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^43. Cicada dtversa, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurrus, fere erectus, angulum suhohtu- 

 sum fingeiis, 2o fere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvu^, valde obliguu.s, angulum perobtuswn fingens^ \o 

 multb longior ; 3m5 subcnrvus, obliqtius, angulum rectum 

 fingens ; Aus fere rectus^ obliquus, angulum vix acutum fin- 

 genSj 3i longitudine. 



Second niargiual areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a very slightly 

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

 second very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, very much longer than the first ; third very slightly 

 curved, slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth nearly straight, 

 slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, upright, forming a sliirhtly acute angle. Body 

 Mack above, tawny beneath : head small, much narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; crown adorned with three tawny spots on the hind 

 border, and at the base of each feeler with a large tawny spot which 

 nearly incloses a black dot ; face very convex, not prominent, black 

 in front, beneath tawny with a black stripe : mouth pale tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind hips : eyes not prominent : feelers 

 black : fore-chest narrower before than behind : scutcheon adorned 

 with a tawny stripe which joins the middle spot on the hind border, 

 and with two slightly oblique tawny streams on each side : hind- 

 scutcheon very narrow above, much widened on each side ; its hind 

 border tawny : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two in- 

 distinct tawny streaks, by which it is imperfectly divided into the 

 usual obconical stripes ; sides, cross-ridge and hind border tawny, 

 tlie latter slightly excavated: abdomen obconical, a little broader 

 and much longer than the chest; hind borders of the segments and 

 the whole surface on one-third of the breadth of each side tawny : 

 opercula none ; tymbals grayish-tawny ; drums pale tawny, rather 

 small, pitchy at the base, meeting in the middle : legs tawny ; hips 

 and thighs adorned with pitchy streaks ; tips of the shanks and of 

 the feet pitchy ; claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two long black 

 teeth whose tips are ferruginous : wings colourless ; fore border 

 tawny ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base ; fore-flaps yel- 

 low; hind-flaps yellow at the base and along the veins, and for a 

 short space along the hind border ; an indistinct cross-vein in the 

 first discoidal areolet of the left hind-wing. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



