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flaps tawny at the base, slijfhtty clouded witli brown along tlie fore 

 border. Leiigtli of the body 23 lines; of the wings 68 lines. 

 a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



2. Cicada trutpsilon, Mas. 



Nervus transversiis Itts subcurvus, valdi obliquus, ani/utum perob- 

 iusum fingens, 2o fere quinquies ejtut lonijitudine divisus ; 

 2tM subcurvus, angulum perobtmum fingetis, \o loru/ior el 

 obliquior ; Sus subcurvus, subnbliqnus, angulum rectum fin- 

 gens ; 4us subundattis, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, 

 3n multb longior. 



Second marginal aieolet more than two-lhirds of the leng;th of 

 the first: first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slanting, forming 

 an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly live times 

 its length ; second very slightly curved, finining an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, longer and more slanting than the first; third very slightly 

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

 waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than 

 the third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, forming an acule angle. 

 Body ferruginous : head a little narrower than the fore-chest ; crown 

 adorned will) an irregular black band ; hind border black ; face con- 

 vex, rather prominenl, blackish above and on each side in front : 

 mouth ferruginous with a black tip, extending lo the hind-hips : 

 eyes not prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest black 

 along the border and on the furrows ; hind-sculcheon finely fur- 

 rowed, much widened on each side and forming a very obtuse "black 

 angle whose fore side is very slightly concave and its hind side 

 equally convex : scuicheon of the mirtdlc-chcst adorned with seven 

 black stripes ; the three on each side slightly curved, almost concen- 

 tric ; the middle pair widened in front aiid united behind; hind 

 border rather deeply excavated : abdimieu nearly oval, longer than 

 the chest, clothed with silky yellow down, paler beneath ; most of 

 the segments adorned with a black band along the fore border : oper- 

 cula none ; tymbals whitish with pitchy marks; drums tawny, small, 

 far apart : legs dark tawny ; thighs streaked with black ; fore-feet, 

 middle-feet and tips of the shanks black; fore-thighs armed with 

 three tawny teelh, whose tijjs are black, of these two are long and 

 one is short : wings colourless, tawny and partly black at the base, 

 ferruginous along the fore border, slightly tinged with brown at the 

 tips; first and second cross-veins clouded with dark brown, of which 

 there is a slight tinge at the fore end of the third ; veins black ; flaps 



