LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 1«9 



tlie red hind border ; hind-scutcheon narrow and adorned with a red 

 hand above, slightly widened on each side : scutcheon of the mid- 

 dle-chest adorned with a narrow red border and with two red stripes ; 

 hind border slightly excavated ; abdomen tapering from the base 

 to the tip, much longer than the chest, brown on each side to- 

 wards the base beneath ; hind borders of the segments red ; drums 

 very small, far apart, pale yellow, their disks black : legs black, 

 clothed with short hoary and black hairs, adorned with red stripes ; 

 claws red ; fore-thighs armed with rather long black teeth ; hind- 

 shanks l)eset with red spines : wings colourless, yellow at the base 

 and along the fore border ; veins red, black towards the tips ; tips 

 of the flaps clouded with black. Length of the body 7^ lines ; of 

 the wings 24 lines. 



a. Port Stephen, New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



139. Cicada incipiens, Fem. 



Nervus trmisversus lus rectus, erectus, angulumsuhobliisumfingcns, 

 2o pins duplb ejus Imu/itudme divisus ; 2j« subcurvus, feri 

 erectus, unguium ohtusum fi.igens, \o paullb longior ; 3us 

 subcurvus, valdi obliquus, unguium acutum fingens ; Ausfere 

 rectus, obliquus, unguium rectum fingens, 3i dimidio brevior. 

 Second marginal areolet full three-fourths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein straight, upright, forming a slightly obtuse 

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

 second vciy slightly curved, nearly upright, fonning an obtuse an- 

 gle, a little longer than the first ; third very slightly curved, very 

 slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth almost straight, slanting, 

 fonning a right angle, not half the length of the third ; tiftli very 

 slightly curved, upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. Body 

 black, rather short: head fully as broad as the fove-chcst: face 

 rather prominent, forming a very obtuse angle, adorned with a 

 tawny mark on each side in front: eyes prominent: fore-chest not 

 narrower in front, adorned with a slight tawny stripe ; hind- 

 scutcheon narrow above, slightly widened on each side : scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest adorned with two slightly waved tawny stripes ; 

 hind border tawny, slightly excavated : hind-chest mostly tawny : 

 abdomen tapering, bright tawny, much longer than the chest, mostly 

 black above at the base, whence three black stripes composed of 

 spots dwindle along the back and disappear at some distance from 

 the tip : legs tawny, striped with black, clothed with short tawny 

 hairs ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with three 

 rather long teeth : feelers dark tawny : wings colourless, tawny at 



