J3-2 LIST OP HOMOrTEnOUS INSECTS. 



curved, upright, forming a slightly acute angle. Body dark tawny, 

 tinged with gieen, short, hroad, partly clothed »ilh shining tawny 

 down: head short, hroad, a little narrower than the fore chest, 

 adorned with a black band across the eyelets; face slightly convex, 

 adorned on the disk with three black spots : mouth tawny with a 

 black tip, rcacliing near to the hind-hips : eyes not prominetil : 

 feelers black: fore-chest much narrower in front than behind ; scut- 

 cheon adorned with two rather large black spots on the fore border, 

 and with three small united black spots on the hind border; hind- 

 scutcheon dark gi-een, rather broad, very slightly waved along the 

 hind border, forming a very obtuse angle above the base of the Ibre- 

 wiug near which it is beset with some short black bristles, hardly in- 

 dented on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned in front 

 with four black stripes ; outer pair ohconical ; inner pair much shorter, 

 nearly forming two semicircles ; two black dots near the cross-ridge; 

 hind border rather deeply excavated : abdomen ohconical, a little 

 shorter than the chest, adorned with black which is chiefly on the 

 fore borders of the segments, and forms two very irregular curved 

 stripes, these are united at the tip ; on the under side the black rather 

 assumes the appearance of three bands, one at the base, one in the 

 mid<llc, and one at the tip : legs tawny, tinged with green, partly 

 ferruginous; feet tdack ; fore-shanks tawny ; claws black, tawny at 

 the base ; hind-leet tawny, pitchy at the lips and at the base ; fore- 

 thighs armed with two ferruginous teeth of moderate size: wings 

 colourless, brown at the base and on the primitive areolet; fore bor- 

 der ferruginous in front and black behind as far as the brand, 

 black in front and ferruginous behind from thence towards the tip ; 

 veins Idack, green towards the base in the fore-wings, tawny towards 

 the base in the hind-wings. Length of the body 12 lines; of the 

 wings 43 lines. 

 a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir R. Schomburghk. 



70. Cicada Lacbines, Fem. 



Nerinis Iransversiis \iis stibcurims, valiU obliqum, anffulum perob- 



tusum /ivffenx, in phis duplb ejus longitudine divisvs ; 2ms 



subcitrvm, obliquvs, angulum valdi oblnsiiiii Jiiiiiciin, lo bre- 



ttior ; 3us subundatiis,obliquus,an(/tiiiitn uciihiin /ini/etis ; 4us 



fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subaculum fivgcns, 3o paullli 



longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of the length ol 



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



an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than 



