LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. M^ 



angular above the base of each fore-win(f, not indented on each side; 

 sciilcheon of the middle-chest adorned with indistinct traces of ler. 

 ruginous stripes; hind border moderately excavated : abdomen oh. 

 conical, hardly longer than the chest : opercula none ; tymbals 

 whitish ; drums pale green, of moderate size, nearly meeting, less 

 than one-third of the length of the abdomen : legs green, tinged 

 with tawny ; feet dark tawny with pitcdiy tips ; claws dark lawny 

 with black tips ; fore-thighs armed with three tciwny teeth, first large, 

 oblique, second small, third very small ; fore-shanks beset beneath 

 with tawny bristles : wings colourless ; tips of the fore-wings tinged 

 with brown ; fore border green, varied with tawny, pitchy beyond 

 the brand, beset with very short spines ; veins black, green towards 

 the base ol' the fore-wings, tawny towards the base of the hind-wings ; 

 primitive areolet tawny ; fore-flaps ferruginous ; hind-flaps ferrugi- 

 nous at tbe base and for a short space along the hind border and 

 along the borders of the veius. Length of the body 10 lines; of 

 the wings 35 lines, 

 n. Para. Presented by Reginald Graham, Esq. 



76. Cicada Ornea, Mas. 



Nenus Iransversiis lus subciirvus, suhobtiquus, anfiutum suboilu- 

 smn fingetm, 2o quinquies ejus lim^iltiiline divisus ; 2us sub- 

 cm vits, obliquus, unguium valde oblii.suiii fitii/cns, lo lonffior ; 

 'Aus subcurmis, subobliquus, unguium m-lum fingcns ; 4us 

 undultis, vatde obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens, 'io plus 

 duplh tongior. 



Second marginal areolet much less than two-thirds of the length 

 of the first : first cross-vein slightly curved, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly obtuse angle, parted from the second by five times its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slanting, (bnning a very obtuse 

 angle, longer than the first ; third very slightly curved, slightly 

 slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth waved, very slanting, form- 

 ing an acute angle, more than twice the length of the third ; fifth 

 curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black : 

 head a little narrower than the fore-chest, adorned on the hind bor- 

 der with a middle tawny triangular mark and with a forked mark on 

 each side; on each side in fiont are two tawny marks and between 

 at the base of the feelers a green mark ; face convex, adorned with 

 tawny bands on each side : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching 

 the hind-hips : eyes rather prominent : feelers black, partly ferrugi- 

 nous : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned on each side With two 

 broad tawny stripes which are irregular in outline and partly exoa- 



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