102 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



CTGenus 12. CICADA. 

 Cicada, Linnaus, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 473, 374. 



^1. Cicada adusta, Mas. 



Nervus tramversus I tis rectus suboblirjuiis, an giihnn obtiisum fin- 

 gens, 2o plus quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcur- 

 vus, obliquns, angulum valde obttisum Jin gens, lo multb bre- 

 viar ; Sus fere rectus, obliquus, anguluni vix acutum Jingens ; 

 4us subcurvus, subobliqutis, angulum vix obtusum fingens, 3o 

 brevior. 



Second marginal areolet much more than two-thirds of the 

 length of the first: first cross-vein straight, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing an obtuse angle, parted from the second hy more than four times 

 its length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, much shorter than the first; third almost straight, slanting, 

 forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slightly slant- 

 ing, forming a hardly obtuse angle, shorter than the third; fifth 

 slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. 

 Body tawny, darker here and there : head narrower than the fore- 

 chest, pitchy about the eyelets : face very convex, not very promi- 

 nent, adorned in front with two l)road ferruginous stripes: mouth 

 ferruginous with a black tip, reaching the hind-shanks: eyes very 

 prominent: feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with 

 two pitchy forked stripes proceeding from the fore border and slightly 

 converging, behind them there are two triangular pitchy marks ; 

 hind border of the hiud-scuicheon pitcliy, its sides convex, each 

 armed with a tooth : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with 

 two nearly triangular pitchy spots, and on each side of these with a 

 longer interrupted pitchy mark; four pitchy spots in a cross-row 

 near the hind tiorder which is very slightly excavated : abdomen ob- 

 conical, pale ferruginous, a little longer than the chest, slightly com- 

 pressed at the tip: drums very small, dark tawny, far apart: legs 

 dark tawny, rather hairy ; tips of the shanks, fore-feet and middle- 

 feet pitchy; tips of the claws black; fore-thighs armed with two 

 sharp teeth of moderate size : wings colourless, tawny at the base 

 and along the fore border ; on the fore-wings an almost impercep- 

 tible tawny tinge which is most apparent on the disks of the areolels 

 towards the tips ; first cross-vein clouded with brown ; a brown spot 

 on each of the second, third and fourth cross-veins : a row of brown 

 spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolels ; 



