CICADIDiE. 



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Family CICADID^. 



Stridulantes, Latr. Fam. Nat. E'egne An. p. 426 (1825) ; Amy. Sf 



Serv. Hem. p. 4oS (1843). 

 Stridulantia, Bunn. Haudh. i\, 1, pp. 102 & 170 (1835) ; Stal, Hem. 



Afr. iv, p. 1 (1866). 

 Cicadidc-e. Westw. Intr. Mod. Class. Ins. ii, p. 420 (1840) ; Dist. 



Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 1 (1889). 

 Cicadariae, Pack, {nee Latr.) Guide Stud;/ Ins. ed. v. p. 533 (1876). 



Ocelli three in number and placed on the disk of vertex of head; 

 antennae short, inserted close to eyes and composed of seven 

 joints*; head short, broad, and transverse, terminating beneath 

 in an elongated rostrum composed of three joints ; thorax large ; 

 pronotum short and ti'ansverse, with two oblique discal incisures 

 or furrows on each side ; mesonotum (by some writers referred 

 to as scutellum) very large and terminating posteriorly in a small 

 basal cruciform elevation (which has sometimes been termed 



Fig. 31. — Vlatylomia radha, Dist. 



Body. 



Tcgniina and Wings. 



* This includes the two joints of the peduncle or basal joint ; the flagellum 

 consists of five joints, and, according to Hansen, on the underside of the first 

 and second joints there is a very large number of sensory organs, and on the 

 last three joints he has found a few of the smaller examples of these organs. 



