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FIG. V, VI. 

 CICADA DILATATA. 



Hemiptera. 



Shells or upper Wings, femi cruftaceous, divided by an oblique 

 future, and incumbent on each other. Beak bent down. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper. Shells membraneous. In each foot three joints, 

 Jlind legs ftrong for leaping. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Entirely brown, pale with faint whitifh and dark lines, a fmall 

 black fpot on the center of each wing. 



A figure of this Infeft is given in Villers's Entomology as a native 

 of France ; in this he follows the authority of Fourcroy, who has 

 a defcription of the fame fpecies in his Catalogue of Infecls, found 

 in the environs of Paris. This lafl author calls it Le Cigale renflee, 

 from its puffed or fwelled appearance. The name given by Villers 

 is Cicada dilatata. 



The confufion made by Fabricius, in his alterations of the Lin- 

 ncean genera, renders it doubtful whether he has defcribed this Infed, 

 though, from its being commonly found in moft parts of Europe, 

 we mull fuppofe he has not paffed over it without notice : we have 

 examined his lafl work, (Entomologia Syftematica, &c.) and cannot 

 find an Infect anfwering our fpecies with any reference either to 

 Fourcroy or Villers, we therefore prefer the fpecinc name given by 

 fhe latter author. 



Is found in June ; and is lefs common than any Infect of the fame 

 genus hitherto given in this work. 



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