LIST OI- IlOMOITliROUS INSECTS. hi) 



ing an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than 

 twice its length; second much curved, slanting, forming a slightly 

 obtuse angle, much shorter than tlie first : third very slightly waved, 

 slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth curved, slanting, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, much longer than the third ; (iflh curved, nearly 

 upright, forming an acute angle. Body tawny, short, broad, clothed 

 with paler hairs ; head hardly narrower than the fore-chest ; crown 

 adorned with an irregular black band which incloses tlie eyelets ; 

 face very slightly convex, adorned in front with a black stripe : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching beyond the middle-hips : eyes pro- 

 minent: feelers dark tawny : scutcheon of the fore-chest tinged with 

 green: hind-scutcheon green, forming on each side a very obtuse 

 angle, having three very shallow excavations on the hind border : 

 scutcheon of the middle-ehest adorned with two black curved marks 

 which taper from the fore border; hind border tinged with green, 

 rather slightly excavated: abdomen almost linear till near the tip, 

 shorter than the chest ; hind borders of the segments tinged with 

 green : opercula none; drums tawny, not far apart, nearly half the 

 length of the abdomen : legs tawny, clothed with paler liairs; tips 

 of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two stout tawny teeth : 

 wings colourless, bright grass-green near the base, dark tawiiy along 

 the fore border; veins dark tawny; a lawny tinge on the hind- 

 wings near the base which is tawny. Length of the body 15 lines ; 

 of the wings 45 lines. 



15. FlDICINA OPALINA. 



Fidicina opalina, Amyol et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 472, 2. 



Cicada opalina. Germ. Than, Arch. ii. 2, 52. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 



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 h—d Brazil. 



16. FiniCINA ATRATA. 



Tettigonia atrati, Fabr. Si/st. JSnt. GS\, 15. Sp. Ins. ii.Hil, 18. 



Mant. his. ii. 267, 22.' Ent. Si/st. iv. 24, 28. Si/st. Rliyn. 42, 



44. Gmel. Ed. Si/st. Nat. i. 3, 2098, 80. 

 Cicada alrata. Germ, than. Arch. ii. 2, 55. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 68 



30. 

 Cicada nigra, Oliv. Enc. Mith v. 750, 17. pi. Ill, f. 5. StoU, 



Ck. 84, pi. 22, f. 118. 

 Cicada atra, Signoret, Rev. Zool. 1849, 406, 1, pi. 10, f. 1. 

 <^~g China. 



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