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very sliglilly curved, slanling, forming an acute angle, longer than 

 llie third ; fifth slightly curved, upright, forming a right angle. 

 Body black, narrow : head nearly as broad as the (bre-clicst ; a very 

 small tawny spot between the eyelets; face convex, not prominent, 

 adorned in front with a tawny border : month tawny with a black 

 lip, reaching the hind-hips : feelers black: eyes rather prominent : 

 lure-chest very little narrower before than behind ; scutcheon adorned 

 with six red stripes, the middle pair slightly curved, narrower than 

 the other four, of which the outer pair are nearly tiiangular ; hind- 

 scutcbeon wrinkled, narrow, rounded, slightly widened and reddish 

 on the hind border above the base of each fore-wing, much indented 

 and armed with a stout tooth on each side : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest dark red on each side and on the hind border which is slightly 

 excavated: abdomen obconical, longer than the chest; underside 

 dark red at the tip, across the base, and on each side of the hind 

 borders of the segments: drums small, tawny, black at the base, 

 Slime distance apart: legs black, clothed with short while hairs; 

 thighs adorned with pale red stripes ; daws dark red, black towards 

 the tips ; middle-shanks pitchy with pale red stripes, adorned with a 

 tawny band near the base; hind-sbanks dull red, tawny at he tips, 

 adorned with a tawny band near the base which is pitchy : fore-thighs 

 armed with three ferruginous teeih, which are black towards the base, 

 two very large, the third small : hind-feet red, darker at the base and 

 at the tips: wings colourless ; fore border dark red as far as the brand, 

 pitchy with dark red streaks from thence towards the tip ; veins dark 

 red, black towards the tips; first and second cross-veins clouded 

 witli brown ; veins of the hind-wings tawny, black towards the lips ; 

 flaps mostly white. Length of the body 7^ lines ; of the wings 21 

 lines, 

 fl. New Holland. 



128. Cicada Melkte, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus Iransversus Ins fere rectus, suhnbliquus, unguium obtusum 

 Jingem, 2o quadruplh ejus lotu/itudine divisus ; 2its subcur- 

 vus, subobliijuus, angulum obtusum Jingens, \i longitudine ; 

 Zus vix undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens ; ius mx 

 undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens, lo paulld lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet much more than three-fourths of the 

 length of the first : first cross-vein almost straight, slightly slanling, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by four times its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 



