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scutcheon of moderate breadth, slightly widened on each side where 

 it is abruptly truncated : hind border of the middle-chest excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest : legs tawny ; fore- 

 thighs armed with three small teeth : wings colourless ; veins tawny, 

 partly green, black towards the tips; primitive areolet and flaps at 

 the base pale tawny. Length of the body 11 — 12 lines; of the 

 wings 33 — 34 lines. 



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

 c. Cayenne. 



^60. Cicada, viridifemue, Mas. 



Nervus transversus ]us subcurvus, obliqnus^ angulum valdc obtii- 

 sum fingens, 2o plus Iriplb ejus longitudine divisus ; '2us 

 suhciirvus, obliquHs, angulum vatde obtusum fingens, lopaullo 

 brevior ; 3us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; 

 Aus undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens, 3o multb lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet as long as three-fourths of the first : 

 first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, parted from the second by much more than thrice its length ; 

 second slightly curved, slanting, forminga very obtuse angle, a little 

 shorter than the first ; third almost straight, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle ; fourth waved, slanting, forming an acute an- 

 gle, much longer than the third; fifth curved, upright, forming a 

 slightly acute angle. Body green, more or less tinged with tawny., 

 partly covered with pale down, powdered beneath with white : head 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; crown adorned with a more or less in- 

 terrupted black band; face convex, with a row of little black bands 

 on each side "• eyes not prominent: mouth lawny with a black tip 

 reaching a little beyond the hind-hips : feelers black : sutures of the 

 fore-chest blackish ; hind-scutcheon slightly rounded and widened 

 on each side : middle-chest adorned with four stripes, the outer pair 

 ferruginous, black at the base, longer than the inner pair which are 

 black ; hind border rather deeply excavated : abdomen obconical, 

 a little longer than the chest; fore border of the segments black : 

 drums small : opercula partly white : legs bright green ; thighs 

 striped with black ; feet and tips of shanks pitchy ; fore-thighs armed 

 with two teeth of moderate size : wings colourless ; fore border green 

 at the base, tawny for near half the length, black with the excep- 

 tion of a vvhite band from thence towards the tip ; veins black, tawny 

 or green towards the base; primitive areolet partly brown ; fore-flaps 



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