LIST OY HOMOPTEnoUS INSl-.CTS. 



141. Cicada quabricinota, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, obliguus, angulum oblusum 

 fingcns, 2o plus duplb ejus longitudine divistis ; 2us subcur- 

 vus, angulum value obtusum jingens, \o obliquior et paullh 

 longior ; 3ms siibundatus, obliijuus, angulum vix aculum fin- 

 gen ; 4ms subundatus, obliquus, angulum subaculum fingens, 

 3o ■paullh longior. 

 Second marginal areolet two-thirds of the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a 

 slightly ohtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than 

 thrice its length ; second slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming 

 an obtuse angle, a little longer than the first; third very slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth almost stvaighr, 

 slightly slanting, forming a right angle, shorter than the third ; 

 fifth slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly obtuse an- 

 gle. Body black : head nearly as broad as tlie fore-chest, adorned 

 with a tawny spot on each side of the face which has a tawny dot 

 on its hind border, and is .slightly convex and not at all prominent : 

 mouth black, reaching the middle-hips: feelers black ; eyes hardly 

 prominent : fore-ciiest much broader than long ; scutcheon adorned 

 with two tawny spots in front and with one near each side which is 

 pale tawny : hind-scutcheon narrow above, broader and rounded 

 near tlie base of each fore-wing, straight on each side, ferruginous 

 along the hind border: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with 

 two oblique ferruginous stripes on each side ; hind border slightly 

 excavated: abdomen pitchy, obconical, not longer than the chest ; 

 hind borders of the segments adorned with ferruginous and green 

 bands ; a tawny stripe on each side beneath : opercula none ; tym- 

 bals dingy white with black bands ; drums rather large, almost 

 white, more than one-third of the length of the abdomen, parted by 

 a narrow space : legs tawny ; thighs and shanks striped with black : 

 feet and fore-shanks black: wings colourless; fore border ferrugi- 

 nous for near Iwo-thirds of its length, and thence black for a short 

 space ; veins ferruginous, black towards the tips ; fore-flaps whitish ; 

 liind-fla))S colourless, white with blackish disks for a space along 

 the hind border from the base. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Capt. Grey. 



