amerigAna 



VOL, lY. 



BROOKLYN, i^UGUST, 1888. 



NO. 5. 



Preliminary Survey of the CICADiEA of the United 

 States, Antilles, and Mexico. 



By p. R. Uhlek 



(Contimied from pat;e 23, Vol. IV.) 



3. P. minor, new sjd. 



Form nearly that of /'. piitnaini ; color a bronze black, more highly polished 

 upon the tergum than elsewhere ; the surface, excepting the ter>;um and notum in- 

 vested with long gray, or yellowish hairs and with white hairs around the meso- 

 thoracic cro~s. Head and thorax minutely rough and wrinkled, overspread 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 excavated, and ha\ing a nearly complete impiesstd line each side ; an- 

 teinuie stout, black, the ba-al joint tipped with yellow, the apical joint testaceous, 

 supra-antennal plate orange yellow ; front having the sulcus disti.ict from the base to 

 below the middle, and thence expanding and becomin.^ effaced, with 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 dot at the base of 

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

 obsoletely 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, posterior margin feebly concave with the edge yellow ; 

 pleural pieces, flaps and acetabulas 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, clothed 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 white ; membrane of 

 base of wings and basal portion of nervures white. 



