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the fore anp^le inward and the hind angle outward ; sides, cross- 

 ridge and hind border also tawny, the laiter slightly excavated : ab- 

 domen obconical, a little narrower and very much longer than the 

 chest, tawny at the tip ; hind borders of the segments mostly tawny : 

 drums black with tawny borders, extremely small, far apart : legs 

 black ; thighs and fore-hips adorned with tawny stripes ; four 

 hinder knees lawny ; fore-thighs armed with three black teeth, two 

 large and one small ; middle-shanks pitchy with a tawny band near 

 the base ; (bur hinder feet pitchy with a tawny band in the middle ; 

 hind-shanks pale tawny, pitchy at the base and at the tips, beset 

 with pitchy spines whose tips are ferruginous : wings colourless ; 

 fore borders pitchy, inclosing a yellow stripe which extends as far as 

 the yellow brand ; veins black, tawny towards the base. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



^134. Cicada multifascia, Mas. 



Nervus tramversus lus fere rectus, suberectus, angulum ohtusum 

 Jingens, 2ofere triplo ejus longitudme divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 fere erectus, angulum obtusum Jin gens, lo paullo longior ; 3«s 

 vix undatm, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; 4 us fere 

 rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o paulld brevior. 



Second marginal areolet three-fourths of the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein nearly straight, almost upright, forming an obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second 

 slightly curved, nearly upright, forming an obtuse angle, a little 

 longer than the first; third very indistinctly w'aved, slanting, form- 

 ing an acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, a little shorter, rather 

 less slanting and forming a less acute angle than the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, upright, forming a right anule. Body black, 

 slender : head as broad as the fore-chest ; face slightly convex, not 

 at all prominent : mouth black, reaching near to the hind-hips : 

 eyes prominent: feelers blacii : structure of the chest like that of C. 

 rujifascia : sides and hind border of the scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest red : abdomen oblanceolate,near twice the length of the chest, 

 longer than that of C. rujifascia; hind borders of the segments 

 adorned with narrow bright red bands which are mostly entire ; a 

 broad red partly interrupted band on the penultimate segment ; last 

 segment black above, with a forked red mark on each side ; under 

 side red : legs pale red ; thighs striped with black ; feet and fore- 

 shanks dark red ; fore-thighs armed with three long black teeth : 

 wings colourless; fore border pale red as far as the brand, dark 



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