VOL. IV. 



BROOKLYN, JiUGUST, 1888. 



NO. 5. 



Preliminary Survey of the CICAD^A of the United 



States, Antilles, and Mexico. 



By p. R. Uhler 



(Continued from pai;e 23, \'ol. IV.) 



3. P. minor, new sp. 



Form !iearly th;it of P. piitnami ; color a lironze black, more highly polished 

 c.pon the tergum than elsewliere ; the surface, excepting the tergum and notuni in- 

 v^stfd with long gray, or yellowish hairs and with white hairs ai'ound the meso- 

 thoracic cro.-s. Head and thoiax miniilely rough and wrinkled, oveispread with 

 minute appressed bronze thread-scales. Vertex transversely scooped out anteriorly, 

 and broadly sinuated between the eyes and posterior margin ; middle of the base 

 longitudinally excasated, and having a nearly con.plete inipiessid line each side ; an- 

 tenna stout, black, the basal joint tipped with yellow, the apical joint testaceous, 

 supra-antennal plate orange yellow ; fioiit having the sulcus distnict from the base to 

 l^elow the middle, aiid thence expanding and becoming effaced, witli the margins 

 distinctly carinated, and the transverse grooves distinct : face and epistoma with long 

 blackish and white hairs ; outer margin of the cheeks and a faint clot at the base of 

 vertex in the groove yellow. Pronotuin sub quadrangular, wrinkled, the middle line 

 obst)letely impressed anteriorly, convex and polished posteriorly ; the lateral margins 

 moderately curved, sinuated before the humeral angles, which latter are blunt tri- 

 angular and turned up, jiosterior margin feebly concave with the edge yellow ; 

 pleural pieces, flaps and acetabulce margined more or less broadly with yellow ; the 

 whole underside bronze-black, minutely scabrous, densely coated with silvery scales 

 and long white hairs. Legs flavo-piceous, clotlied with long remote white hairs and 

 bristles, the coxae, knees, and tarsi dark piceous. Wing-covers hyaline, somewhat 

 tinged with fulvous at base, the nervures of the apical cells, as well as the one form- 

 ing the inner margin, piceous black, the radial nervure paler piceous ; posterior 

 limbs of the mesothoracic cross and surface each side thereof while; membrane of 

 base of wings and basal portion of nervures white. 



