196 LIST OF UOMOPTEROUa INSECTS. 



winpi colourless ; fore l)order and veins tawny. Length of the body 



7 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



o. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



147. Cicada crpcifera, Mas. 



Nervui transversus lus subcurvu.'! valde ohliquus, anyiilum perob- 

 Imiim Jingens, 2» plus dupli) ejus longitudine divisus ; 2i« 

 sitbcitrvus, subobiiquus, angutum obtusum fingms, \o multb 

 brevinr ; Sits vix undatus, subobtiquus, anguluni subacutum 

 fingens ; Alts vix undatus, 3o multb longior et obliqitior el 

 angulum aculiorem fingens. 

 Second marginal areolet very much longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming an extremely ob- 

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

 length ; second slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, much shorter than the first ; third indistinctly waved, slightly 

 slanting, forming a slightly acute angle : fourth indistinctly waved, 

 much longer, more slanting and forming a more acute angle than 

 the third ; fifth slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly 

 acute angle. Body tawny, paler beneath : liead narrower than the 

 chest ; region of the eyelets black, sending forth on each side to the 

 eyes two black bands which, being united at the base, include tawny 

 spaces between them ; face prominent, very convex, adorned above 

 with a semicircular black mark which is broader on each side than 

 in front : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching a little beyond 

 the middle-hips : eyes rather prominent : feelers black : fore-chest 

 hardly narrower in front than behind ; sides, hind border and fur- 

 rows of the scutcheon black, its disk adorned with two black spots 

 near the fore border, behind these are four black spots, and the latter 

 are succeeded by a forked black spot which joins the hind border; 

 hind-scutcheon narrow, adorned with a pitchy mark on the fore 

 border near the base of each fore-wing, where it is rounded and 

 much widened, its sides are much excavated : scutcheon of the 

 middle-chest adorned with three very large black marks ; side pairs 

 obconical, very broad at the l)ase, extending near to the hind border, 

 each enclosing a little tawny stripe ; middle one semicircular, join- 

 ing a black cross which adorns the cross-ridge; hind border not pro- 

 minent : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest ; disk above 

 black with the exception of the hind borders of the segments, which 

 are more or less tawny ; horn tawny: opercula rather large, close, 

 pale tawny, pitchy on the inner side ; drums large, pale lawny, 

 slightly overlapping, somewhat less than half the length of the ab- 



