MST OF HOMOPI'EIIOUS INSECTS. 107 



obtuse angle, parted from the second by more tban five limes iu 

 lengtb ; second slipfbtly curved, very slantins, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, a little longer than the first; third very slightly curved, 

 slightly slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth slightly waved, slant- 

 ing, forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than the third; 

 fifth curved, upright, forming a nearly right angle. Body tawny : 

 licad a little narrower than the fore-chest; crown adorned with an 

 irregular and much curved black band ; face very convex, with a 

 row of black bands on each side : eyes very prominent : mouth tawny 

 with a black lip reaching the hind-hips ; feelers tawny, piichy to- 

 wards the base ; a short black band on the fore border of the fore- 

 chest and another on the hind border, and between tlicm two short 

 slanting black stripes; hind-scutcheon pale tawny, tinged with 

 green, widened, waved and partly edged with black on each side: 

 middle-chest adorned with seven slender black stripes, the three 

 pairs slanting, the middle one linear, widened at the lip ; hind bor- 

 der much excavated : abdomen nearly elliptical, longer and broader 

 than the chest; fore borders of the segments black ; a black spot on 

 the first segment : legs tawny, slightly marked with black ; fore- 

 thighs armed with three teeth, two large and one small : wings colour- 

 less, their tips slightly clouded with brown ; veins tawny, darker to- 

 wards ihe lips ; first and second cross-veins clouded with brown ; 

 flaps yellow towards the base. Length of the body 22 lines ; of the 

 wings 62 lines. 



a. West Coast of America. Presented by Cant. Kelltlt and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



8. Cicada vihrans, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus transversus Im- subcurmi.t, ohliquus, angulum valde obtu- 

 sumjinjjens, 2o quadrnplb ejus longilndine divisus ; 2tis sub- 

 ctirmis, obliqwis, angulum valdi obtmmn fingens , \i longitu- 

 dine i Sus stibmidatus, obliqttus, angulum vix aculumfingens ; 

 ius undaltis, obliquus, angulum vix aculuxn fingcns, 3o lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet full three-fourths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, forming a vei'y obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by four times its length ; second 

 slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, as long as 

 the fir.st ; third slightly waved, slanting, forming a hardly acute an- 

 gle ; fourth waved, slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, longer 

 than the third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute 

 angle. Body lawiiy : head a little narrower than the fore-chest ; 



