1 04 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



reaching a little beyond the middle-hips : eyes prominent : feelers 

 Wack : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with two black spots on 

 each side and witli a broad black stripe which is much widened on 

 the fore border and on the hind border, and encloses a green streak; 

 hind-scutcheon rather broad, widened at the base of each fore-wing, 

 pitchy and slightly excavated on each side : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest adorned with four very broad black stripes which are united at 

 the base, the inner pair are much shorter than the outer pair, and 

 have a black ring round the hind part, and are succeeded by 

 two black dots ; tips of the outer pair united with a black streak 

 along each side ; a pitchy spot on the cross-ridge ; hind border very 

 slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 adorned with pitchy bands on the fore borders of the segments ; a 

 broad pitchy band on each side beneath : opercula tawny, rather 

 large ; drums pale green, of moderate size, meeting beneath ; legs 

 green, clothed with short white hairs ; hips and thighs adorned with 

 pitchy streaks ; feet and fore-shanks pitchy ; tips of the clawsblact ; 

 lore-thighs armed with two long pitchy teeth : wings colourless ; fore 

 border and veins green along half the length, black from thence to 

 the tips ; first, second and third cross-veins clouded with brown ; a 

 brown spot at the tip of each of the flaps. Length of the body 10 

 lines ; of the wings .30 lines. 



a. Mexico. From Mr. Hartweg's collection. 



93. Cicada sex-gcttata, Mas. 



Nervus transverms Ins curvus, obiiquus, angulum subobtusum fin- 

 gens, 2» plus duptd ejus hngitudine divisus ; 2ns feri rectus, 

 valda obliquns, angulum perobtusum fingens, Xo vix longior; 

 Sus subcurmis, obiiquus, angulum aculum fingens ; ius valde 

 curvus, subobliquus, angulum aculum fingens, 3o mullh lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet full half the length of the first : first 

 cross-vein curved, .slanting, forming a slightly obtuse angle, parted^ 

 from the second by much more than twice its length ; second nearly 

 straight, very slanting, ftu'niing an extremely obtuse angle, hardly 

 longer than the first; third slightly curved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle; fourth very much curved, slightly slanting, forming 

 an acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth slightly curved, 

 upright, fiuming a hardly acute angle. Body greenish-tawny : head 

 iiaiTower than the fore-chest, adorned with two black stripes which 

 traverse the region of the eyelets, and are partly united, slightly 

 widened on the hind border, somewhat branched in front ; on each 



