sovie undescrihed Cicadidse. 59 



the posterior margin of eyes, and a spot at anterior angles of 

 vertex, black. Pronotum with the anterior margin and a 

 transverse central spot on inner edge of posterior margin 

 black. Mesonotum with two short, central, angulated black 

 fascia3 at anterior margin, with a shorter and more obliterated 

 spot on each side, a lineate spot on hinder portion of disk, a 

 spot on each side of tlie cruciform elevation, the anterior 

 margin of same, and a small spot in front of its anterior 

 angles, black. Abdomen with the basal segmental margins 

 narrowly blackisli. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ; the 

 central sulcation (partly) and the transveise striations to face, 

 margins of face, fascia between face and eyes, apices of ante- 

 rior and intermediate tarsi, apex of rostrum, and the basal 

 margins of opercula, black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous 

 or fuscous, their extreme bases narrowly ochraceous, streaked 

 with black; tegmina with the costal membrane and upper 

 part of basal cell ochraceous, the postcostal area fuscous. 



The front has an obscure central sulcation, the face is 

 profoundly sulcated and striated ; the body beneath is slightly 

 pilose; the rostrum reaches the posterior coxae; the opercula 

 are small, not quite meeting at their inner basal angles, their 

 posterior margins sinuated. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ "2,6 millim.; exp. tegm. 93 millim. 



Hab. Bogota. 



This species is closely allied to the preceding, F. amazona, 

 although of very different coloration and markings. It 

 differs also from F. amazona by the broader and less ante- 

 riorly produced head, the much less pilose body, the nan-ower 

 central sulcation to the face, and by tlie shorter upper apical 

 area to tlie tegmina, whicli is not equal to the third area in 

 length. 



Fidicina rubricata, sp. n. 



? . Body above brownish ochraceous. Head with the area 

 of the ocelli and the hinder margin of the eyes broadly 

 black. Pronotum with the anterior margin and a central 

 transverse spot on inner edge of posterior margin black. 

 Mesonotum with two central curved fasciate lines on anterior 

 margin, a small spot in front of the anterior angles of the 

 cruciform elevation, the anterior margin, and a large spot on 

 each side of same, blackish ; the posterior lateral margins 

 blackish, narrowly edged with ochraceous. Abdomen reddish 

 ochraceous (excluding central base), much shaded with black, 

 and very stiongly pilose, the hairs being distinctly ochraceous 



