LIST 01' HOMOPTKKOUS INSECTS. 



Genus 12. CICADA. 

 Cicada, Linnaus, Amyot el Scrv. Hist. Nat. Him. 473, 374. 



1. Cicada adusta, Mas. 



Nervu.'! transversus \rts rectu.1 suboblif/iius, niif/iibim nbtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o plus quadnmll) ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us suhcur- 

 vus, ohliquus, angulum valde oblwium fingens, lo mullb bre- 

 vinr ; Sus fere rectun, obliquus, unguium vix acnlum Jingens ; 

 ius subcurvus, subobliquus, unguium vix obtusum fingens, 3i> 

 brevior. 

 Second marginal aieolet much more than two-thirds of the 

 length of the fust: fust cross-vein straight, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing an o1)tuse angle, parted from the second hy more than lour times 

 its length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, muoli shorter than the (irst; third almost straight, slanting, 

 forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, sliglitly slant- 

 ing, forming a hardly obtuse angle, shorter than the third; fifth 

 slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. 

 Body iawny, darker here and there : head narrower than the fore- 

 cliest, pitchy about the eyelets : face very convex, not very promi- 

 nent, adorned in front with two broad ferruginous stripes : mouth 

 ferruginous with a black tip, reaching the hind-shanks: eyes very 

 prominent: feelers black : scuiclieon of the fore-chest adorned with 

 two pitchy forked stripes proceeding from the fore border and slightly 

 converging, behind them there are two triangular pitchy marks ; 

 hind border of the liind-sculcheon pitcliy, its sides convex, each 

 armed with a tooth : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with 

 two nearly triangular pitc!)y spots, and on each side of these with a 

 longer interrupted pitchy mark; four pitchy spots in a cross-row 

 near the liiiid border which is very slightly excavated ; abdomen ob- 

 conical, pale ferruginous, a little longer than the chest, slightly com- 

 pressed at the lip: drums very small, dark tawny, far apart: legs 

 dark tawny, rather hairy ; tips of the shanks, fore-feet and middle- 

 feet pitchy; tips of the claws black; fore-thighs armed with two 

 sharp teeth of moderate size : wings colourless, tawny at the base 

 and along the fore border ; on the fore-wings an almost impercep- 

 tible tawny tiuge which is most apparent on the disks of the areolels 

 towards the tips; first cross-vein clouded with brown; a brown spot 

 on each of the second, third and fourth cross-veins : a row of brown 

 spots on the lips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolels ; 



