216 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Fern. — Abdomen a little longer and more pointed than that of 

 the male. 



Length of the body 7 — 8 lines; of the wings 18 — 20 lines. 



a — c. From Dr. Hooker's collection. 



^169. Cicada Hottentotta ? 



Cicada Hottentotta? Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 758, 58, pi. 113, f. 14. 

 StoU, Cic. 94, pi. 25, f. 137. 



Nerims ti'ansversus lus rectus^ subobliquus, angulum obtusum Jin- 

 gens, 2o plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 obliqmis, angulum valde obtusumfingens, \o longior ; 3m.s rec- 

 tus ^ obliquus, angulum rectum fingens ; Am fere rectus, valde 

 obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o multd longior. 



Second marginal areolet about three-fourths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein straight, very slightly slanting, forming an 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than twice its length ; 

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, longer 

 than the first ; third straight, slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth 

 nearly straight, very slanting, forming an acute angle, much longer 

 than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a hardly acute angle. 

 Body black above, tawny beneath : head rather short, hardly nar- 

 rower than the fore-chest ; a tawny dot behind the eyelets and another 

 on the face which is slightly convex and has two tawny spots on each 

 side, and two tawny stripes in front : mouth ferruginous with a black 

 tip, reaching the middle-hips : ey6s not prominent: a short slender 

 tawny streak on the disk of the fore-chest which has two small tawny 

 spots' on each side, and is hardly narrower in front than behind ; 

 hind-scutcheon short, slightly streaked with tawny near each side 

 where it is rounded on approaching the base of the fore-wings, and 

 extends beyond the scutcheon whose sides are slightly convex : sides 

 and hind border of the scutcheon of the middle-chest mostly tawny ; 

 excavation on the hind border almost obsolete : abdomen obconical, 

 much longer than the chest ; sutures of the segments tawny; along 

 each side an irregular row of lawny spots which are largest at the 

 tip ; disk of the base black beneath : opercula none ; tymbals whitish ; 

 drums yellow, very small, parted beneath by a broad interval : legs 

 tawny ; thighs streaked with brown ; feet and tips of the shanks 

 brown ; a tawny band on each of the four hinder feet ; claws tawny 

 with pitchy tips; fore-thighs armed with three very large teeth: 

 wings slightly tinged with tawny, clouded more or less with brown 



