140 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



hind-hips: eyes prominent : feelers black : fore-chest rather short : 

 scutcheon adorned with two parallel black stripes which are united 

 on the fore border and on the hind border ; inner furrows blackish ; 

 hind-scutcheon widened and forming an obtuse angle at the base of 

 each fore-wing, not excavated but nearly straight on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four black obconical 

 stripes, the inner pair much shorter than the outer pair, united at 

 the base, succeeded by two black spots which are close to the cross- 

 ridge ; hind border rather deeply excavated : abdomen pale ferru- 

 ginous, obconical, very little longer than the chest ; a broad black 

 band adjoining the fore border of each segment from the first to the 

 fifth ; under side of the last segment adorned with a black middle 

 stripe and with a large tawny spot on each side : oviduct pitchy ; 

 legs tawny ; claws above partly black ; fore-thighs armed with one 

 long tawny tooth : wings colourless ; veins ]»lack, tawny towards the 

 base ; fore border tawny as far as the brand, pitchy from thence to- 

 wards the tip ; a yellow spot a little beyond the brand which is pitchy ; 

 primitive areolet pale tawny : fore-membrane pale brown ; flaps 

 brown at the base, along the fore border, and along the black middle- 

 vein. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a. ? 



V 78. Cicada Lucastia, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, obliguus^ angulum obtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o plus quadrupld ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, 

 valde obliquiis, angulum valde obtusum fingens^ \o longior ; 

 ^us fere rectus, obliqims, angulum subacutum fingens ; 4us 

 subundatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o multb lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet about two-thirds of the length of the 

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

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

 length ; second curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, 

 longer than the first ; third nearly straight, slanting, forming a 

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

 an acute angle, very much longer than the third ; fiith curved, nearly 

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body ferruginous, tawny 

 and powdered with white beneath ; head nearly as broad as the fore- 

 chest, adorned with a very broad irregular black band which 

 sends forth branches round the eyes and to the hind border ; face 

 slightly convex, not at all prominent, adorned with a broad black 

 band ; furrows in front black : mouth tawny with a black tip, reach- 



