8 Journal New York Entomolo.ucal Society, f^'o'- xxni. 



Fidicina literata Walktr. 



This species was also described by Walker in 1850 in " List of 

 the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the 

 British Museum, Part i." and as with rcsoiiaiis no locality is men- 

 tioned. From size and description especially of the mesonotum it 

 may be the same as Cicada aitlctcs. The length of the body is given 

 as 20 lines and the expanse of wings as 59 lines, which are a little 

 large for aiilcfcs. 



Fidicina figurata Walker. 



This was described in 1858 in " List of the Specimens of Homop- 

 terous Insects in the collection of the British Museum, Supplement"; 

 and as with several of the species already mentioned no locality is 

 given. If it is North American it is probably either Cicada lyricen 

 De Geer (1773) or Cicada similaris Smith and Grossbeck (1907). 

 Walker says : " Prothorax reddish, black in front and behind, with a 

 double tawny stripe, border tawny, with a black streak on each side. 

 . . . Fore wings narrow, much acuminated. . . . Length of the body 

 17 lines; of the wings 44 lines." We understand that the wings 

 expand 44 lines. 



The fore wings are acuminate in both lyricen and similaris, par- 

 ticularly so in the latter ; they both have the hind border of the 

 prothorax black, and the size is right for either. The hind margin 

 of the prothorax is green or olive in aidctcs. marginata and rcsh and 

 the wings in these three spcies are not much acuminated, and figurata 

 is also too small an insect to be considered the same as grossa or 

 aulctes. 



Leaving the cicadas that have been more or less associated in 

 the past with Cicada aulctes or grossa we come to the consideration 

 of Cicada pruinosa and its varieties. 



Cicada pruinosa var. latifasciata ntw variety. 



In their " Studies in Certain Cicada Species," Entomological 

 News, April, 1907, Smith and Grossbeck drew up a description of C. 

 pruinosa from the eight specimens from the coast of New Jersev in 

 their possession, and in describing C. zvinnemanna, Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society, October, 1912, the writer followed 

 their lead in considering these specimens typical of Say's species. 

 However, in the last few years we have, through the kindness of 



