LIST 01- HOMOI'TEItOIS INSECTS. 



157. Cicada annulivena, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus stibundalvs, obliijuus, anf/ulum vahU ob- 

 tusuvi fingens^io plus tripl/> ejus tonyitudine divistis ; 2us 

 siibrectus, vaUU ohliqmts angiUum perobtusum fingens, lo 

 paiillb brevior ; 3us subcurvus, obliguus, unguium aculum 

 Jingens ; Aus fere rectus, angulum acutum fingens, \o paull/) 

 brevior el ohliquior. 



Second marginal areolet longer than the fii-st : first cross-vein 

 very slightly waved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by much more than thrice its length ; second nearly 

 straight, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, a little 

 shorter than the first ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming 

 an acute angle ; fourth neatly straight, forming an acute angle, a 

 little shorter and more slanting than the third ; fifth very slightly 

 curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black : 

 head rather small, narrower than the fore-cliest, adorned with a 

 pale yellow spot on each side of the face, and with two other yellow 

 spots nearer the eyelets ; face slightly convex, not at all prominent : 

 mouth black, tawny towards the base: eyes prominent: feelers 

 black, stout: fore-cliest narrower in front than behind, adorned with 

 five tawny stripes ; the middle one linear, the inniJr pair nearly 

 straiglil, the outer pair very oblique; hind-scutcheon narrow in the 

 middle, widened on each side, rounded near the base of each fore- 

 wing: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned on the disk with the 

 indication of a tawny, double V-shaped mark, and on each side with 

 an oblique tawny stripe; cross-ridge tawny; excavation on the 

 hind border very slight: abdomen slightly obconieal, very much 

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

 tawny: opercula none ; tymbals white ; drums small, pale tawny, 

 parted by a narrow interval : legs black : thiglis and shanks adorned 

 with tawny stripes ; fore-thighs armed with two stout teeth : wings 

 colourless ; veins tawny, marked with black at tlie base, darker at 

 the tips ; veins and fore border of the fore-wings adorned with nu- 

 merous brown bands, indications of which may be observed on the 

 veius of the hind-wings ; cross-veins of the fore-wings clouded with 

 brown ; a row of brown dots at the tips of the longitudinal veins of 

 the marginal areolets; flaps of the hind-wings tinged with pale 

 brown at the base. Length of the body 7i lines ; of the wings 18 

 lines. 



«. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



