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hurst, N. J., where in late June and in July it is often very common, 

 and on warm days the songs of the numerous individuals constitute 

 an almost continuous performance. We figure a male from Lake- 

 hurst, which will give a good idea of its size, form and wing pattern. 

 The head, pronotum and mesonotum are tawny, tinged with green and 

 marked with black as mentioned by Say; the abdomen tawny, nar- 

 rowly lined between the tympana with black ; a short longitudinal line 

 on the dorsum of the second segment, the basal half of the last seg- 

 ment and most of the supra-anal plate, are also black. There is a 

 conspicuous black spot behind each eye, not mentioned by Say, and 



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the black marks on the head, pronotum and prothorax are well de- 

 fined. In the writer's collection there are specimens of this species, 

 in form and markings like those from New Jersey, from Southern 

 Pines, N. C, Clayton, Ga., Grand Bay, Mobile Co., Ala., and Osyka, 

 Pike Co., Miss. 



E. F. Germar in Thon, Entomologisches Archiv, ii, 2, p. 4 [should 

 have been p. 40], 1830, gives a description of Cicada characterea, 

 which he says inhabits Georgia, America. The description is short 

 but it covers Cicada hieroglyphica, and from the locality given there 

 seems to be no doubt but what that was the species intended. This 

 description has been overlooked of late years and has not been 

 brought to the attention of entomologists, the name not appearing in 

 Genera Insectorum. The question arises which name has priority 

 as both Cicada hieroglyphica and Cicada characterea are recorded as 

 having been proposed in 1830- Say's description appeared in the 

 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and 



