1874.] 285 [Uhler. 



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scooped out inferior surface may give it some advantage when leap- 

 ing into the air to seize its food or to evade its enemies. 



HOMOPTERA. 



ClCADID^E. 



Cicada gigas Oliv., Encyc. Method., Vol. v, p. 750, pi. Ill, 

 fig. 4. 



From the region west of the Huallaja River in Peru. It seems 

 to be more common in Central America, Guiana, and Mexico, and it 

 occurs also in the AVest Indies. 



Fidicina mannifera Fabr., Syst. Rhyng., p. 36, No. 13; StolT, 

 Oad., p. 88, pi. 23, fig. 126. 



Specimens from west of the Huallaja River in Peru. 



Fidicina opalina Germ., Thon's Archiv, i, p. 2, No. 52. 



One specimen from Peru. 



Proarna grisea Fabr., Syst. Rhyng., p. 34, No. 4. 



A small specimen was collected west of the Huallaja River in 

 Peru. 



Carineta socia nov. sp. 



Pale dull fulvous, densely pubescent, body stout and cylindrical. 

 Front tumid, convex, shagreened and remotely punctured above ; 

 ocelli amber yellow, placed upon fuscous oblong spots, the intermedi- 

 ate one placed at the anterior extremity of a yellow longitudinal 

 groove. Eyes elevated above the surface of the fore-chest, but 

 scarcely projecting sideways as far as the lateral margin. Rostrum 

 tipped with piceous, extending not quite to the posterior coxa?. Pro- 

 notum a little more than twice as wide as long, the lateral margins 

 indented posteriorly and directed obliquely forwards and inwards at an 

 angle of almost forty-five degrees, the posterior angles lamellar, a lit- 

 tle upturned and subacute, the anterior angles bluntly rounded ; the 

 prsescutellum bluntly carinated on its anterior margin; collar of the 

 1 posterior margin of the pronotum forming a pale band, the disk and 

 anterior surface dark tawny clouded with fuscous. Metanotum also 

 paler than the adjoining surface. Wings soiled hyaline, the veins in- 

 fuse ated near and at the tip. First apical areole narrow, and about 

 one and one-half times longer than the second ; second a little wider 

 at tip, with the basal nervule curved inwards at tip ; third a little 

 shorter than the first, with its basal nervule a little oblique and 

 curved ; fourth longer than the first, with its basal nervule sharply 



