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and short, a little broader than the fore-chest ; face slightly convex, 

 not at all prominent : feelers and mouth black ; the latter reaching 

 to the middle-hips : sides of the fore-chest forming very obtuse an- 

 gles near the fore-wings, thence straight for a space, afterwards ab- 

 ruptly widened, and lastly slightly convex to the fore border ; furrows 

 dark ferruginous ; hind-scutcheon rather broad, ferruginous with the 

 exception of the border : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with 

 four ferruginous stripes ; the side pair communicating with two small 

 ferruginous spots, rather in advance of the middle pair, which are 

 nearly straight ; hind border ferruginous, its excavation rather broad 

 but very shallow: abdomen obconical, hardly longer than the chest, 

 adorned on each side with a very large white patch which occupies 

 the sides of the segments from the second to the fifth ; under side 

 with a very broad ferruginous stripe on each side : opercula pitchy, 

 close, rather large ; drums tawny, very large, slightly overlapping, 

 much more than half the length of the abdomen, nearly triangular, 

 tapering much towards the tips : legs black; thighs with ferruginous 

 stripes ; shanks ferruginous with black tips ; fore-thighs armed with 

 two long teeth : wings colourless, dark brown at the base, tinged 

 with green from thence to the middle of the fore-wings, clouded with 

 brown at the tips of the veins of all the wings; first and second 

 cross-veins clouded with dark brown ; veins bright green, black to- 

 wards the tips ; veins of the hind-wings very pale green for a space 

 before the black tips; flaps of the hind-wings colourless, brown at 

 the base and along the borders. Length of the body 20 lines ; of 

 the wings 62 lines. 



a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



5. FiDICINA ACUTA. 



Cicada acuta, Signoret, Rev. ZooL 1849, 409, 4, pi. 10, f. 3, 3a. 

 F. nivifera may be a variety of this species. 



^ 6. FiDICINA picEA, Fem. 



Nerims transversus Ins curvus, valde ohliquus, angulum perob- 

 tusum fin gens, '2o triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, 

 valde obliquus, angulum perobtiisiim fiJigens, \i longitudine; 

 3us iindatus obliquus, anguhnn acv.tum JiJigens ; 4us undatus, 

 obliquus, angulum acuturn fingens, 3o multo longior. 



Second marginal areolet about five-sixths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein curved, very slanting, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by thrice its length ; second 

 curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, as long 



