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very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle, longer than 

 the third ; fifth slii;htly curved, upright, forming a right angle. 

 Body black, narrow : head nearly as broad as the lore-chest ; a very 

 small tawny spot between the eyelets ; face convex, not prominent, 

 adorned in front with a tawny border : mouth tawny with a black 

 tip, reaching the hind-hips : feelers black : eyes rather prominent : 

 fore-chest very little narrower before than behind ; scutcheou adorned 

 with six red stripes, the middle pair slightly curved, narrower than 

 the other four, of which the outer pair are nearly triangular ; hind- 

 scutcheon wrinkled, narrow, rounded, slightly widened and reddish 

 on the hind border above the base of each fore-wing, much indented 

 and armed with a stout tooth on each side : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest dark red on each side and on the hind border which is slightly 

 excavated: abdomen obconical, longer than the chest; underside 

 dark red at the tip, across the base, and on each side of the hind 

 borders of the segments: drums small, tawny, black at the base, 

 Si)me distance apart: legs black, clothed with short white hairs; 

 thighs adorned with pale red stripes ; claws dark red, black towards 

 the tips ; middle-shanks pitchy with pale red stripes, adorned with a 

 tawny band near the base; hind-shanks dull red, tawny at he tips, 

 adorned with a tawny band near the base which is pitchy : fore-thighs 

 armed with three ferruginous teeth, which are black towards the base, 

 two very large, the third small : hind-feet red, darker at the base and 

 at the tips: wings colourless ; fore border dark red as far as the brand, 

 pitchy with dark red streaks from thence towards the tip ; veins dark 

 red, black towards the tips ; first and second cross-veins clouded 

 with brown ; veins of the hind-wings tawny, black towards the tips ; 

 flaps mostly white. Length of the body 7^ lines ; of the wings 21 

 lines. 



a. New Holland. 



'Ql28. Cicada Melete, Mas et Fem. 



Nervus transversus \us fere rectus. suhobLiquus, angulum ohtusum 

 Jingens, 2o quadrwplb ejus lonyitudine divisus ; 2us subcur- 

 vus, subobliguus, angulum obtusum Jingens, \i longitudine ; 

 Zus vix undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens ; 4ws vix 

 undatu^, obliquu^^ angulum acutum Jingens, \o paulld lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet much more than three-fourths of the 

 length of the first : first cross-vein almost straight, slightly slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by four times its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 



