172 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



116. Cicada Cutora, Fem, 



Nervus transversus \us curvus, erectus, ang,ulum rectum fingens^ 2o 

 plus quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, suhohli- 

 quus, angulum obtusum Jingens, lo rnultb longior ; 3iis sub- 

 curvuSj obliquus, angulum rectum Jingens ; 4m5 rectus, angulum 

 subacutum Jingens^ 3o ohliquior et multo longior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly as long as the first : first cross- 

 vein curved, upright, forming a right angle, parted from the second 

 by much more than four times its length ; second curved, slightly 

 slanting, forming an obtuse angle, much longer than the first; 

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

 straight, forming a slightly acute angle, more slanting and much 

 longer than the third ; fifth nearly straight, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly obtuse angle. Body green, tinged with tawny : head 

 much narrower than the chest, adorned with a short black band be- 

 tween the face and the eyelets ; face slightly convex, not at all 

 prominent: mouth tawny ; eyes not prominent: feelers black : fore- 

 chest narrower in front than behind ; scutcheon adorned with two 

 pale green slender parallel stripes which are close together ; hind- 

 scutcheon narrow in the middle, rounded and much widened above 

 the base of the fore-wing, slightly convex and not excavated on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with three broad tawny 

 oblique stripes, the side pair longer than the middle one; hind bor- 

 der hardly excavated ; abdomen obconical, longer than the chest : 

 oviduct ferruginous, its tip black and serrated ; legs tawny ; thighs 

 green, fore-thighs armed with three tawny black-tipped teeth, two 

 long, one small : wings colourless ; fore border red, pitchy towards 

 the tip ; veins lawny, black towards the tips ; fore-flaps pale tawny ; 

 hind-flaps tinged with green at the base and along the middle-vein, 

 tinged with brown along the fore border. Length of the body 10 

 lines ; of the wings 27 lines. 



a 



17. Cicada MELANOpyGiA. 



Cicada melanopygia, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 59, 9. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 

 b—f. New Holland. 



