48 LIST or aOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



*^7. DUNDUBIA VARIANS. 



MDicada varians, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 59, 10. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



^ 8. DuNDUBIA LINEARIS, MaS. 



Nervus transversus ]us valde curvus, vix obliquus, angulum rec- 

 tum fingens, 2o plus dwplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, angulum obtusumJingens,lo vix brevior ; 3us 

 valde curvus, obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens : 4us curvus, 

 subohliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, 3o brevior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly seven-eighths. of the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein very much curved, hardly slanting, forming 

 a right angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its 

 length : second slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 nearly as long as the first; third very much curved in its fore part, 

 slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming a very slightly acute angle, shorter than the third ; fifth 

 nearly straight, forming a slightly obtuse angle. Body tawny be- 

 neath : head and chest pitchy ; head and fore-chest adorned with 

 indistinct tawny marks, which are mostly along the sutures : head 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; face convex, rather prominent, pitchy 

 towards the mouth ; the latter tawny with a black tip, reaching the 

 hind borders of the drums: eyes prominent: feelers black: fore- 

 chest broadest at the base of the fore-wings ; scutcheon adorned 

 with six pale tawny stripes which proceed from the fore border to 

 the disk ; hind-scutcheon much widened on each side, which is slightly 

 concave in the middle part, slightly convex before and behind : hind 

 border of the scutcheon of the middle-chest slightly excavated : 

 breast green : abdomen ferruginous, nearly linear till towards the 

 tip, where it is conical, about twice the length of the chest ; sutures 

 of the segments Idack: opercula dark ferruginous; drums green, 

 rather large, hardly apart : legs tawny ; fore-thighs armed with two 

 sharp tawny teeth : tips of the feet and of the claws black : wings 

 with an indistinct tawny tinge, slightly coloured with green, pale 

 brown and marked with black ut the base ; fore border greenish ; 

 cross-veins clouded with brown : a row of small brown spots on the 

 tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets ; veins adorned 

 with alternate black and pale yellow bands ; veins of the hind-wings 

 tawny ; cross-veins darker ; flaps pale brown at the base. Length 

 of the body 22 lines ; of the wings 56 lines. 



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