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Family CICADID^. (Vol. Ill, p. 55.) 



In Yoluine III, 141) s])ecies of Cicadidae were enumenitcd and 

 described as t'oiind in tliis Pauiia. I am now able to add 23 more 

 species, bringing up the total to 172. 



Genus PLATYPLEUBA. (Vol. Ill, p. 58.) 



3130. Platypleura atkinsoni, Ui'^t. A. M. N. II. (8)ix, p. 181 (191 -J), 



5 . Body above cinnamomeous brown ; vertex narrowly at inner 

 margins of eyes, and narrow anterior margins of vertex and 

 front, piceous or black ; ocelli iiarrowly margined with black ; 

 pronotum with the lateral and posterior margins and the anterior 



Fig. 1. — Plafi/plcKm afkinsonl. 



marginal area ochraceous, and \\itli a more or less distinct ])iceoiis 

 central fascia; mesoiiotuni with two obconical spots on anterior 

 margin and a sublateral lim- ou each side black, the basal cruciform 

 elevation ochraceous ; posterior abdominal segmental margins 

 distinctly paler; body beneath and legs cinnamomeous brown, 

 the sternum and legs distinctly pilose ; head beneath with a 

 transverse black fascia between the eyes crossing anterior margin 

 of face; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous; 

 tegmina with the costal membrane and exLreiiie base ochraceous, 

 the .whole tegrainal area somewhat sparsely speckled with small 

 but distinct black spots, those on the apical marginal area in tw o 



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