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ing a little beyond the hind-hips : eyes rather prominent : feelers 

 black ; fore-chesl rather short, narrower in front than behind ; scut- 

 cheon mostly black along the fore border and the hind border and 

 in the furrows ; hind-scutcheon tawny, mostly pitchy along the fore 

 border, widened and forming a very obtuse angle near the base of 

 each fore-wing, very slightly excavated on each side : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest rather long, adorned with four broad black stripes, 

 the outer pair are obconical till near their lips and then much 

 widened; the side pair are much shorter, almost united, and are 

 succeeded by a large slightly cross-shaped black spot which rests on 

 the fore-side of the cross-ridge; excavation on the hind border rather 

 deep: abdomen obconical, very little longer than the chest; seg- 

 ments mostly black above with the exception of the sides and of the 

 hind borders : opercula none ; lymbals tawny ; drums small, tawny, 

 blackish at the base and on the inner side, parted by a narrow inter- 

 val : legs tawny ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed 

 with two teeth ; one small, yellow, near the base ; the other long, 

 tawny towards the tip ; wings colourless, with a pitchy spot beneath 

 the fore border at the base adjoining the primitive areolet ; veins 

 black, lawny towards the base ; fore border beset with very short 

 spines, tawny as far as the pitchy brand, pitchy towards the tip with 

 the exception of a tawny spot which is a little beyond the brand ; 

 fore-membranes brownish tawny ; flaps brownish tawny at the base, 

 on the fore borders and along the black middle-veiu. Length of 

 the body 7i lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



79. Cicada Astus, Mas. 



Nervus trartsversus ]us subcurvus, valtle obliquus, anffulum Valdi 

 obtmum fingens, 2o plus triptd ejus lonj/itudine divistts ; 2us 

 subcurotts, valdi obliquus, angulum valdi obtusum fingens, 

 \o paulld longior ; 3us fer^ rectus, subobliquus, angulum 

 subaculum fingens ; 4us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum sub- 

 acutwn fingens, 3o multo longior. 



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

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

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than thrice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very 

 obtuse angle, a little longer than the first ; third nearly straight, 

 slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth slightly 

 curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than 

 than the third ; fifth very slightly curved, upright, forming a right 



