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broad black stripe which embraces the region of the eyelets, and has 

 two black spots on each side, and a short black stripe in front of the 

 two spots ; face convex, not prominent, adorned with two black 

 spots above, and with one near the mouth ; the latter is tawny with 

 a black tip and extends to the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers 

 black, adorned with a tawny band : fore-chest a little narrower in 

 front than behind ; disk of the scutcheon adorned with two black 

 parallel stripes which are widened into triangles before and behind ; 

 a short curved black mark on each side between the furrows which 

 are blackish ; hind-scutcheon rather narrow in the middle, paler, 

 widened, extending much beyond the scutcheon and adorned with 

 two large pitchy spots by the base of each fore-wing, a little exca- 

 vated on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with five 

 black stripes ; middle one oblauceolate, inner pair very narrow in 

 the middle ; outer pair much excavated ; hind border hardly exca- 

 vated : abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest, adorned on 

 each side aliove and beneath with a row of pitchy spots ; last seg- 

 ment slender, compressed, adorned with pitchy stripes: oviduct 

 black: legs tawny; tips of the feet pitchy ; claws tawny with black 

 tips; fore-thighs with pitchy teeth, armed with three black teeth, 

 two large, and one small : wings slightly tinged with tawny ; veins 

 yellow with some black bands in the middle part, tawny thence to- 

 wards the tips which are black ; longitudinal veins from the middle 

 to the tips beset with numerous little knobs, these are much like the 

 knob on the lower vein of the fourth discoidal areolet, but many of 

 them are rather larger ; fore-flaps pale bufl"; veins of the hind-wings 

 black with a very few slight indications of knobs ; first and second 

 veins tawny ; flaps pale bufi" at the base and for a space along 

 the hind border, tinged with pale brown along the fore border. 

 Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 29 lines. 



^107. Cicada Terminus, Fern. 



Nervus transversus \us fere rectus^ fere erectus^ angulum subobtu- 

 sumfingens,2o plus qtiadruplo ejus longitudine divisiis ; Qus 

 fere rectus, subobliquus, angulum fere rectum fitigens, li lon- 

 gitudine ; 3us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; 

 4u5 vix undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o multb 

 longior. 



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

 first : first cross-vein almost straight, nearly upright, forming a 



