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hind border of the middle-chest moderately deep : ahdoraen obcon- 

 ical, a little longer than the chest, ferruginous towards the tip : 

 opercula none ; tymbals white with a tawny ringlet ; drums pale 

 tawny, small, black at the base, but little apart : legs tawny, tinged 

 with green ; feet ferruginous ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore- 

 thighs armed with two tawny teeth of moderate size, one very ob- 

 lique, the other more upright and near the tip : wings colourless, 

 adorned with opaline lustre ; fore border beset with very little black 

 spines, green as far as the brand, pitchy thence towards the tip ; 

 veins tawny, tinged with green, black towards the tips of the fore- 

 wings ; primitive areolet bright tawny ; fore-flaps pale brown ; hind- 

 flaps pale brown at the base and for a space along the hind border. 

 Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



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L?67. Cicada mesochlora, Mas. 



iServus transversus lus eurvus, suhobliquus^ angitlum ohtusum fin- 

 geiis, 2o plus quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us valde 

 eurvus, snbobliqutis, angulum suhohtusum fingens, \o pauUb 

 longior ; 3us fere rectus, ohliqnus, angulum vix acutum fin- 

 gens ; Aus suhcurvus, ohliqnus, angulum suhacutumfingens, 

 3o multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet much more than half the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein curved, slightly slaniinof, forming an obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by more than four times its length ; 

 second murh curved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly obtuse an- 

 gle, a little longer than the first ; third nearly straight, slanting, 

 forming a hardly acute angle; fourth very slightly curved, slanting, 

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

 slightly curved, almost upright, forming a nearly right angle. Bodv 

 tawny, clothed with whitish shining down : head a Utile narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; crown adorned wtih an irregular and inter- 

 rupted black band ; face convex, rather prominent, adorned in front 

 with two black stripes which unite and inclose an oval space and 

 then diverge : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind- 

 hips : eyes prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest 

 tinged with green, adorned in the middle with two slender black 

 nearly parallel stripes ; furrows blackish ; hind-scutcheon green, 

 widened near the base of each fore-wing into a very obtuse and 

 slightly rounded angle whose fore side is twice the length of its hind- 

 side and very slightly excavated : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with four brown stripes ; the inner pair short, obconical,suc- 



