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the red hind horder ; hind-scutcheon narrow and adorned with a red 

 hand above, slio;htly widened on each side : scutcheon of the mid- 

 dle-chest adorned with a narrow red border and with two red stripes ; 

 hind border slightly excavated ; abdomen tapering from the base 

 to the tip, much longer than the chest, brown on each side to- 

 wards the base beneath ; hind borders of the segments red ; drums 

 very small, far apart, pale yellow, their disks black : legs black, 

 clothed with short hoary and black hairs, adorned with red stripes ; 

 claws red ; fore-thighs armed with rather long black teeth ; hind- 

 shanks beset witli red spines : wings colourless, yellow at the base 

 and along the fcire border ; veins red, black towards the lips ; tips 

 of the flaps clouded with black. Length of the body 7^ lines ; of 

 the wings 24 lines. 



a. Port Stephen, New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



139. Cicada incipiens, Fem. 



Nervus transversus \us rectus, ereclus, angulum suhohtusum fingens, 

 2o plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcuri-us,fere 

 erectus, angulum obtusum fingens, \o paullb longior ; 3us 

 subcurvus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum fing ens ; Aus fere 

 rectus, obliquus, angulum rectum Jingens, 3i dimidio brevior. 



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

 first : first cross-vein straight, upright, forming a slightly obtuse 

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

 second very slightly curved, nearly upright, fonuing an obtuse an- 

 gle, a little longer than the first ; third very slightly curved, very 

 slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth almost straight, slanting, 

 fonning a right angle, not half the length of the third ; fifth very 

 slightly curved, upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. Body 

 black, rather short : head fully as broad as the fore-chest : face 

 rather prominent, forming a very obtuse angle, adorned with a 

 tawny mark on each side in front : eyes prominent : fore-chest not 

 narrower in front, adorned with a slight tawny stripe ; hind- 

 scutcheon narrow above, slightly widened on each side : scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest adorned with two slightly wared tawny stripes ; 

 hind border tawny, slightly excavated: hind-chest mostly tawny : 

 abdomen tapering, bright tawny, much longer than the chest, mostly 

 black above at the base, whence three black stripes composed of 

 spots dwindle along the back and disappear at some distance from 

 the tip : legs tawny, striped with black, clothed with short tawny 

 hairs ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed A\4th three 

 rather long teeth : feelers dark tawny : wings colourless, tawny at 



