178 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECIS. 



full twice the length of the first ; third nearly straight, slanting, 

 forming a very slightly acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming an acute angle, very much longer than the third ; 

 fifth almost straight, upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. 

 Body black, narrow, partly clothed witli whitish shining down : head 

 hardly as broad as the fore-chest, adorned with a yellow triangular 

 spot which rests on the hind border and is partly between the eye- 

 lets ; face slightly convex, not at all prominent, adorned with a red 

 stripe on each side and in front : mouth black, red towards the base, 

 reaching the middle hips : eyes very prominent : feelers black, 

 stout: fore-chest rather short, a little narrower in front than be- 

 hind ; scutcheon adorned with a red fore-border ; hind-scutcheon 

 red, narrow, black along the fore border, rounded and widened at 

 the base of each fore-wing, not excavated on each side : scutcheon 

 of the middle chest red, rather long, adorned with four very broad 

 obconical black stripes, the outer pair much longer than the inner 

 pair which are succeeded by a large conical black spot resting on 

 the cross ridge ; hind border very slightly excavated : abdomen ob- 

 conical, very much longer than the chest ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments red i tip tawny : under side red, adorned with a black stripe 

 wliich is widened towards the tip : opercula none ; tymbals hoary ; 

 drums very small, tawny, l)lack towards the biise, very wide apart : 

 legs red ; fore-thighs armed with three red teeth, two of which are 

 very long, the third very small : wings colourless ; veins pale red, 

 black towards the tips, tawny at the base ; fore border tawny as far 

 as the brand, ferruginous from thence towards the tip ; fore-mem- 

 branes tawny ; flaps tawny along the middle-vein and having a very 

 small brown spot at the tip of the fore border. Length of the body 

 8 lines : of the wings 23 lines. 



127. Cicada Damater, Mas. 



Nervm transversus l«s rectus, feri ereclus, angulum subobtusum 

 fingens, 2o tripld ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 subobliquus, angulum oblusiim fingens, lolonginr; 3us sub- 

 rectus, ohliqum, unguium vix acutum fingens ; 4tt.i subcurvus, 

 obtiquus, unguium ucutum fingens, 3o longior. 

 Second marginal arenlet nearly as long as ihe first : first cross- 

 vein straight, nearly upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by ihrice its length ; second very slightly curved, 

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

 third nearly straight, slanting, forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth 



