56 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^oi. xxiv. 



Measurements (in Millimeters). 



Male Type. 

 Ltngth of body 22 



Width of head across eyes 8.5 



Expanse of fore wings 58 



Greatest width of fore wing 9 



Greatest width of operculum 4.5 



Greatest length of operculum 5 



In addition to the type, which is figured, and which is a rather 

 small individual, the following specimens have been examined : 



San Benito, Cameron Co., Tex., fifteen males. Davis collection. 



Brownsville, Cameron Co., Tex., three males (F. H. Snow). 

 Coll. University of Kans. 



Cicada tcxana closely resembles Cicada sordidata Uhler from 

 Florida and Georgia, but may be separated from that species by the 

 differently shaped uncus, by the less prominent grooves extending lat- 

 erally down the sides of the abdominal segments and by having a 

 somewhat brighter color pattern. There also seems to be, judging 

 from the material at hand, some constant differences in color. 



Cicada olympusa Walker. 



Cicada sordidata Uhler, was described in the Transactions of the 

 Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1892, p. 175, from two males from 

 Southern Florida. We figure a male from Big Pine Key, Fla., Sept. 



Cicadia soYdidaTa 



19, 1913, that has been compared with one marked " S. Fla." in 

 Uhler's collection in the United States Nat. Museum, and labeled in 

 his handwriting " Cicada sordidata." This was no doubt one of his 



