152 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



forming an acute angle, parted from the second by four times its 

 length ; second very slightly waved, slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, much longer than the first ; third nearly straight, slightly 

 slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth slightly waved, slanting, 

 forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth 

 almost straight, nearly upright, forming a hardly obtuse angle. 

 Body ferruginous, tinged with green : head much narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; face small, very convex, rather prominent : mouth tawny 

 with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : feelers 

 tawny, ferruginous at the base: fore-chest narrower in front than be- 

 hind ; scutcheon adorned with some oblique dark ferruginous marks 

 between the furrows which also have that colour; hind-scutcheon 

 rounded and much widened at the base of each fore-wing, slightly 

 convex and not excavated on each side : hind border of the scutcheou 

 of the middle-chest hardly excavated : abdomen longer than the 

 chest, hairy towards the tip ; oviduct pitchy : legs tawny ; thighs 

 and shanks adorned with ferruginous stripes ; feet ferruginous to- 

 wards the tips; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed 

 with one large ferruginous tooth which is near the tip : wings colour- 

 less ; fore borders and veins tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; 

 of the wings 28 lines. 



a. South America. 



r 91. Cicada Hirl'ndo, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus curvus, subobliquus, angidum obtusum 

 Jingens, 2o plus cluplb ejus longitudine divisiis ; 2iis subcur- 

 vus, obUquus, angulum vatde obtusum Jingens, \o paullb bre- 

 vior ; 3us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fingens ; 

 4ws fere rectus^ obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, 3o 

 multb brevier. 



Second marginal areolet a little more than half the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein curved, slightly slanting, forming an ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, very little shorter than the first; third very slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming a slightly acute angle; fourth almost straight, 

 slanting, forming a very slightly acute angle, much shorter than the 

 third; fifth thick, straight, very slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle. Body short, ferruginous : head a little narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; crown adorned with a square-shaped dark ferruginous 

 spot, on each side of which there is a little pitchy cross, and beyond 

 the latter a dark ferruginous stripe which communicates in front with 



