148 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 



CICADID^. 



By W. L. Distant. 



The British Museum has just acquired from Queensland a 

 Cicada of very exceptional interest. It belongs to the genus 

 Cydochila, founded by Amyot and Serville in 1843, of which 

 only one species (C. australasice), figured by Donovan in 1805, 

 was hitherto known in entomological records. 



Cydochila virens, sp. n, 



<y . Body above olivaceous green, the abdomen darker than head 

 and thorax ; body beneath paler and brighter green, the abdomen 

 shining brownish green ; transverse striations to front and face, ante- 

 rior lateral margins of vertex, eyes, lateral margins of pronotum, 

 narrow posterior margins to dorsal abdominal segments, lateral mar- 

 gins of clypeus, inner areas of coxas and trochanters and the rostrum, 

 pale or dark tawny brown ; tarsi, anterior tibite and apex of rostrum 

 fuscous brown ; ocelli bright shining yellow placed in a small tri- 

 angular black fascia ; basal margins of eyes more or less sanguineous ; 

 opercula distinctly overlapping at inner basal areas ; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, the venation green ; tegmina with the costal mem- 

 brane, post-costal area, and basal cell green, wings with nearly half of 

 anal area green. 



Allied to C. australasia;, Don., but differing by the overlapping 

 basal areas of the opercula, and the straighter and less sinuate lateral 

 margins to same, less ampliate and nonangulate lateral margins of the 

 pronotum, shorter and less produced head, shorter and broader abdo- 

 men which beneath is obliquely inclined upward, face less prominently 

 transversely striate, &c. Long. excl. tegm. <? 43 millim. Exp. tegm. 

 122 mihim. 



Hab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



NEW AMERICAN BEES.— I. 

 By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



(Concluded from p. 127.) 



Perdita hislioppi, n. sp. 

 5 . Length 4 mm. or slightly over; male 3^ or rather more ; in 

 my table (Proc. Phila. Acad.) the female runs to P. califomica, male ; 

 the male runs to the same, or, by reason of its paler nervures, would 

 run as well to P. vespertilio, male."''- It is also near P. vagans. From 

 vcKjnns and vespertilio it is readdy known (male) by the much shorter 

 lateral face-marks ; it also differs conspicuously in the face-marks from 

 califor7iica. 



■'' P. vespertilio was described only from the male. Both sexes were 

 taken at flowers of A-plopai^pus (s. lat.) on the sand-hills at Mesilla, New 



