58 Journal New York Entomological Society, f^'o'- ^^iv, 



inner pair approximate, connected by a short black band in front, 

 the outer pair very near the borders; two black discal dots; hind 

 border greenish. Mesothorax with four conical black stripes, the 

 inner pair short, the outer pair much intersected. Abdomen with 

 an interrupted black band on each segment. Wings vitreous; veins 

 pale green, black towards the tips. Fore wings with the first and 

 second transverse veins clouded with dark brown." The wings are 

 said to expand 27 lines, that is about 57 mm. 



Cicada viridifascia Walker. 



Cicada sordidata has been placed by Distant as a synonym of 

 Cicada viridifascia, but this last is a larger insect, about the size of 

 Cicada rcpcrta Uhler. Cicada viridifascia was described in 1850 

 without locality. Walker says in part : " wings colorless ; fore border 

 tawny for half the length, black from thence till near the tip ; veins 

 tawny; cross-veins and adjoining parts of the longitudinal veins 

 tawny; primitive areolet partly brown; fore-flaps whitish, as are also 

 the hind-flaps at the base. Length of the body 11-12 lines [24-26 

 mm.]; of the wings [expanse] 33-34 lines [70-72 mm.].*' This as 

 well as the remainder of the description covers fairly well Cicada 

 reperta Uhler, which has been found along the Atlantic coast from 

 North Carolina to Southern Florida, but it does not cover Cicada 

 sordidata, which has the first and second cross veins in the fore 

 wings clouded and expands about 60-65 I'ti"^- 



Cicada vitripennis Say. 



What we have identified as this species is an insect with green in 

 its coloring as mentioned by its describer; not entirely orange and 

 black as in Cicada cngrapJiica from further west. Say says that the 

 insect was presented to him by Mr. Nuttall " from the Arkansaw," 

 and we figure a reddish green female collected by Mr. Alanson 

 Skinner, July, 1914, at Perkins, Oklahoma, as probably from some- 

 where near the type locality. We have three additional specimens, 

 all males and a little smaller of what appear to be of the same species, 

 collected by Mr. W. J. Gerhard in July at Miller, Indiana, and Clark 

 Junction, Indiana. Though a number of collections have been exam- 

 ined no species that so well fits Say's description has so far been 

 found, but future collecting in the region from which the type came, 

 may add to our knowledge in this particular. 



