LIST OF nOMOPlEllOUS INSECTS. 



156. Cicada cinota, Mas. 



Nerms transvenm }us subfurvus, ereclus, angulum subobtmum 

 fingens ; 2o plus quadruplb ejus longitudine divism ; 2im sub- 

 curvus, fere erectus, angulum obhman fingens, \o longior ; 

 3jm subcnrvus, obiiqwis, angulum aculum fingens ; 4us fere 

 rectus, angulum acutum fingens, Sopaullb longior et obliquior. 

 Second marginal aveolet a Utile shorter than the first : first crnss- 

 vein very sliphtly curved, upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle, 

 parted from the second by more than four times its length ; second 

 veiy slightly curved, nearly upright, forming an obtuse angle, longer 

 than the first; third slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute an- 

 gle ; fourth almost straight, forming an acute angle, a little longer 

 and more slanting than the third ; fifth very slightly curved, almost 

 upright, forming a right angle. Body tawny : head a little nar- 

 rower than the lore-chest ; crown black with the exception of a tawny 

 stripe extending from the eyelets to the hind border ; face very con- 

 vex, rather prominent, black above with a tawny stripe in the middle : 

 mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the middle-hips : eyes pro- 

 minent; feelers black, stout; fore-chest somewhat narrower in front 

 than behind, rounded at the base of each fore-wing, neariy linear 

 from thence to the fore border ; scutcheon adorned with a yellow, 

 middle stripe and with two black stripes on each side ; hind-scut- 

 cheon narrow in the middle, widened on each side : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest adorned with four obconical black stripes; the 

 middle pair about half the length of the outer pair, succeeded by 

 two black dots ; a slight oblique lawny stripe on each side ; excava- 

 tion of the hind border extremely slight ; abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer and iniich narrower than the chesi, black for one-third of the 

 length from the base ; short black bands on the fore borders of some 

 of the f(dlowing segments; under side black at the base; disks of 

 some of the segments pitchy : operculanone; tymbals white ; drums 

 pale tawny, small, parted by some space ; legs tawny ; thighs striped 

 with darker colour ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with 

 three tawny teeth : wings colouriess ; veins tawny, black at the tips 

 and along "the hind borders of the fore-wings ; hind-wings and flaps 

 red at the base. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines, 

 rt. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



