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25. F. chlorogcna. N. Brazil. 



Fidicina chlorogcna. Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 88 fi85o), &■ 

 Fidicina basispes, Walker, List Horn. Suppl. p. i5 (i858), g. 



26. F. flavibasalis. Ecuador. 



Fidicina flavibasalis, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 1 5, p. 3 17 (1905). 



b' . Tegmina maculate. 



27. F. miilleri. Brazil. 



Fidicina Miilleri, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 9, p. 3ig (1892). 



28. i 7 . bonaerensis. - Argentina. 



Fidicina bonaerensis. Berg, Hem. Argent, p. 208 (1879). 



29. F. bicolor. Cayenne. 



Cicada bicolor, Olivier, Enc. Meth. Vol. 5, p. 748 (1790). 

 Fidicina cayennensis, Kirkaldy, The Canad. Ent. (1909), p. 3gi. 



30. F. ? f>hbeja. ? 



Cicada plebeja, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. 12), p. 707 (i5) (1766). 

 Fidicina plebtj a. Stal, Hem. Fabr. Vol. 2, p. 116 (1869). 

 3i. F. explanata. Brazil. 



Fidicina explanata, Uhler, Trans. Maryl. Acad. Sc. (1903), p. 2. 



32. F. vitellina. Brazil, Paraguay. 



Cicada vitellina, Germar, MS. Coll. Germ, in Mus. Berol. 



Fidicina vitellina, Jacobi, Sitz. Ges.Naturf. Freunde Berl.(ig04),p.i55,f.i. 



33. F. parvula. Brazil. 



Fidicina parvula, Jacobi, Sitz. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berl. (1904), p. 157. 



72. Genus HEMISCIERA, Amyot & Serville 



Hemisciera. Amyot & Serville, Hist, des Hem. p. 466 (1843). 



Characters. — Head (including eyes) considerably broader than base of mesonotum, eyes 

 porrect, more or less stylate, length of head about equal to half its breadth between eyes, and distinctly 

 shorther than pronotum which is about equal in length to mesonotum ; abdomen a little shorter than 

 space between apex of head and base of cruciform elevation, tympanal coverings in male with their 

 inner margins strongly concave; metasternal plate well developed, centrally longitudinally impressed 

 and anteriorly produced on each side; rostrum reaching the posterior coxa?; anterior femora strongly 

 spined beneath; opercula in male small, transverse, not extending beyond base of abdomen, tegmina 

 about two and a half times as long as broad, with eight apical areas and the basal cell about as long 

 as broad. 



Type. — H. maculipennis, Laporte. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Amazonian area of South America. 



1. H. maculipennis. — PI. 2, Figs. 2 1a, b. Amazons. 



Cicada maculipennis, Laporte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Vol. 1, p. 412 (i832). 

 Cicada versicolor, Brulle. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. Vol. 2, pi. 5, f. 1 (i835l. 

 Cicada sumpluosa. Blanchard, Hist. Nat. Ins. Vol. 3. p. i65 (1840). 

 Fidicina flos folia. Walker, List Horn. Suppl. p. i5 (i858). 



2. H. durhami. Amazons. 



Hemisciera Durhami. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. i5,p. 317(1905). 



3. H. ? taunts. ? 



Fidicina taitrus, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 85 (iS5o). 



