170 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



Fern. — Abdomen rather longer than the chest, adorned with a 

 large green spot on each side near the tip: oviduct ferruginous. 

 Length of the body 7 — 10 lines ; of the wings 23 — 30 lines. 



n — e. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



(Pll4. Cicada basiflamma, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus transversus \us svhctirvus aut fere rectus^ vix obliquus, an- 

 gulum ohtusutn fingens, 2o plus duplb velplustriplb ejus longi- 

 tudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum 

 fingens^ \o Inngior ; 3 us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum suba- 

 cutum fingens ; Aus subcurvus, obliquus, angulum acutum 

 fingens, 3o nonnunquam longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than three-fourths of the length 

 of the first : first cross-vein nearly straight or slightly curved, 

 slightly slanting or nearly upright, forming an obtuse or slightly 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than twice, or by more 

 than thrice its lenoth ; second slightly curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming- an obtuse, or slightly obtuse angle, longer or much longer 

 than the first ; third nearly straight, slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute 

 angle, as long or longer than the third ; fifth slightly curved, up- 

 right, fonning a hardly acute angle. 



Male. — Body black, dull, thickly clothed with black hairs : 

 head a little narrower than the fore-chest ; face very convex, rather 

 prominent : mouth black, reaching the middle hips : eyes promi- 

 nent: feelers black, stout : furrows of the scutcheon of the fore- 

 chest dark red ; hind -scutcheon narrow, slightly widened near the 

 base of each fore-wing, deeply excavated and forming a tooth on 

 each side : hind border of the scutcheon of the middle-chest dark 

 red, very slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer 

 than the chest; an interrupted red stripe on each side; horn at the 

 tip small : opercula none ; tymbals dark gray ; drums very small, 

 pitchy, with tawny borders, wide apart : legs pitchy ; thighs tawny 

 beneath ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs black with 

 bright tawny stripes, armed with fonr black teeth, three of these 

 large, tawny towards the tips, the fourth very small ; hind-shanks 

 tawmy towards the tips: wings colourless, bright pale tawny and 

 marked with black at the base ; fore border pitchy, dark red at the 

 base ; veins tawny, paler towards the tips, black towards the base ; 

 cross-veins black ; first and second cross-veins and the intermediate 

 longitudinal veins clouded with dark brown ; veins of the hind- 

 wings tawny, black towards the tips ; cross-veins and three of the 



