166 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



Ol09. Cicada Cuna, Mas. 



Nervus transversus Iw.s subundalus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum 

 Jiiigens, 2o plusquam ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us rectus^ 

 subobliquus, angulum rectum jingens, \i vix dimidii longitu- 

 dine ; Sus vix curvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; 

 4us subcurvus, subobliquus, unguium, vix acutum Jingetis, 3t 

 longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet very much longer than the first : first 

 cross-v^ein very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an acute an- 

 gle, parted from the second by much more than its length ; second 

 straight, slightly slanting, forming a right angle, hardly half the 

 length of the first ; third very indistinctly curved, slanting, fonning 

 a slightly acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, forming a hardly 

 acute angle, less slanting than the third, which it equals in length ; 

 fifth straight, upright, forming a right angle. Body tawny, very slen- 

 der: head nearly as broad as the chest, adorned with three black spots 

 which encircle the eyelets, and beneath with two black spots on each 

 side of the face ; the latter is broad, very convex, not prominent, adorn- 

 ed on each side with a black spot at the base of the feeler : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes prominent : 

 feelers black : fore-chest a little narrower in front than behind ; 

 scutcheon adorned with a yellow stripe, on each side of which are 

 three black stripes, the inner pair are curved and interrupted, the 

 other four are oblique and much excavated ; hind-scutcheon narrow 

 in the middle, rounded, much widened and adorned with a pitchy 

 spot above the base of each fore-wing, slightly excavated on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle chest mostly yellow, on which colour 

 the usual four obconical stripes are indistinctly traced in a ferruginous 

 hue, the inner pair much shorter than the outer j)air, and succeeded 

 by a ferruginous spot which rests on the cross-ridge ; hind border 

 slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the 

 chest ; horn large, with a pitchy tip : opercula none ; tymbals pale 

 tawny ; drums very small, pale yellow : legs tawny ; thighs mostly 

 yellow ; tips of the feet ferruginous ; claws ferruginous, with black 

 tips ; fore-thighs armed with four black teeth, three of these are 

 rather large and one small : wings colourless, long, narrow; a slight 

 tawny tinge towards the tips of the fore-wings, where there is a 

 small brown spot ; fore border yellow as far as the brand, tawny from 

 thence towards the tip ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; fore- 

 flaps gray, with a black vein along the fore border ; hind-flaps gray 



