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ing an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than 

 twice its length; second much curved, slanting, forming a slightly 

 obtuse angle, much shorter than the first : third very slightly waved, 

 slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth curved, slanting, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth curved, nearly 

 upright, forming an acute angle. Body tawny, short, broad, clothed 

 with paler hairs : head hardly narrower than the fore-chest ; crown 

 adorned with an irregular black band which incloses the eyelets ; 

 face very slightly convex, adorned in front with a black stripe : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching beyond the middle-hips : eyes pro- 

 minent: feelers dark tawny : scutcheon of the fore-chest tinged with 

 green: hind-scutcheon green, forming on each side a very obtuse 

 angle, having three very shallow excavations on the hind border : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two black curved marks 

 which taper from the fore border; hind border tinged with green, 

 rather slightly excavated: abdomeii almost linear till near the tip, 

 shorter than the chest ; hind borders of the segments tinged with 

 green : opercula none ; drums tawny, not far apart, nearly half the 

 length of the abdomen : legs tawny, clothed with paler hairs ; lips 

 of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two stout tawny teeth : 

 wings colourless, bright grass-green near the base, dark tawny along 

 the fore border ; veins dark tawny ; a tawny tinge on the hind- 

 wings near the base which is tawny. Length of the body 15 lines; 

 of the wings 45 lines. 



"'^15. FiDICINA OPALIXA. 



Fidicina opalina, Amyot et Sew. Hist. Nat. Hem. 472, 2. 

 O Cicada opalina. Germ. Thon, Arch. ii. 2, 52. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 

 57, 3. 

 a. Brazil. Presented by J. Gr. Children, Esq. 

 h — d Brazil. 



16. Fidicina atrata. 



OTettigonia atrata, Fahr. Syst. Ent. 681, 15. Sp. Ins. ii. 321, 18. 



Mant. his. ii. 267, 22. Ent. Syst. iv. 24, 28. Syst. Rhyn. 42, 



44. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 3, 2098, 80. 

 :7 Cicada atrata, Germ. Thon, Arch. ii. 2, 55. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 68, 



30. 

 :" Cicada nigra, Oliv. Enc. Meth v. 750, 17. pi. Ill, f. 5. >SW/, 



Czc. 84, pi. 22, f. 118. 

 . Cicada atra, Signoret, Rev. Zool. 1849, 406, 1, pi. 10, f. 1. 



a — g China. 



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