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short spines ; veins pale red, black towards the tips ; first and second 

 cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of small brown spots on the 

 tips of the longitudinal veins or the marginal areolets ; primitive 

 areolet tinged with pale tawny ; fore-flaps pale green ; veins of the 

 hind-wings pale green, black towards the tips : flaps whitish at the 

 base, clouded with pale brown along the fore border. Length of 

 the body 9 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



a. Cuba. 



C^85. Cicada subtincta, Fem. 



Ne7'vus transversus \us subcurvus, subnbliqnus, angulum siibobtu- 

 sum Jinyens^lo triplbeju/i longitudine divisus ; '2us suhcurvHs, 

 obliquus, augnlum obtusiim Jingens, M longitudine ; Sus un- 

 datiis, valde obliquus, angulum acutuni fingena ; Aus subcurvus, 

 subnbliquus, angulum rectum Jingens, 3o muhb brevior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly seven-eighths of the length of 

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

 forming a very slightly obtuse angle, parted from the second by thrice 

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

 angle, as long as the fii-st ; third waved, very slanting, forming an 

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

 a right angle, very much shorter than the third ; fifth straight, slight- 

 ly slanting, forming an obtuse angle. Body rather short and broad : 

 head pitchy above, narrower than the fore-chest, with two green 

 reversed C-shaped marks approaching each other on the region of 

 the eyelets; face convex, green, with a large black spot near the 

 base of the mouth which is tawny with a black tip, and reaches be- 

 yond the hind-hips: eyes prominent: fore-chest green ; disk of the 

 scutcheon mostly tawny ; fore border and hind border black ; hind- 

 scnicheon green, tawny along the fore border, adorned with two 

 brown spots, slightly notched and armed with an extremely small 

 tooth on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest green, tinged with 

 tawny, adorned with irregular black stripes, part of which commu- 

 nicate with a large transverse black spot on the hind part ; hind 

 border slightly excavated : breast green mingled with tawny : abdo- 

 men ferruginous, hardly longer than the chest ; hind borders of the 

 segments black : legs greenish-black ; tips of the shanks, of the 

 feet and of the fore-thighs black ; claws black, tawny towards the 

 base : fore-thighs armed with two acute teeth ; spines of the hind- 

 shanks black : wings colourless, brown at the base ; a very slight 

 brown tinge at the tips of the fore-wings ; veins tawnv with broad 



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