OP PHILADELPHIA. 371 



maculate : wings hyaline : beneath the scutel a large black spot ; 

 tergum dull yellowish ; segments dusky at tips ; second segment 

 with a black spot each side at base ; venter tinged with green ; 

 feet tinged with honey-yellow. 



Length less than three-twentieths of an inch. 



Closely allied to C. Uneatiis of Europe, but differs in the color 

 of the tergum. [188] 



EPHYDRA Meig. 



E. HIANS. — Cinereous ; front dark bluish. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



Body dark cinereous : front and vertex dark bluish : antennae 

 black-brown; second joint as long as the third; seta thick at 

 base, slender at tip : hypostoma hairy : thorax with a slight green 

 reflection : scutel also with a slight green reflection : tergum the 

 same. 



Length nearly one-fifth of an inch. 



LONCHCEA Fall. 



L. POLITA. — ^Black ; tarsi white. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body shining black, with a very slight tint of blue hardly per- 

 ceptible : antennae as long as the hypostoma; terminal joint more 

 than three times as long as the two others together, at its base 

 under the seta obscure honey-yellow : hypostoma with a slight 

 gray reflection : wings hyaline ; nervures pale brownish ; tarsi 

 yellowish-white, last joint dusky. 



Length more than three-twentieths of an inch. 



[From Vol. 6, 1830, pp. 235—244.] 



Descriptions of new North American HEMIPTEKOUS INSECTS, belong, 

 ing to the first family of the section HOMOPTEKA of Latreille. 



• CICADA Oliv. Latr. Germ. 



1. C. HIEROGLYPHICA. — Greenish; head and thorax litterate 

 with black. 



Inhabits Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 



Body greenish : head rounded before ; bifasciate with black 

 before the eyes ; from the superior band proceed four black lines 

 1830.] 



