182 LIST OF UOMOl'TunOUS INSECTS. 



an obtuse angle, parted from tlie second by nearly four times its 

 length ; second sliglitly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, very much longer than the first ; third curved, slanting, forming 

 an almost right angle ; fourth curved, slanting, forming a hardly 

 ac\ite angle, longer than the third ; fifth very slightly curved, up- 

 right, fonning a hardly obtuse angle. 



il/afc.— Body black : head and chest clothed with short black 

 hairs : head hardly narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with a 

 slender interrupted tawny stripe ; face slighlly convex, not at all 

 prominent, red on each side in front : eyes rather prominent : 

 feelers black, stout : fore-chest a little narrower before than behind ; 

 scutcheon adorned with a red slender stripe which does not reach 

 the hind border ; hind-scutcheon narrow above, broader and rounded 

 at the base of each fore-wing, somewhat excavated along each side : 

 sides, cross-ridge and hind bolder of the scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest tinged with red ; hind border very slightly excavated : abdo- 

 men obconical, a little longer than the chest, adorned with whitish 

 shining down ; hind borders of the segments, tip and under side 

 bright red : opercula none ; tymbals green ; drums very small, dark 

 red, blackish towards the base, wide apart: legs black, rather 

 hairy ; fore-thighs streaked with red, armed with three long black 

 teetii whose tips are dark red ; knees red ; a tawny band near the 

 base of each of the four hinder shanks ; hind-shanks tawny beneath 

 towards the tips ; hind-feet pale tawny with black tips : wing co- 

 lourless ; fore border dark red, rather convex ; veins black, tawny 

 and marked with black at the base ; fore-flaps grayish ; hind-flaps 

 brown at the base and along some part of the hind-border and at 

 the tips. 



Fem. — Abdomen a little longer than that of the male ; last 

 segment red with the exception of two black stripes which diverge 

 towards the tip : oviduct red. 



Length of the body 8 — 9 lines ; of the wings 25—26 lines. 



131. Cicada antica, Mas. 



Nermts Iramversus lus rectus, ereclus, angulum ohtusum finqens, 

 2o sexties ejus longitudine dioistis ; 2m suhcurviis, obliquus, 

 angulum valde oblusum fingens, \o longior ; 3»m feri rectns, 

 obliquus, angulum feri rectum fingens ; ius subcurvus, obli- 

 quus, angulum rectum fingens, 3o mullb longior. 

 Second marginal areolet much more than three-fourths of the 

 length of the first : lirst cross-vein straight, upright, forming an ob- 



