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first, second and third cross-veins clouded with brown. Length of 

 the body 12 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a, h. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 

 c — e. Jamaica. 



^ 87. Cicada Johannis, Mas et Fera. 



Nervus trans versus Ins subciirvus, obliquus, ancfulum obtusion 

 jingens, 2n plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; '2us subcur- 

 rus, subobliquus, angulum obtusion fingens, \o paullb brevior ; 

 3us subundatus, obliquus, angulum s ubacu turn Jin gens ; 4us 

 curvus, fere erectus, angulum vix acutumjingens. Si longitu- 

 dine. 



Second marginal areolet more than half the length of the first : 

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

 parted from the second by a little more than twice its length ; second 

 slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, a little 

 shorter than the tirst ; third slightly waved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, nearly upright, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth almost straight, up- 

 right, forming a right angle. Much resembles C. Orni but is smaller. 

 Body grass-green with a tawny tinge : head narrower than the fore- 

 chest, adorned with two black bauds, one in front interrupted, ir- 

 regular and slightly arched, the other behind sending back Ave short 

 stripes, the middle one forked between the eyelets ; face slightly con- 

 vex, not prominent: mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the 

 hind-hips: eyes prominent: feelers black: fore-chest narrower in 

 front; scutcheon adorned with two oblique brown stripes on each 

 side, and in the middle with two straight black stripes, widened in 

 front and sending out two branches on each side ; hind-scutcheon 

 widened and slightly angular on each side, adorned with two 

 brown marks above the base of each fore-wing : scutcheon of the 

 middle-chest adorned with five brown stripes, the side pairs in- 

 terrupted, especially the outer pair ; hind border very slightly 

 excavated : abdomen tawny, very much longer than the chest ; 

 a brown mark on each side of the base of the la^t segment ; tip 

 black: opercula large; drums pale tawny, small, far apart: legs 

 grass-green, clothed with short pale yellow and black hairs ; claws 

 black, pale green at the base ; fore-thighs armed with three black 

 teeth with tawny tips ; a few tawny spines on the hind-shanks : wings 

 colourless ; fore border green : veins pale green, darker towards the 

 tips, striped with black at the base, tinged with black across the 

 breadth beneath the brand which is green towards the base and black 



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