12() LIST OF HOMOPTEROIJS INSECTS. 



ail acme angle, much longer than the third; fifth ciivved, almost 

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body broad, dark tawny : 

 head and fore-chest dull green : head broad, very little narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; face very slightly convex : mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind-hips: eyes prominent : feelers tawny 

 at the base: fore-chest broadest in the middle ; two very small pitchy 

 dots on the hind border of the scutcheon ; hind scutcheon broad, 

 very convex and beset with short pitchy bristles on each side where 

 it quickly decreases in breadth towards the fore border: some pitchy 

 but very indistinct traces of the usual obconical marks on the scut- 

 rheon of the middle-chest ; hind border tinged with green, rather 

 deeply excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest; 

 last segment long and narrow like a short tail, adorned with two 

 pilchy slightly curved stripes extending half the length from the 

 base; horn at the tip ferruginous : oviduct ferruginous : legs tawy, 

 thighs tinged with green ; feet ferruginous ; claws black, ferrugi- 

 nous towards the base; fore-thighs near the lip armed with a tawny 

 tooth of moderate size : wings colourless ; fore border tawny, tinged 

 with green as far as the brand, pitchy from thence towards the lip ; 

 veins tawny, tinged with green in the fore-wings, black towards the 

 tips ; primitive areolet partly tinged with green ; fore-flaps gray ; 

 hind-wings pale brown at the base. Length of the body 16 lines; 

 of the wings 45 lines. 



(I. ? Presented bv Sir E. Belcher. 



()4. Cicada si'inicosta, Mas et Fern. 



Nervn.f traiimerini.i Itis subcurvus, valdit obliquiis, angulum perob- 

 ttisum fiiiffem, 2o triplti ejus lungitudine dimsiis ; 2m subcur- 

 vus, valdi obliquus angulum pi>robtusum finr/ens, H Inngitu- 

 dine ; 3im ferd rivlus, subobliijuus, anffulum vix acutum 

 finyms ; Aus fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fin- 

 gens, 3ff longinr. 



Second marginal areolet a iitlle more than three-fourths of the 

 length of the first: first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slant- 

 ing, forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by 

 thrice its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, as long as the first ; third almost straight, 

 slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth almost 

 straight, forming a slightly acute angle, longer and more slanting 

 than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a slightly acute angle. 

 .\llicd to C. Serricnsta, but has no black on the chest. 



Male. — Body olive-green, short and broad, partly clothed with 



