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■O 122. Cicada interrupta. 



Aemts transversus lus subcurvus, obliquus, angulum valcU obtu- 

 sum fingens^ 2o plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 curvus, valde obliquus, angulum per obtusum fingens, \o paullb 

 brevior ; 3us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subobtusum fin- 

 gens ; Aus fere rectus, obliquus, angulum ohtusum fingens, 

 3o longior. 



Second marginal areolet full three-fourths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, a little shorter than the first ; third nearly 

 straight, slanting, forming a slightly obtuse angle ; fourth almost 

 straight, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, longer than the third ; 

 fifth very slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute 

 angle. Body pitchy, almost hairless : head a little broader than 

 the fore-chest, adorned with two tawny spots on the hind border near 

 the eyelets ; face very slightly convex, not at all prominent, adorned 

 above with a tawny spot and' in front with a tawny stripe : mouth 

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

 feelers black : fore-chest rather short, tawny, with pitchy spots on 

 each side of the furrows ; hind-scutcheon tawny along the hind bor- 

 der, extending at the base of each fore-wing beyond the sides of 

 the scutcheon, slightly serrated and hardly convex on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle- chest ferruginous along each side, adorned 

 with one ferruginous and two tawny stripes, the latter are straight 

 and longer than the former ; cross-ridge tawny ; hind border slightly 

 excavated": abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, ferruginous 

 beneath ; hind borders of the segments ferruginous : opercula very 

 small, partly covering the tymbals which are tawny ; drums rather 

 small, pitchy, hardly apart : legs pitchy ; knees and tips of the 

 hips tawny ; shanks and feet ferruginous ; claws ferruginous with 

 black tips ; fore-thighs striped with tawny, armed with three teeth, 

 one large and oblique, one of moderate size, and one very small : 

 wiufis colourless, long and narrow, yellow at the base and along the 

 fore border ; veins yellow, tawny towards the base and towards the 

 tips, black at the tip of the primitive areolet, and at the base of the 

 first, second and third discoidal areolets ; a slender zigzag brown 

 band extends from near the tip where it embraces the first marginal 

 areolet, and clouds the cross-veins from the first to the fourth, it is 

 there interrupted but appears again on the fifth ; fore-flaps pale tawny ; 

 veins of the hind-wings yellow ; flaps pale tawny at the base, for a 



