■^^^ ^i»'- W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



panal coverings about as long as broad ; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior coxse, its apex piceous; opercuhi vvitli their Suter 

 margins nearly straight, their posterior margins stronHy 

 oblique and rounded apically, reaching the third abdominal 

 segment, their inner angles not meeting. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ ? 19-20 mm. ;''exp. tegm. 61-69 mm. 



Ilah. ? (Types, J ? , Brit. Mus.) 



iwo specimens, male and female, presented by Dr. Swale 

 to the Britisli Museum, but without locality, constitute the 

 material on which this species is founded. The figure given 

 will, however, prevent confusion. It probably 1>elono-s to 

 Central America. ^ 



Genus Cicada {mUe, p. 330). 



Cicada, Linn. Sj'st. Nat. i. p. 704 (1766). 



Cicada snhgen. Chremistica, StSl (part.), GSfv. Vet.- 'ik Forh 1870 

 p. 714, note. ' ■ '^, 



Cicada, subgeu. Cicada, Stal (part.), loc. cii. 

 Cicada, subgen. Diceroprocta, Stal (part.), loc. cit. 

 Type, C. phheja, Scop. 



Cicada graminen, sp. n. 

 ?. Head and thorax above grassy green ; pronotum In- 

 clining to ochraceous, probably through discoloVation ; TieTd 

 with the basaUateral areas of face, a transverse fascia betwe n 

 anterior margins of eyes, basal margin, and the area of the 

 ocelli purplish brown ; mesonotum with two central lines 

 (united antenody and posteriorlj) and the incisures purpHsI 

 brown; mesonotum with two anterior, central, short, obconici 

 spots, on each side of which is a much longer and mo ^e 

 elongate spot, a central, discal, lanceolate spot, and a spot n 

 front of each anterior angle of the cruciform elevation pu -pli h 

 brown,outwardly margined with greenish ochraceou..; abdomen 

 above somewhat thickly greyishly tomentose; body beneath 

 and legs more ochraceous than above, abdomen with some 

 central discal transverse and some sublateral much smaller 

 purplish-brown spots ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the co^t' 

 membrane and venation of basal area of tegmina p-reenish 

 remaining venation fuscous ; venation of wings trreenish 



Head truncate in front, its length half the breJdth between 

 eyes and (including eyes) as wide as base of mesonotum 

 anterior femora armed beneath with two strong spines • nostl' 

 nor tibi^ with three spines placed on each side on apical 

 halves ; rostrum not quite reaching posterior coxa? 



Long, excl. tegm 26 mm. ; exp. tegm. 85 mm. 



Hab. Queensland {F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mu^ ) 



