each 

 fore-wing, armed with a tooth on each side: scutcheon of the mid- 

 dle-chest adorned with two tawny stripes whose middle parts are much 

 widened ; hind border tawny, very slightly excavated : abdomen 

 velvety black, obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with patches 

 of golden hairs ; opercula none ; tymbals tawny, rather large ; drums 

 pale tawny, small, wide apart ; tip tawny, armed with a tawny horn : 

 legs yellow ; thighs striped with black ; tips of the shanks and of 

 the feet black ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed 

 with three stout black teeth ; fore-sbanks mostly black : wings quite 

 colourless, pale buff and marked with buff at the base ; fore border 

 bright rose red, darker towards the tips, black on the brand ; veins 

 of the fore-wings tawny, black towards the tips ; first and second 

 cross-veins and the longitudinal vein between them clouded with 

 black; veins of the hind-wings pale tawny with black tips; tips of 

 the flaps clouded with brown. In the left wings of the two insects 

 there is a little additional vein which divides the sixth marginal 

 areolet between the third and fourth cross-veins. 



