138 LIST OF HOMOPTEKOUS INSECTS. 



vated, and contain several small black spots ; hind-scutcheon adorned 

 along the hind border with a greenish tawny band which is inter- 

 rupted at the base of each fure-wing, rather narrow in the middle, 

 slightly waved along the hind border, much widened and almost 

 angular near the base of each fore-wing, slightly indented on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with several tawny 

 marks ; a middle pair curved and widened at one end ; a net-work 

 mark on each side, and an oblique stripe near each side of the chest; 

 two tawny spots above the cross-ridge which is tawny and has a pitchy 

 spot in the middle ; hind border tawny, very slightly excavated : 

 breast tawny : abdomen pitchy, obconical, a little longer than the 

 chest : opercula large, close, reddish-pitchy ; drums pale yellow, 

 large, triangular, more than half the length of the abdomen : legs 

 tawny ; thighs striped beneath with pale yellow ; claws black, tawny 

 at the base; fore -thighs armed with two tawny teeth of moderate 

 size ; fore-shanks and fore-feet pitchy ; hind-shanks and hind-feet 

 pale yellow : wings colourless; fore border green, tinged with tawny 

 as far as the brand, pitchy from thence towards the tip ; brands 

 pitchy ; veins black, tawny and green towards the base ; first and 

 second cross-veins slightly clouded with brown ; fore-flaps grayish 

 brown ; hind-flaps grayish brown at the base and along the veins. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by J. Taylor, Esq. 



*^76. Cicada diupsilon. Fern. 



Nei'vus transversus lus subcurvus, suhnhliquua, angulum valde ob- 

 tusum fingens, 2o plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 curvus^ obliquus, angulum obtusum Jingens, lo brevior; 3us 

 fere rectus, obliquus, angulum fere rectum fingens ; 4us sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, angulum fere rectum fingens, 3o longior. 



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

 the first : first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slanting, form- 

 ing a very obtuse angle, parted Irom the second by much more than 

 twice its length; second very slightly curved, slanting, forming an 

 obtuse angle, shorter than the first; third nearly straight, slanting, 

 forming a nearly right angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, form- 

 ing an almost right angle, longer than the third; fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body tawny : head 

 narrower than ihe fore-chest; crown black with the exception of two 

 slender irregular lawny bands, one on the fore border, the other on 

 the hind border; these bands are here and there widened into small 

 spots; face convex, not prominent, with a yellow spot and partly 



