208 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth very slightly waved, slant- 

 ing, forming a slightly acute angle, much shorter than the third ; 

 fifth very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a very slightly 

 acute angle. The specimen described may be immature. Body 

 tawny, clothed with pale hairs: head nearly as broad as the fore- 

 chest, adorned with a tawny spot between the eyelets and with a 

 yellow spot on each side of the face ; the latter ferruginous, slightly 

 convex, not at all prominent : mouth tawny with a black tip, reach- 

 ing the middle-hips : eyes not prominent: feelers tawny, pitchy at 

 the base : fore-chest ferruginous, very little narrower in front than 

 behind ; scutcheon adorned with a slender tawny stripe, which tapers 

 from the fore border to the hind border ; two tawny spots on the hind 

 border ; hind-scutcheon pitchy, very narrow in the middle but much 

 widened above the base of each fore-wing, slightly excavated on 

 each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four obconi- 

 oal pitchy stripes, the outer pair veined with tawny, the inner pair 

 much shorter, yellow at the base, succeeded by a large pitchy spot 

 which sends forth a fork on each side towards the cross-ridge : ab- 

 domen obconical, a little longer than the chest, ferruginous, with a 

 pitchy stripe on the back : opercula extremely small ; tymbals pale 

 tawny ; drums pale yellow, of moderate size, slightly overlapping : 

 legs pale tawny ; feet and fore-legs darker; claws pitchy towards the 

 tips ; fore-thighs armed with three tawny teeth with black tips : 

 wings colourless; fore border and veins very pale tawny, darker to- 

 wards the tips : fore-flaps pale tawny ; hind-flaps pale tawny along 

 part of the hind border. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 19^ lines. 

 a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



'^ 161. Cicada complex, Mas. 



Nermis transversus Iws rectus^ fere erectus, unguium suhohtusum fin- 

 gens, Gofers duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus,fere 

 erectus, angulumfere rectum Jingens, lo longior ; 3us vix cur^ 

 %ms, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; 4us rectus, perohli- 

 quus, angulum fere rectum Jingens, Si longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet much longer than the first : first cross- 

 vein straight, nearly upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by nearly twice its length; second very slightly 

 curved, nearly upright, forming an almost right angle, longer than 

 the first ; third hardly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth straight, extremely slanting, almost level, forming a nearly 

 right angle, as long as the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a 

 very slightly acute angle. In some of the smaller Cicadce the front 



