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tymbals gray ; drums pale tawny, rather small, wide apart : legs 

 black; hips and thighs adorned with tawny stripes ; knees and hind- 

 shanks tawny ; shanks red at the base ; fore-thighs armed with 

 two stout teeth ; hind-feet tawny with black tips : fore-wings dark 

 reddish tawny from the base to the cross-veins, nearly colourless 

 from thence to the tips ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of 

 brown spots along the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal 

 areolets ; veins black, adorned as far as the cross-veins with nume- 

 rous little tawny bands; hind-wings bright red as far as the cross- 

 veins which are clouded with black, colourless from thence to the 

 borders which are adorned with opaline lustre ; veins black, adorned 

 here and there with tawny bands ; flaps bright red. 



Fern. — Abdomen more obconical and a little shorter than that 

 of the male ; bands tawny, less interrupted : legs tawny ; hips and 

 thighs slightly striped with black ; fore-shanks and middle-shanks 

 very slightly striped with black ; feet black : fore-wings colourless, 

 brownish-tawny towards the base ; cross-veins clouded with pale 

 brown ; a row of pale brown spots at the tips of the longitudinal 

 veins of the marginal areolets ; hind-wings red nearly as far as the 

 cross-veins which are clouded wiOi brown, colourless thence to the 

 tips ; flaps bright red. 



Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 27 lines. 



a, h. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



171. Cicada, primitiva, Mas. 



Nermis transversus lus snbcurvus, perohliquus^ angulum perohtu- 

 sum fingens, 2o triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcur- 

 vus^ perobliquiis, angulum nonfingens^ \o paullb brevior ; 3us 

 subundatus^ obliguus, angulum acutum fingens ; 4m5 valde 

 curvus, fere erectus^ angulum rectum Jing ens ^ 3o paullb bre- 

 vior. 



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

 vein slightly curved, extremely slanting, forming an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by full thrice its length ; second 

 very slightly curved, so extremely slanting that it does not form the 

 usual angle, a little shorter than the first ; third slightly waved, slant- 

 ing, forming an acute angle ; fourth much curved, nearly upright, 

 forming a right angle, a little shorter than the third; fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black, pale 

 red beneath : head red, narrower than the fore-chest ; a broad black 

 band across the crown ; three red spots along the hind border; face 

 very slightly convex : mouth red with a black tip reaching the mid- 



