April, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 1 25 



Cicada lyricen De Geer = falvula Osbom. 



Fifteen specimens of each sex, which agree in the main with 

 Professor Osborn's description, are before us. With this 

 number of individuals the range of variation is considerably 

 beyond that given in his diagnosis. The pronotum in some is all 

 black, except for a broad central line and the mesonotum in 

 such is also black, with narrow fulvous lines indicating the usual 

 pattern. In other examples fulvous is the predominating color, 

 the black maculation being reduced; but the posterior and 

 lateral borders of the pronotum are always black, except for 

 a small spot which is sometimes present near the head. Green 

 occasionally replaces the fulvous and, rarely, both are present 

 on the same insect, the fulvous occuping the lateral portions 

 of the mesothorax, the green the remainder of the background. 

 The narrow pruinose line at the base of the abdomen is more 

 often than not separated into two lateral linear spots and is 

 rarely absent. Beneath, the black polished center with lateral 

 pruinose borders holds true in all specimens. The opercula 

 are as broad as long and vary in shape posteriorly from 

 rounded or elliptical as described, to the more usual shape for 

 this form, of a sub-quadrangle as shown in the figure. They 

 are of a uniform pale brown color, quite different from the 

 creamy yellow color, with black shadings, of most of the allied 

 species. The genitalia are of the more usual form ; the uncus 

 much dilated and truncated apically. 



Habitat. — New York to Florida and westward to Indiana; 

 New York — Long Island and Staten Island, July to Sep- 

 tember; New Jersey — Normanock, July; Newfoundland, July 

 28; Paterson, July 14; Newark, July 27; New Bruns\vick, 

 Farmingdale, August 12; Mentone, Alabama, August 10; 

 Georgiana and Archer, Florida, July. 



Cicada similaris now sp. # 



Length : $ 35 mm., to tip of wings 50 mm. 



This species is very close to C. lyricen, but the great differ- 

 ence in the genitalia (pi. Ill, fig. 9) separates it at once from 

 that species. The clasp or side piece is not very characteristic, 

 but the uncus is curiously shaped like the head of a snake with 

 expanded jaws, and from above the lower "jaw" is deeply 



