126 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



an acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth curved, almost 

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body broad, dark tawny : 

 head and fore-chest dull green : head broad, very little narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; face very slightly convex: mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers tawny 

 at the base: fore-chest broadest in the middle ; two very small pitchy 

 dots on the hind border of the scutcheon ; hind scutcheon broad, 

 very convex and beset with short pitchy bristles on each side where 

 it quickly decreases in breadth towards the lore border : some pitchy 

 but very indistinct traces of the usual obconical marks on the scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest ; hind border tinged with green, rather 

 deeply excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; 

 last segment long and narrow like a short tail, adorned with two 

 pitchy slightly curved stripes extending half the length from the 

 base ; horn at the tip ferruginous : oviduct ferruginous; legs tawy, 

 thighs tinged with green ; feet ferruginous ; claws black, ferrugi- 

 nous towards the base ; fore-thighs near the tip armed with a tawny 

 tooth of moderate size : wings colourless ; fore border tawny, tinged 

 with green as far as the brand, pitchy from thence towards the tip ; 

 veins tawny, tinged with green in the fore-wings, black towards the 

 tips ; primitiv^e areolet partly tinged with green ; fore-flaps gray ; 

 hind-wings pale brown at the base. Length of the body 16 lines; 

 of the wings 45 lines. 



a, ? Presented bv Sir E. Belcher. 



^64. Cicada spinicosta, Mas et Fem. 



Nervufi transversus Ins subcnrvus, valde ohliqiius^ angulum peroh- 

 tusumjingenft, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us suhcur- 

 VW9, valde ohliquus angulum perobtusum Jingens, H longitu- 

 dine ; 3us fere rectus, suhobliquus, angulum vix acutum 

 Jingens ; Aus fere rectus, obliquus, angulum sub acutum fin - 

 gens, 3o longior. 



Second marginal areolet a little more than three-fourths of the 

 length of the first : first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slant- 

 ing, forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by 

 thrice its lengtli ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, as long as the first ; third almost straight, 

 slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth almost 

 straight, forming a slightly acute angle, longer and more slanting 

 than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a slightly acute angle. 

 Allied to C. Serricosta, but has no black on the chest. 



Male. — Body olive-green, short and broad, partly clothed with 



