190 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



the base ; fore border ferruginous as far as the brand which is 

 darker ; veins black ; flaps colourless. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 14.ilines. 



a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Cyl40. Cicada dolens, Mas et Fem. 



Nervus transversus \us rectus, suhobliquus, angulum rectum jin- 

 gens, 2o plus duplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us suhcurvus, 

 fere erectus, angulum ohtusum fingens, \o longior ; Zus suh- 

 curvus, ohliquus, angulum aculum fingens ; Aus subcurvus, 

 angulum acutum fingens, 3o longior et obliquior. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein straight, very slightly slanting, forming a right angle, 

 parted from the second by more than twice its length ; second 

 slightly curved, nearly upright, forming an obtuse angle, longer 

 than the first ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute 

 angle ; fourth very slightly curved, forming an acute angle, longer 

 and more slanting than the third ; fifth slightly curved, upright, 

 forming a nearly right angle. 



Male. — Body black, clothed with white hairs : head clothed 

 with golden hairs, and with longer black hairs, adorned with a 

 tawny spot on each side at the base of the feelers ; face slightly con- 

 vex: mouth black, tawny at the base, as long as the middle hips: 

 eyes rather prominent ; feelers black : fore-chest not narrower in 

 front; hind-scutcheon red along the hind border, narrow above, 

 slightly widened and angular on each side ; hind border of the 

 middle-chest red, slightly excavated : abdomen tapering from the 

 base to the tip, much longer than the chest ; hind borders of the 

 segments yellow towards the base, red towards the tip ; a row of 

 dull yellowish marks on each side beneath : drums small ; opercula 

 none : legs black ; knees and shanks mostly tawny : wings colour- 

 less, tawny at the base ; fore border tawny, black beyond the 

 brand ; veins tawny, striped with black at the base, black towards 

 the tips ; vein along the hind border thick, black ; cross-vein be- 

 neath the brand pale tawny, yellow where it joins the brand ; tips of 

 the flaps clouded with brown. 



Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 17^ lines. 



a, b. New Holland. Presented by Captain Grey. 



