LIST OK IIOMOPTEROUS INSECTS 



111. Cicada viridula, Mas. 



Nervus tratisverstts 2us rectvx, subohliquus, unguium reclmn 

 fingms ; 3us subcurvus, obliaum, artgiilum rectum fingens, 2o 

 longior ; Axis rectus, valdi obliquus, unguium rectum fingens, 

 So multi) longior. 

 Second cross-vein straight, slightly slanting, forming a right 

 angle ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming a right angle, 

 longer than the second ; fourth straight, very slanting, forming a 

 right angle, much longer than the third; fifth straight, slightly 

 slanting, forming a hardly acute angle. Body slender, bright vel- 

 vety green, thinly clothed with golden hairs, as liroad as the foie- 

 chest ; face very convex and prominent : mouth tawny with a black 

 tip, reacliing the middle hips : eyes prominent : feelers pitchy at 

 the base : fore-chest hardly narrower in front than behind ; scutcheon 

 adorned on each side with a very large tawny spot ; hind-scutcheon 

 narrow in the middle, widened and extending a little beyond the 

 scutcheon near the base of each fore-wing, nearly straight on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle chest adorned with a large tawny 

 spot on each side, its hind border not excavated : abdomen tawny, 

 slightly obconical, not longer than the chest, pale tawny near the 

 base which is pitchy, mostly green on the disk and having a pitchy 

 band near the tip which is hairy : opercula none ; tymbals pale 

 tawny ; drums black, small, not far apart : legs pale tawny ; fore- 

 legs darker ; fore-thighs armed with four stout teeth ; middle and 

 hind-shanks pale green ; tips of the claws black : wings colourless, 

 tinged with brown at the tips ; fore border pale tawny : brands 

 darker, large ; veins dark tawny, black towards the tijis ; fore-flaps 

 pale tawny ; hind-flaps pale tawny at the base and along some part 

 of the bind border ; the disk of this part is pale brown, and it has a 

 dark brown spot at the base. Length of tjie body 4^ lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



112. Cicada cingulata. 



Cicada cingulata, Oliv. Enc. Mith. v. 752, 2(). Gmel. Ed. Si/st. 



Nat.i. 3,2096, 7(i. 

 Tettigonia cingulata, Fahr. Sgsl. Ent. 680, 9. Sp. Ins. ii. 320, 10. 



Mant. Ins.'ii. 266, II. 



a—f. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 

 g. New Zealand. From M. Pelerin's collection. 



