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areolet is very lon^, which character may be used for sections and is 

 most developed in this species, the fore borders of whose wings are 

 very convex ; the first and second marginal areolets are very short, 

 and in the left wing of the insect described the latter is divided by 

 a cross-vein. Body tawny, paler beneath : head a little narrower 

 than the fore-chest, black above ; a tawny spot on the region of the 

 eyelets, and another on each side of the face which is convex but 

 not prominent, and has a slender taw-ny stripe above and a broad 

 black stripe in front: mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the 

 middle-hips: feelers black, stout : eyes rather prominent : fore-chest 

 rather narrower before than behind ; scutcheon adorned with two 

 black stripes which are widened towards the borders, and with two 

 short pitchy stripes which are more outward; furrows pitchy ; liind- 

 scutcheon narrow, rather narrower on each side where the fore border 

 is black, extending very little beyond the scutcheon : disk of the 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest black, adorned with two hardly ob- 

 lique taw-ny stripes which widen towards the hind border, the latter 

 is not excavated : abdomen obconical, longer but not narrower than 

 the chest, adorned above with a black stripe which tapers from the 

 base to the tip and is interrupted near the latter; a row of black 

 spots on each side: opercula very small; tymbals white; drums 

 pale yellow, of moderate size, less than one-fourth of the length of 

 the body, parted by a narrow interval : legs yellow ; tips of the feet 

 and of the claws pitchy ; fore-thighs adorned with three long tawny 

 teeth; fore-sbanks dark tawny: wings colourless; veins tawny, 

 black towards the tips; fore border yellow, somewhat convex, widened 

 near the brand; it is there slightly notched and very narrow, but 

 again widens towards the tip ; fore-membranes pale yellow ; flaps 

 colourless; the first areolet is very short, and in the specimen 

 described is divided longitudinally into two areolets, the upper of 

 which in the left wing is again divided across by a little vein. Length 

 of the body 5 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



^ 162. Cicada Aceida, Fem. 



Nervus transversus Ins fere rectus, erectus, atigulum subobtusum 

 Jingens, 2o plus triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us fere rec- 

 tus, erectus, atigulum subobtusum Jingens, 1 multo longior ; 

 3us fere rectus, obliquus, anguluni acutiim fingens ; Aus vix 

 curvus, subobliquus, angulumfere rectum fingens, 3o paullb 

 longior. 



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

 first : first cross-vein almost straight, upright, forming a slightlv 



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