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black above, adorned in front with two black stripes which send forth 

 black Imnds on each side : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaehinff 

 the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers tawny, pitchy at the base ; 

 fiire-chesl rather short, narrower before than behind ; scutcheon 

 adorned in the middle with two pitchy stripes which are widened be- 

 fore and behind ; furrows dark tawny ; hind-scutcheon rather narrow, 

 much widened at the base of each fore-wing, very slightly excava- 

 ted on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four 

 large obconical pitchy stripes ; outer pair much longer than the inner 

 pair, mostly ferruginous towards the tips ; inner pair excepting the 

 base bordered with pale tawny which forms a double U figure ; sides 

 and hind border tawny, the latter slightly excavated : abdomen pitchy, 

 obconical, shorter than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny ; last segment adorned with a tawny middle stripe and with 

 two forked tawny side stripes : oviduct pitchy : legs tawny ; thighs 

 streaked with brown ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at the base ; 

 fore-thighs armed with two long pitchy teeth ; fore-shanks dark 

 tawny, rather hairy : wings colourless ; veins tawny, marked with 

 black at the base, black towards the tips ; fore border tawny as far 

 as the brand, pitchy from thence till near the tip ; primitive areolet 

 bnff; fore-membrane grayish ; flaps buff towards the base. Length 

 of ihe'body 9 lines; of the wings 28 lines. 



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



77. Cicada Cuta, Fern. 



Nervus transvemts \us suhcumus, obliguus, angulum valde oblu- 

 sum finffefii, 2o quadrupld ejus longitudine divism ; 2us sub- 

 curitus, obtiquus, angulum obtusum fingens, \o brevior ; .3i/.« 

 fere rectus, obliquus, angulum vix acutum fingens ; 4us 

 stibundaius, obtiquus angulum subacutum fingens, 3o muUl) 

 Itimjior. 



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

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

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

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, shorter 

 than the first; third nearly straight, slanting, forming a hardly acute 

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

 angle, much longer than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming 

 a right angle. Body tawny, rather short and broad : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; face convex, not prominent, adorned 

 with a short black stripe ; an irregular black stripe across the crown: 

 mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching a short distance beyond the 



