220 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



than the fore-chest, adorned with three tawny spots along the hind 

 border of the crown and with a tawny spot on each side of the face 

 which is veiy slightly convex and not prominent: mouth tawny with 

 a black tip reaching the middle-hips : feelers black : eyes not pro- 

 minent : fore-chest narrower in front than behind ; scutcheon bor- 

 dered with tawny and adorned with three tawny stripes of which the 

 side pair are oblique and have two tawny marks between each of 

 them and the middle one, and one tawny mark between each and 

 the side border ; hind-scutcheon tawny, narrow in the middle, 

 widened, mostly black and extending beyond the scutcheon at the 

 base of each fore-wing, straight on each side : sides and hind border 

 of the scutcheon of the middle-chest mostly tawny ; three irregular 

 tawny stripes on the disk ; hind border not excavated ; abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with a square-shaped 

 white spot on each side of the second segment: opercula none; 

 tymbals dark ferruginous with hoary furrows ; drums pale tawny, 

 very small, the breadth of each one equal to the space between them : 

 legs tawny, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; hips, thighs and fore- 

 shanks striped with black ; fore-feet and tips of the other feet black ; 

 claws tawny with black tips ; fore-thighs armed with two stout lawny 

 teeth which are black at the base and at the tips : wings colourless ; 

 brands rather large ; first and second cross-veins and the spaces be- 

 tween them and between the first and the fore border clouded with 

 brown ; veins tawny, adorned with very numerous black bauds ; fore- 

 flaps pale buff; hind- flaps pale buff towards the hind border. Length 

 of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



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



173. Cicada rosea, Mas. 



Nervus iransversus lus rectus, fere erectus, angulum obiusum fin- 

 gens, 2o sexties ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, sub- 

 obliquus, angulum obtusum fingens, \o multb longior ; 'Sus 

 fere rectus, ohliquus, angulum rectum fingens; Ans subcurvus, 

 valde obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o •multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet about three-fourths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein straight, nearly upright, forming an obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by six times its length ; second slightly 

 curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, very much longer 

 than the first ; third almost straight, slanting, forming a right an- 

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

 very much longer than the third ; fifth very slightly curved, upright, 

 forming a right angle. Body tawny with a reddish tinge : head 



