LIST OF HOMOPTEHOUS INSECTS. 



forming an acute angle, parted from tbe second by four times its 

 length ; second very slightly waved, slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, much longer than the first ; third nearly straight, slightly 

 slanting, forming a right angle; fourth slightly waved, slanting, 

 forming a slightly acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth 

 almost straight, nearly upright, forming a hardly obtuse angle. 

 Body ferruginous, tinged with green : head much narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; fiice small, very convex, rather prominent : mouth tawny 

 wilh a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : feelers 

 tawny, ferruginous at tbe base: fore-chest narrower in front than be- 

 hind ; scutcheon adorned with some oblique dark ferruginous marks 

 between the furrows which also have that colour ; hind-scutcheon 

 rounded and much widened at the base of each fore-wing, slightly 

 convex and not excavated on each side : bind border of the scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest hardly excavated : abdomen longer than the 

 chest, hairy towards the tip; oviduct pitchy: legs tawny; thighs 

 and shanks adorned with ferruginous stripes ; feet ferruginous to- 

 wards the lips; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed 

 wilh one large ferruginous tooth which is near the tip : wings colour- 

 le.ss; fore borders and veins tawny. Leugth of the body 10 lines; 

 of the wings 28 lines. 

 a. South America. 



91. Cicada Hiulndo, Mas. 



Nervm transversui Ins ctirvus, suhohliquus, angulum oblusum 

 fimiens, 2o plus dupl/t ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us mbcur- 

 t)iM, obliijuus, anffulum valde obtusmn finyens, \o pauUb bre- 

 vior ; 3«s mbcurvus, obliqmis, angtdum subacutum fingem ; 

 ius feri rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fingens, So 

 multb brei'ior. 

 Second marginal areolet a little more than half the length of 

 tbe first: first cross-vein curved, slightly slanting, forming an ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from tbe second by much more than twice its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle," very little shorter than the first; third very slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming a slightly acute angle; fourth almost straight, 

 slanting, forming a very slightly acute augle, much shorter than the 

 third ; fifth thick, straight, very slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle. Body short, ferruginous : head a little narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; crown adorned with a square-shaped dark ferruginous 

 spot, on each side of which there is a little pitchy cross, and beyond 

 the latter a dark ferruginous stripe which communicates in front with 



