LIST OF IIOMOPTEIIOIIS INSECTS. 



151. Cicada puer, Mas. 



Nervus Iransvcrsus \us reettts, ereclus, angulum suboblusum fin- 

 gens, 2o paulld pivs dupll) ejus Inngitudine divhus ; 2«s 

 feri rectus, suhohliqiius, angulum nbtusumjingens, \o ■paullli 

 lungior ; 3us subeurvus, obliquus, angulum obliisum fingens ; 

 4us subcurviis, subobliquus, angtUum obtusum fingens, 3n 

 pauUt) brevior. 

 Second marginal areolet as long as the first: first cross-vein 

 straight, upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle, parted from the 

 second by a little more than twice its length ; second almost straight, 

 slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, a little lonyer than the 

 first; third very slightly curved, slanting, fonning an obtuse angle ; 

 fourth very slightly curved, slightly slanting, fonning an obtuse an- 

 gle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth very slightly curved, nearly 

 upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Has the shape of C. inci- 

 piens mi\ o( C. inceptus. Body tawny, head a little broader than 

 the fore-chest ; disk black ; a black mark on each side beneath ; face 

 convex, adorned in front with black bands which are blended to- 

 gether in the middle : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the 

 middle-hips : a. black spot above near the base : feelers black, tawny 

 towards the tips : eyes prominent: fore-chest not narrower in front; 

 sutures of the scutcheon black; hind-scutcheon narrow above, 

 slightly widened and rounded on each side : disk of the scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest black, adorned with four tawny stripes which 

 communicate with the hind border; the latter is slightly excavated: 

 abdomen much longer than the chest, black above at the base 

 whence a row of black spots proceeds nearly to the tip : drums pale 

 tawny : legs pale brown, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; hips and 

 knees yellow ; a yellow ring near the base of each shank ; feet black 

 towards the tips ; claws tawny with black tips ; thighs adorned with 

 yellow and pitchy stripes ; fore-thighs armed with three rather long 

 black teeth : wings colourless, tinged with brown along the veins 

 near the tip of the fore border, tawny at the base and along the fore 

 border ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base ; flaps partly clouded with 

 brown. Length of the body !> lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 

 a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



