LIST OF IIOMOrTEROUS INSECTS. 



fourth waved, slantiiig, forming an acule anjfle, much longer than 

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

 gle. Body ferruginous ahove, tawny and powdered with while be- 

 neath, partly covered with pale yellow shining down : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest; crown adorned with an irregular and 

 interrupted black band ; face partly black, very convex: eyes rather 

 prominent : mouth lawny with a black tip, reaching beyond the mid- 

 dle-hips: feelers black, tawny at the base: fore-chest narrower in 

 front ; scutcheon adorned with four black stripes ; hind-scutcheoii 

 pale green, widened, angular and slightly excavated on each side: 

 middle-chest adorned with two obconical pitchy stripes which are 

 united on the fore border and extend about half ilie length ; hind 

 border slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest : 

 Ics green with tawny stripes ; feet black at the base and at the tips ; 

 liind-shauks beset with ferruginous spines ; fore-thighs armed with 

 two rather long teeth : wings colourless ; fore border green as far as 

 the brand, brown from thence towards the tip ; veins green, black 

 towards the lips ; first and second cross-veins and tips of first and 

 second longitudinal veins clouded with brown. Length of the body 

 13i lines ; of the wings 45 lines. 

 a. Cuba. 



58. Cicada viRioiFAsniA, Mas et Fem. 



AVri'MS transiiersus lux suhcunms, ohli^iius, angulnm vatde oblu- 

 suni fingens. 2o plus tri/ilo ejus hiniiihidine divisiis ; 2us sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, uni/iiluni nililr tihlnxiiiii fini/ens. It longi- 

 tudine ; 3us stibcurvus, ob/ifpms; atif/uliuii fere rectum Jin- 

 gens ; 4us undatus, obliquus, angulum subaeutum fingens, 3o 

 multo limgior. 

 Second marginal areolet full two-thirds of the length of the 

 lirst : first cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than ihrice its length ; 

 second very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, 

 as long as the first ; third slightly curved, slanting, forming a nearly 

 right angle ; fourth waved, slanting, forming a very slightly acute 

 angle, very much longer than the third ; fifth slightly curved, erect, 

 forming a right angle. Body tawny : head very little iiarrower than 

 the fore-chest ; crown mostly occupied by a very broad irregular 

 Mack band ; face slightly convex, partly black above : eyes not pro- 

 minent: mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : 

 feelers black, lawny at the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest pale 

 green along the fore border, adorned with two black stripes which 



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