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side of tliese are two black oblique stripes and one black spot, the 

 latter behind the eye ; a black stripe in iron I across the face which 

 is very slightly convex and not at all prominent; mouth pale tawny 

 with a black tip ? : eyes prominent: feelers black : fore-chest nar- 

 rower in front than behind ; scutcheon adorned with two black parallel 

 stripes which are united on the hind border, and are widened into 

 two angles on the outer side ; a short curved pitchy mark on each 

 side between the furrows which are also pitchy ; side borders black ; 

 hind-scutcheon much broader on each side than in the middle, 

 adorned with three pitchy spots and forminpf an obtuse angle near 

 the base of each fore-wing, slightly excavated towards the fore bor- 

 der: disk of the scutcheon of the middle-chest green, adorned with 

 three indistinct obconical broad tawny stripes, the middle one is 

 divided by a slender black stripe which extends beyond it towards 

 the hind border, and each of its sides is bordered with black for two- 

 thirds of the length from the base; four irregular black spots on 

 each of the side stripes ; hind border hardly excavated : abdomen 

 lawny, obconical, longer than the chest, pitchy at the base : opercula 

 tawny ; small ; drums very small, pale yellow, wide apart : legs 

 yellowish-green ; a pitchy spot near the tip of each thigh ; (ore-thighs 

 armed with two long pitchy teeth; claws black, yellow at the base; 

 fore-feet pitchy at the base and at the tips : wings colourless ; veins 

 green, banded \,vith black across the middle beneath the brands, 

 quite black towards the tips; brands pitchy; fore border green, 

 tawny towards the tip ; cross-veins from the first to the fourth clouded 

 with brown ; a row of brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal 

 veins of the marginal areolets ; a sharp black spine at the base of 

 each fore-wing. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 30 

 lines. 



94. Cicada stipata, Fem. 



Nerviis transversm Itts vix vmlatus, obliquus, angulum rectum fin- 

 gens, 1o plus tripld ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us vix undatus, 

 subohliquus angulum valde oblvsum fingens, io longior ; 3us 

 undatus, obliquus, angulum subacutmn Jingem ; 4us subuti- 

 datus, obliquus, angulum sitbaculum fingens, 3o brevior. 

 First cross-vein hardly waved, slanting, forming a right angle, 

 parted from the second by much more than thrice its length ; second 

 indistinctly waved, slightly slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, 

 longer than the first ; third waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute 

 angle ; fourth slightly waved, slanting, formlDg a slightly acute an- 



