LIST OF HOMOPTKROUS INSECTS. 



143. Cicada diveusa, Mas. 



Nervus transversus \ns subcurvus, fere erectus, angulum suhohht- 

 sum Jingens, 2o feri Iriplb ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, vuhU obliguus, angulum pernbtusum fingens, \o 

 multb longior ; 3«s subcurvus, ohliquus, angulum rectum 

 Jingens ; 4us fere rectus, obliquus, angulum vix acutum fin- 

 gens, 3i longitudine. 

 Second inavginal areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein slightly curved, nearly upright, fonning a very slightly 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; 

 second very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, very much longer than the first ; third very slightly 

 curved, slanting, forming a right angle ; fourth nearly straight, 

 slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, upriglit, forming a slightly acute angle. Body 

 lilack above, tawny beneath : head small, much narrower than the 

 fore-chest; crown adorned with three tawny spots on the hind 

 border, and at the base of each feeler with a large lawuy spot which 

 nearly incloses a black dot; face \'ery convex, not prominent, black 

 in front, beneath tawny with a black slripe : mouth pale tawuy with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind hips : eyes not prominent : feelers 

 black : fore-chest narrower before than behind : scutcheon adorned 

 with a tawny stripe which joins the middle spot on the hind border, 

 and with two slightly oblique tawny streaks on each side : hind- 

 scutcheon very naiTow above, much widened on each side ; its hind 

 border tawny : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two in- 

 distinct tawny streaks, by which it is imperfectly divided into the 

 usual obconical stripes ; sides, cross-ridge and hind border tawny, 

 the latter slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, a little broader 

 and much longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments and 

 the whole surface on one-third of the breadth of each side tawny : 

 opercula none ; tymbals grayish-tawny ; drums pale tawny, rather 

 small, pitcliy at tlie base, meeting in the middle : leg's tawny ; hips 

 and thighs adorned with pitchy streaks ; tips of the shanks and of 

 the feet pitchy ; claws black ; rore-thighs anned with two long black 

 teeth whose tips are ferrnginous : wings colourless ; fore border 

 tawny; veins black, ferruginous towards the base; fore-flaps yel- 

 low; hind-flaps yellow at the base and along the veins, and for a 

 short space along the hind border ; an indistinct cross-vein in the 

 first discoidal areolet of the left hind-wing. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



