[Reprinted from Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 

 XXVII, No. I, Match, 1919.I 



CICADAS OF THE GENUS CACAMA, WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF SEVERAL NEW SPECIES. 



By Wm. T. Davis, 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



In Genera Insectorum Mr. Distant lists Cacama iiiaura Dist. from 

 Mexico and Yucatan; and both Cacama dissiiiiilis Dist. and Cacama 

 longirostris Dist. from Mexico. These three species were described 

 in 1881 in Biol. Centr.-Amer., maura and longirostris under the 

 generic name of Proarna, and dissimilis as a Cicada. Uhler's Pro- 

 arna valvata described from Texas and Arizona in 1888 in Ento- 

 mologica Americana, is listed in that genus in Genera Insectorum, 

 but Mr. Van Duzee removed it to the genus Cacama in 191 5 (Jour- 

 nal N. Y. Ento. Society). In the Transactions of the San Diego 



