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black band which is much inten'upted on each side of the eyelets ; 

 face very slightly convex, adorned above with a short broad black 

 band which is interrupted by a triangular tawny spot and is ac- 

 companied by a black spot on each side at the base of the feelers ; 

 furrows partly blackish on each side: mouth tawny with a black 

 tip, extending to the hind border of the drums : feelers tawny, 

 black towards the tips : eyes hardly prominent : fore-chest a liitle 

 narrower in front than behind: scutcheon adorned with four little 

 brown spots, two in front and two behind ; spaces between the 

 furrows partly tawny ; hind-scutcheon of moderate breadth, very 

 slightly excavated in the middle, rounded but hardly widened above 

 the base of each fore-wing, not excavated on each side: scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest adorned with four large obconical tawny stripes, 

 the outer pair about twice the length of the inner pair ; excavation 

 of the hind border moderately deep : abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest : opercula none ; tymbals white, lawny on the 

 inner side; drums small, pale tawny, hardly apart: legs tawny; 

 thighs and hind-shanks mostly green ; lips of the claws black ; fore- 

 thighs armed wilh two tawny teeth of moderate size, the first very 

 oblique : wings colourless ; fore border green, ferruginous beyond 

 the brand, beset with very short ferruginous spines; veins of ihe 

 fore-wings green, of the hind-wings tawny, black towards the tips ; 

 primitive areolet partly tawny ; fore-flaps tawny ; hind-flaps tawny at 

 the base and for a short space along the middle- vein. Length of the 

 body 10 lines; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. 



'^73. Cicada Physcoa, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus curvus, obliquus, angulum valde ohtusum 

 Jingens, '2o plus quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens, li longi- 

 tudine ; 3u,s submidatus, obliquus, angulum vix acutum Jin- 

 gens; 4us subundatus, obliquus^ angulum subacutum Jingens, 

 So paullo longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of the length of 

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

 gle, parted from the second by more tlian fonr times its length ; 

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, as 

 long as the first ; third very slightly waved, slanting, forming a 

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

 slightly acute angle, a little longer than the third ; fifth curved, up- 

 right, forming a slightly acute angle. Body tawny, tinged with 

 green : head nearly as broad as the lore-chest, adorned with a slen- 



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