LIST OF HOMOPTEROOS INSECTS. 



116. Cicada Cutora, Fern. 



Nervus transversvs 1 vs curvus, erectus, angulum rectum fingem, 2o 

 plus quadruplh ejus longitudine dimsus ; 2us curvus, subobli- 

 gutts, angulum obtusum fingens, \o mulld longior ; 3«s sub- 

 curviis, obliqiius, angulum rectum Jin gens ; ins rectus, angulum 

 subacutuni fingens, 3o obliquior et multl) longior. 

 Second marginal areolet nearly as long as llie first : first cross- 

 vein curved, upright, forming a right angle, parted from the second 

 by much more than four times its length ; second curved, slightly 

 slanting, forming an obtuse angle, much longer than the first; 

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

 straight, forming a slightly acute angle, more slanting and much 

 longer than the third ; fifth nearly straight, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly obtuse angle. Body green, tinged with tawny : head 

 much narrower than the chest, adorned with a short black band be- 

 tween the face and the eyelets; face slightly convex, not at all 

 prominent: mouth tawny : eyes not prominent: feelers black: fore- 

 chest narrower in front than'behind ; scutcheon adorned with two 

 pale green slender parallel stripes which are close together ; hind- 

 scutcheon narrow in the middle, rounded and much widened above 

 the base of the fore-wing, slightly convex and not excavated on each 

 side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with three broad tawny 

 oblique stripes, the side pair longer than the middle one ; hind bor- 

 der hardly excavated ; abdomen obconical, longer than the chest: 

 oviduct ferruginous, its tip black and serrated ; legs lawny ; thighs 

 green, fore-thighs armed with three tawny black-tipped teeth, two 

 long, one small : wings colourless ; fore border red, pitchy towards 

 the tip ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; fore-flaps pale tawny ; 

 hind-flaps tinged with green at the base and along the middle-vein, 

 tinged with brown along the fore border. Length of the body 10 

 lines ; of the wings 27 lines. 



117. Cicada MELANOpyou. 

 Cicada inelanopygia, Germ. Sill. Rev. Ent. ii. 09, 9. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 

 b—f. New Holland. 



