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obtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than thrice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a 

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

 slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth 

 nearly straight, slauting, forming a slightly acute angle, much 

 shorter than the third ; fifth slightly curved, nearly upright, forming 

 a hardly acute angle. Body pale tawny, tinged with green : two 

 pitchy marks in front, and two black dots towards the hind border 

 of the scutcheon of the middle-chest, which is also adorned with two 

 broad pale ferruginous slightly mottled stripes ; the side pair a little 

 oblique : oviduct ferruginous with a black tip : legs yellow : fore 

 border and veins of the wings tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; 

 of the wings 18 lines. 



a. New Holland. Preseuted by the Haslar Hospital. 



^'^146. Cicada Arche, Mas. 



Nervus transversus 1«^ rectus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum Jin- 

 gens, 2o quinquies ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subrectus, 

 obliquus, angulum valde obtusum fingens, \o fere dujjlb Ion- 

 gior ; 3m5 fere rectus^ subobliquus, angulum subacuium Jin- 

 gens ; 4us vix curmts, subobliquus, angulum vix acutumjingens , 

 3i longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet nearly as long as the first : first cross- 

 vein straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by full five times its length ; second nearly straight, 

 slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, nearly twice the length of the 

 first ; third almost straight, slightly slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle; fourth hardly curved, slightly slanting, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, as long as the third : fifth very slightly curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. Body tawny: head 

 a little narrower than the fore-chest ; face convex, not prominent; 

 mouth pale tawny, reaching the hind-hips : feelers tawny : eyes 

 not prominent, black with tawny net-work : hind-scutcheon of the 

 middle-chest of moderate breadth above, a little broader on each 

 side where it forms a slight angle and is excavated: scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest adorned with three broad darker stripes which are 

 indistinctly marked with paler net-work ; hind border hardly exca- 

 vated: abdomen tapering, much longer than the chest: drums 

 small, not one-fourth of the length of the abdomen, parted by a 

 broader interval : legs pale tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore- 

 ihighs armed with two large tawny teeth whose tips are pitchv : 



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