LIST OF HOMOPTEROrs INSECTS. 79 



forming a slightly acute angle. Body black, dark feiTUginous be- 

 neath : head as broad as the fore-chesr, adorned with a tawny stripe 

 which is interrupted and forms three parts of a circle in the middle ; 

 just behind it and adjoining the eyes are two large tawny spots ; face 

 conical, prominent, deep ferruginous: mouth black, ferruginous at 

 the base, reaching the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers black : 

 scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with three tawny spots, the 

 middle one club-shaped, the side pair nearly oval ; hind-scutcheon 

 dark ferruginous, its sides hardly angular : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest adorned with six tawny marks, the middle pair very small, the 

 next pair nearly conical, the outer pair longer ; hind border dark 

 ferruginous, slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, longer than 

 the chest, clothed with ferruginous hairs : legs ferruginous ; shanks 

 darker than the thighs ; feet black ; fore-thighs armed with three 

 tawny teeth : wings more iridescent than usual, adorned with blue 

 and purple lustre, brown and tawny and marked with black at the 

 base ; veins bright tawny ; longitudinal veins towards the lips and 

 cross-veins clouded with brown ; flaps tinged with brown, bright 

 pale red towards the base. Length of the body 21 lines; of the 

 wings 60 lines. 



a—f. New Holland. 



C 2. FiDICINA MAXNIFEIU. 



^Tettigonia mannifera, Fahr. Syst. Rhyn. 36, 13. S toll, Cic. 88, 



pi. 23, f. 126.'. 

 <^ Cicada mannifera, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 56, 1. Burm. Handh. 



Ent. ii. 1, 183, 8. Blanch. Hist. Ins. iii. 167, 15. 

 ^Cicada cantatrix ? Germ. Thon, Arch. ii. 2, 5, 36, 51. 



a. Brazil. Presented by J. G. Children Esq. 

 6, c. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay's collection. 

 d — y Brazil. 



3. FiDIClNA RECTA, Fem. 



Nervus iransversiis \ us fere rectus, valde ohliquus, anyulum perob- 

 tiisum fingeyis, 2<) fere triplb ejus lonyitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, valde ohliquus, angulum perobtusum jingens, \i 

 dimidio vix longior ; 3us undatus, subobliquus, angulum vix 

 acutum Jingens ; AlUS undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum Jin- 

 gens, 'So multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet full seven-eighths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein nearly straight, very oblique, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its 



