■128 ^Ir. ^V. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



panal coverings about as long as broaJ ; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior coxse, its apex piceous ; opcrcula with their outer 

 mar£?ins nearly straight, ihcir posterior margins strongly 

 oblique and rounded apically, reaching the third abdominal 

 segment, their inner angles not meeting. 



Lono-., excl. tcgm., ^ ? 19-20 mm. ; exp. tegm. 61-69 mm. 



Jlah. ? (Types, c? ?, Brit. Mus.) ^, ^ ^ . 



Two specimens, male and female, presented by Dr. fewale 

 to the British Museum, but without locality, constitute the 

 material on which this species is founded. The figure given 

 will, however, prevent confusion. It probably belongs to 

 Central America. 



Genus Cicada {arde, p. 330). 



Cicmla, Linn. Svst. Nat. i. p. 704 (1706). 



Cicada, siibi^en! Chremistica, StEl (part.), (Efv. Vet.-Ak. F5rh. 13/0, 



p. 714, note. 

 Cicada, subgen. Cicada, Stal (part), he. cit. 

 Cicada, subgen. Diceroprocta, Stal (part.), he. cit. 



Type, C. pJebeja, Scop. 



Cicada gram in en J sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax above grassy green ; pronotum in- 

 clining to ochraceous, probably through discoloration ; head 

 with the basal lateral areas of face, a transverse fascia between 

 anterior margins of eyes, basal margin, and the area of the 

 ocelli jiurplish brown ; mesonotum with two central lines 

 (united anteriorly and posteriorly) and the incisures purplish 

 brown; mesonotum with two anterior, central, short, obconical 

 spots, on each side of which is a much longer and more 

 elongate spot, a central, discal, lanceolate spot, and a spot in 

 front of each anterior angle of the cruciform elevation purplish 

 brown,outwardly margined with greenish ochraceous; abdomen 

 above somewhat thickly greyishly tomentose; body beneath 

 and legs more ochraceous than above, abdomen with some 

 central discal transverse and some siiblateral much smaller 

 purplish-brown spots; tegmina and wings hyaline, the costal 

 membrane and venation of basal area of tegmina greenish, 

 remaining venation fuscous ; venation of wings greenish. 



Head truncate in front, its length half the breadth between 

 eyes and (including eyes) as wide as base of mesonotum ; 

 anterior femora armed beneath with two strong spines; poste- 

 rior tibije with three spines placed on each side on apical 

 halves; rostrum not quite reaching posterior coxse. 

 Long , excl. tegm., 26 mm. ; exp. tegm. 85 mm. 

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



