LIST OF UOMOl'TEUOUS INSF.CTS. 



167. Cicada obuqua, Mas. 



Nervm transversus \us fer^ rectus, perobliquus, angulitm non fin- 

 gens, '2o plus duplt) ejus lonijiludine divisus ; 2usferi rectus, 

 perbnblii/uus, anguium mm fimjem, \o paulll) longior ; 3ua 

 sithmdalm, subabliquus, angulum subacutum fingens ; 4us 

 subcurvus,obliq>ms, angulum acutum fingens, 3o paullb brevinr. 

 Second marginal areolet much longer than the first: first cross- 

 vein nearly straight, extremely slanting, not forming an angle, 

 parted from the second by much more than twice its length ; second 

 nearly straight, extremely slanting, not forming an angle, a little 

 longer than the first ; third slightly waved, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a very slightly acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, 

 forming an acute angle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth slightly 

 curved, upright, forming a nearly right angle. Body black above, ' 

 ferruginous and covered with white powder beneath : head narrower 

 than the fore-chest, adorned with a ferruginous spot in front on each 

 side of the face ; the latter is slightly convex and not at all promi- 

 nent ; its sides and the fore border in front are ferruginous : mouth 

 ferruginous, black at the base and at the lip, reaching the middle- 

 hips : feelers black : eyes not jirominent : fore-chest narrower in 

 front than behind ; scutcheon red along the fore border, adorned 

 with seven red stripes, the middle one slender, the inmost pair 

 curved, the next pair oblique, the outer pair very oblique ; hind- 

 scutchcou red, narrow in the middle, rounded, partly black and 

 much widened above the base of each fore-wing, slightly excavated 

 on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four 

 slender slightly oblique red stripes ; sides, cross-ridge, and hind 

 border mostly red, the latter not excavated: abdomen obconical, 

 longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments, horn and the 

 tip red : drums small, pale red, rather far apart : legs red ; thighs, 

 shanks and fore-hips streaked with black ; claws black, red at the 

 base ; fore-thighs armed with two long black teeth ; fore-feet and 

 middle-feet black, the latter red at the base ; tips of hind-feet pitchy: 

 wings colourless ; fore border tawny as far as the brand, pitchy from 

 thence towards the tip ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; cross- 

 veins from the first to the fourth and the adjoining parts of the lon- 

 gitudinal veins between the second cross-vein and the fore border 

 clouded with dark brown ; a brown spot on the lip of the lower vein 

 of the sixth marginal areolet. Length of the body 9 lines; of the 

 wings 22 lines. 

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



