I8fi LIST OP HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tawny with a red streak from thence till near the tip ; veins black, 

 tawny at the base ; fore-membranes red ; flaps pale red at the base 

 and along the veins. Length of the body 5—6 lines ; of the wings 

 15—16 lines. 



a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. New Holland. 



135. Cicada singula, Fem. 

 Nervus transversus \us feri rectus, erectus, migulum subobhisum 

 fingens, 2o plus triplb ejus longiludine divisus ; 2itsfere rec- 

 lus,xubobliyuus, angulumoblmum fingens, \o paultb longior ; 

 Sus vix undatus, oUiqmis, anguhtm subacutumfingens ; Aus 

 subcurints, obliqttiis, angulum amtum fivgens, Zo longior. 

 Second marginal areolet three-fourths of the length of the first : 

 livst cross-vein almost straight, upright, forming a slightly obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by more than thrice its length ; second 

 almost straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtnse angle, a little 

 longer than the first; third hardly waved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle, longer than the third ; fifth very slightly curved, nearly 

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black, like that of C. 

 iiiullifaseia in shape: head dark red, a little broader than the fore- 

 chest; face black, slightly convex, not all prominent: mouth dark 

 red, reaching near the hind-hips : eyes prominent : feelers pitchy with 

 whitish tips : fore-chest linear, adorned with a dark red stripe which 

 is widened in front and behind ; hind-scutcheon dark red, narrow 

 above, broader on each side where it extends beyond the scutcheon : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two dark red parallel 

 stripes ; sides dark red ; hind border pale tawny, hardly excavated: 

 abdomen oblanceolate, nearly twice the length of the cliest, pale red 

 beneath ; hind borders of the segments adorned with narrow entire 

 tawny bands which are wider on each side than in the middle; band 

 of the penultimate segment broad but partly interrupted; last seg- 

 ment tawny, adorned with two black stripes which in front are 

 continued across to the sides of the abdomen, and are united behind 

 to a slender black stripe which runs between and extends to the tip : 

 legs tawny ; thighs dark tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-legs 

 ferruginous ; fore-thighs armed with three long pitchy teeth : wings 

 colourless ; fore border pale red ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the 

 base ; fore membranes tawny ; flaps tawny at the base and along 

 the middle vein. The specimen described may be immature. 

 J^ength of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



