104 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



buff and bordered with brown towards the base. Length of the body 

 25 lines ; of the wings 65 lines. 



a. 



03. Cicada gigas. 



( icada gigas, Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 750, 15, pi. Ill, f. 4. Stoll, 

 Cic. 84, pi. 22, f. 117. 



. St. Lucia. Presented by W. Muter, Esq. 

 , c. West Indies. 



CP 4. Cicada sonans, Mas. 



NermjLS transversvs lus subundatus valde ohliqims, angulum perob- 

 tusiun fingens, 2o quadruplb ejus longiludine divisus ; '2us 

 subundatus valde obliquus, angulum perohtusum fingens, lo 

 pauLlh longior ; 3us subcurvus, erectus, angulum vix obtu^um 

 Jingens ; 4f<s undatus^ obliquus, angulum subacutumjingens, 

 'So multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet full three-fourths of the length of the 

 first; first cross-vein very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by four times its 

 len^ith ; second very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, a little longer than the first; third slightly 

 curved, upright, forming a hardly obtuse angle ; fourth waved, slant- 

 ing, forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than the third ; 

 fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body 

 tawny : head a little narrower than the fore-chest : crown adorned 

 with a broad irrei>ular curved black band ; a row of little black bands 

 on each side of the face which is very convex: eyes prominent: 

 mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : feelers black : 

 borders and sutures of the scutcheon of the fore-chest black ; hind- 

 scutcheon broad, waved and partly edged with black on each side : 

 middle-chest adorned with seven black stripes, of which the second 

 pair join the middle one and include the inner pair ; hind part of 

 the cross-ridge black ; hind border rather deeply excavated : abdo- 

 men nearly oval, longer than the chest, covered with pale shining 

 down, mostly black above towards the tip : drums small ; tymbals 

 yellow, marked with black: legs tawny, marked with black which is 

 mostly on the fore-legs ; fore-thighs armed with four teeth of various 

 size : wings colourless, their tips very slightly clouded with brown ; 

 veins black ; first and second cross-veins clouded with brown ; pri- 



