2 Journal New York Entomological Society. t^'°'- xxix, 



smaller, have less prominent eyes, and are differently marked from 

 what we identify as Tibiccn montezuma, examined from Texas and 

 Arizona, which expands from 75 to 80 millimeters. 



Tibicen cinctifera (Uhler). PI. I, figs, i, 2 and 3. 



This species was described in the Transactions of the Maryland 

 Academy of Science, i, p. 156, 1892, under the name of Cicada cinctif- 

 era. The original description calls for an insect with front wings 

 expanding from y6 to 85 millimeters, with the " tip and middle of base 

 of tergum coated with white powder," and the " opercula greenish 

 white, black at base, pruinose, triangular, a little rounded at tip, less 

 than half as long as the venter." Of the material examined Uhler 

 says : " Three specimens from Las Cruces, New Mexico, have been 

 kindly sent to me by Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend, and a large female 

 was captured in Northern California by my friend, James Behrens." 



The Uhler collection, in the United States National Museum, was 

 examined in June, 1920, for the specimens mentioned in the original 

 description. The following were found : male with " Las Cruces " 

 on first label, "129" on second label, "P. R. Uhler collection" on 

 third label, and " Cicada cinctifera Uhler, New Mex." on fourth 

 label; male labeled "Las Cruces, P. R. Uhler collection, 129," and 

 a female bearing three labels reading " N. Calif., Behrens, P. R. 

 Uhler collection," These specimens, which are no doubt three of 

 the four mentioned in the original description, have the " tip and 

 middle of base of tergum coated with white powder," and the 

 opercula a little rounded at the tips, with the outer edges nearly 

 parallel to each other. In all three the costal margin of the fore 

 wing is colored a rather bright orange to the end of the radial cell. 

 Also in the United States National Museum there are two males 

 and four females from Brewster Co., Texas, Rio Grande, June 

 13-17, 1908, collected by Mitchell and Cushman, that are like the 

 typical material in the shape of the opercula and in coloring. 



In the writer's collection there are the following specimens like 

 Uhler's types of cinctifera: a male from Del Rio, Texas, Devil's 

 River, July 3, 1917, collected by Dr. H. H. Knight, and a male from 

 Mesilla, New Mexico, June 28, 1897, received from Prof. Albert 

 P. Morse. Mesilla is in Donna Anna Co., New Mexico, on the 

 Rio Grande and within five miles of Las Cruces the type locality. 



