LIST OF HOMOPTEHOUS INSECTS. 



7. DUNDUUIA VARIANS. 



Cicada varians, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 59, 10. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



8. DuNDUniA LINEARIS, Mas. 

 Nervus transversm l«s vaUU mrvus, vix obliquus, angidum rec- 

 tum fingens, 2o plus dtiplo ejus longitudine dimsus ; 2jm sub' 

 eurmts,obliqiixiS,angulumobtusuinfingens,\o vix brevior ; 3im 

 vald^ curvits, obliqum, angulum aculmn fingens ; 4us airims, 

 subobliqum, angulum subacutumfingens, 3o brevior. 

 Second marginal arcolet nearly seven-eighlbs of the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein very much curved, hardly slanting, forming 

 a right angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its 

 length : second slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 nearly as long as the first; third very much curved in its fore part, 

 slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming a very slightly acute angle, shorter than the third ; fifth 

 nearly straight, fonning a slightly obtuse angle. Body tawny be- 

 neath : head and chest pitchy ; head and fore-chest adorned with 

 indistinct tawny marks, which are mostly along the sutures: head 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; face convex, rather prominent, pitchy 

 towards the mouth ; the latter tawny with a black tip, reaching the 

 hind borders of the drums : eyes prominent : feelers black : fore- 

 chest broadest at the base of the fore-wings; scutcheon adorned 

 with six pale tawny stripes which proceed from the fore border to 

 the disk ; hind-scutcheon much widened on each side, which is slightly 

 concave in the middle part, slightly convex before and behind : hind 

 border of the scutcheon of the middle-chest slightly excavated : 

 breast green : abdomen ferruginous, nearly linear till towards the 

 tip, where it is conical, about twice the length of the chest ; sutures 

 of the segments black: opercula dark ferruginous; drums green, 

 rather large, hardly apart: legs tawny ; fore-thighs armed with two 

 sharp tawny teeth : lips of the feet and of the claws black : wings 

 with an indistinct tawny tinge, slightly coloured with green, pale 

 brown and marked with "black at the base; fore border greenish ; 

 cross-veins clouded with brown : a row of small brown spots on the 

 tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets ; veins adorned 

 with alternate black and pale yellow bands ; veins of the hind-wings 

 tawny ; cross-veins darker ; flaps pale brown at the base. Length 

 of the body 22 lines ; of the wings 56 liues. 

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