366 JASSID.E. 



through the tegmina, and thus gives them the clouded appearance 

 as in the above figure. At the basal margin of the scutellum are 

 two very obscure transverse linear black spots ; the prouotum is 

 thickly finely ti'ansversely striate, the face obliquely striate on each- 

 lateral area. 



A single example was sent me by Mr. Green. 



Division CICADULARIA. 



Cicadulini, Van Duzee, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. six, p. 298 (1892). 



" Outer branch of the first sector of the elytra with its outer 

 fork obsolete, or nearly so; anterior edge of the head well 

 rounded, vertex but little if at all longer on the middle than next 

 the eye." {Vati Uazee.) 



Vertex only half as long, or less than half as long, as breadth 

 between eyes. 



Synopsis of Genera.* 



A. "First two sectors of the wiugs coalescing 



before the apex, the resulting nervure unit- 

 ing with the costa some distance before the 



tip of the wing, thus forming but two apical 



areoles " Balclutha, p. 368. 



E. " First two sectors of the wings united for a 



greater or less distance, but soon again 



separating and attaining the apex of the 



wing, thus forming three apical areoles" . . Cicadvla, p. 3G6. 



Genus CICADULA. 



Cicadula, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 296 (1838) ; Fieh. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wieii, 

 xvi, p. 506 (1866) ; Van Duzee, Psyche, vi, p. 305 (1892) ; id. 

 Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 300 (1892) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 187 (1903). 



Macrosteles, Fieh. Verh-. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xvi, p. 504 (1866). 



Thamnus, Fieb. torn. cit. p. 505. 



Type, C. variata, Fall., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Probably generally distributed. 



In Fieber's system, adopted by Puton, Cicadula is restricted to 

 those species in which the outer branch of the first sector of the 

 tegmina is obsolete or nearly so, thus leaving two anteapical 

 areoles instead of three, as in Thamnotetfix. Cicadula, as re- 

 stricted by Van Duzee, has " Head broad and rounded before as 



* As defined by Van Duzee. 



