LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 35 



Country unknown. 



Cicada conifacies. 



Foem. Fulva ; caput apud ocellos nigrum ; prothorax nigru bivit- 

 tatus ; mesothorax viridi varius, villa media strigisque duabus 

 lateralibus subarcualis nigris, guttis duabus posticis fuscis ; 

 alee vitrecs ; anticce vents \a 2aque transversis subreclis, fusco 

 ncbulosis. 



Female. Nearly allied to C. Hirundo. Tawny. Head with 

 a black mark about the ocelli ; face prominent, conical, with brown 

 streaks on the lateral furrows. Prothorax with two black stripes, 

 which converge hindward, and are dilated in front; each side with 

 an acute angle in front, and with an obtuse angle hindward. Me- 

 sothorax mostly green, with a slightly curved black streak on each 

 side, and with a black middle stripe ; two brown dots hindward. 

 Wings vitreous ; veins tawny, black towards the tips. Fore wings 

 with the first and second transverse veins clouded with brown, 

 almost straight: first slightly oblique, but not in the usual direction, 

 parted from the second by much more than twice its length ; third 

 and fourth oblique, the third much longer than the fourth. Length 

 of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



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Cicada innotabilis. ^ 



Mas. Fulva, sublus testavea ; prothorax strigis duabus nigrican- 

 tibus, marginis latcribus sat dilatatis ; mesothorax vittis qua- 

 tuor obconicis nigris, exterioribus excavatis ; alee vitrei, venis 

 teslaceis apice nigris ; anticce venis la et 2a obliquis, la sub- 

 recta, 2a longiore arcuata, 3a 4aque reclis. 



Male. Tawny, testaceous beneath. Head almost as broad as 

 the prothorax. Prothorax with a blackish streak on each of 

 the inner furrows ; border somewhat dilated on each side. Meso- 

 thorax with lour black obconical stripes ; the inner pair short ; the 

 outer pair much excavated. Wings vitreous; veins testaceous, 

 black towards the tips. Fore wings narrow ; first and second trans- 

 verse veins oblique ; first nearly straight, shorter than the second, 

 from which it is parted by more than four times its length ; second 

 curved; third and fourth straight; third much shorter than the 

 fourth. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 

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