168 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



f^lll. Cicada viridula, Mas. 



Nervus transversus 2us rectu/;, subobliquus^ angulum rectum 

 jingens ; 3us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum rectum Jingens, 2o 

 longior ; Aus rectus, valde obliquus, angulum rectum Jingens, 

 3o multb longior. 



Second cross-vein straight, slightly slanting, forming a right 

 angle ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming a right angle, 

 longer than the second ; fourth straight, very slanting, forming a 

 right angle, much longer than the third ; fifth straight, slightly 

 slanting, fonning a hardly acute angle. Body slender, bright vel- 

 vet}^ green, thinly clothed with golden hairs, as hroad as the fore- 

 chest ; face very convex and prominent : mouth tawTiy with a black 

 tip, reaching the middle hips : eyes prominent : feelers pitchy at 

 the base : fore-chest hardly narrower in front than behind ; scutcheon 

 adorned on each side with a very large tawny spot ; hind-scutcheon 

 narrow^ in the middle, W'idened and extending a little beyond the 

 scutcheon near the base of each fore-wing, nearly straight on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle chest adorned with a large tawny 

 spot on each side, its. hind border not excavated : abdomen tawny, 

 slightly obconical, not longer than the chest, pale tawny near the 

 base which is pitchy, mostly green on the disk and having a pitchy 

 band near the tip which is hairy : opercula none ; tymbals pale 

 tawny ; drums black, small, not far apart : legs pale tawny ; fore- 

 legs darker ; fore-thighs armed with four stout teeth ; middle and 

 hind-shanks pale green ; tips of the claw^s black : wings colourless, 

 tinged with brown at the tips ; fore border pale tawny : brands 

 darker, large ; veins dark tawny, black towards the tips ; fore-flaps 

 pale tawny ; hind-flaps pale tawny at the base and along some part 

 of the hind border ; the disk of this part is pale brown, and it has a 

 dark brown spot at the base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. 



0ll2. Cicada cingulata. 



Cicada cingulata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 752, 26. Gmel. Ed. Syst. 

 Nat.i. 3,2096,76. 

 '{^Tettigonia cingulata, Fabr. Syst. JSnt. 680, 9. Sp. Ins. ii. 320, 10. 

 Mant. Ins. li. 266, 11. 



a—f. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 

 g. New Zealand. From M. Pelerin's collection. 



