LAWSON: KANSAS CICADID.i. 339 



lettigia hieroglyphica Uh!.. Stand. Xat. Hist., ii, p. 227. 1884. 



Tettigia hieroglyphica Macg.. Can. Ent., xxxiii, p. 83, 1901. 



Cicada hieroglyphica Van D., Bui. Buf. Soc. Xat. Sci., ix, p. 184, 1909. 



Cicada hieroglyphica Davis. Jl. X. Y. Ent. Soc, p. 60, pi. 6. fis. 5, 191i5. 



Cicada hieroglyphica Van D., Cat. Hemip. X. A., p. 496, 1917. 



Cicada hieroglyphica Davis, Jl. X. Y. Ent. Soc, xxvi, p. 152, 191S. 



A rather small green and black species with the abdomen more yel- 

 lowish-brown. Specimens at hand measure from 20 to 25 mm. 



Color: Head yellowish-green, with two transverse black lines before 

 the eyes and four black longitudinal lines, the outer ones short, running 

 caudad from these. Just mesad and caudad of each eye there are also 

 black spots. Pronotum greenish-yellow, marked with two black median tri- 

 angular spots, enclosing between them a long light band, and uniting in 

 two smaller triangular spots just cephalad of the collar. The grooves are 

 also black and there are black spots on the humeral angles and small 

 black spots are scattered here and there over the surface. Mesonotum 

 yellowish-green, marked with black as follows: A longitudinal median 

 line, spots between the arms of the W, a small triangular spot on each 

 side at anterior margin laterad of these, and a large spot laterad of these 

 small spots, and a black spot on each side of the median line just cephalad 

 of the light cruciform elevation. The abdominal terga are yellowish- 

 brown, the last segment and supra-anal plate being darker and the second 

 segment has a median dorsal black line. The wings have the veins tawny 

 to brown and all four cross veins are darkened, there also being small 

 brown dots near the tip of each vein. The basal areoles of the fore wings 

 are clear and the flaps of both wings are gray with a tawny tinge. 

 Beneath the insect is a little lighter than above and fresh specimens are 

 quite pruinose. The legs are of about the same color as the under side, 

 striped with testaceous, and darkened apically. 



Form: The following are the measurements in millimeters of the 

 specimens at hand : 



Length of body 20 to 25 



Width of head 7 to 8 



Expanse of fore wings 56 to 60 



Greatest width of fore wing 8 to 9 



Greatest width of operculum 3.5 



Greatest length of operculum 3 



The opercula are very small, evenly curving from the antero-lateral 

 corner to the point where the two opercula come nearest together, but 

 even at this point they are far apart. In the male the sternites of the 

 abdomen are distinctly keeled. 



Genitalia: The supra-anal plate of the male is lightly chitinized 

 dorsally at the apex and bears a small median process. The uncus, viewed 

 laterally, is large, tapering ventrally, and ending in an obtuse apex 

 which bears a small point extending cephalad. In the upper portion of 

 its lateral aspect is a triangular membranous part which seems quite 

 characteristic. Viewed caudally the uncus is narrow at the top, widest 

 just below the middle, and its lower margin has a small median emargina- 

 tion. The last ventral segment of the male is nearly as long as broad, 



