218 LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



tyml)als gray; drums pale tawny, rather small, wide apart: legs 

 black ; hips and ihiglis adorned with lawny stripes ; knees and hind- 

 shanks tawny ; shanks red at the base ; fore-lhighs armed with 

 two stout teelh ; hind-l'cet tawny with black tips: fore-wings dark 

 reddish tawny from the base to the cross-veins, nearly colourless 

 Irom thence to the tips ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of 

 brown spots along the lips of the longitudinal veins of Ihe marginal 

 areolets; veins black, adorned as far as the cross-veins with nume- 

 rous little lawny bands ; hind-wings bright red as far as the cross- 

 veins which are clouded with black, colourless from thence to the 

 borders wliieh arc adorned with opaline lustre ; veins black, adorned 

 here and there with tawny bands ; flaps bright red. 



Pern. — Abdomen more obconical and a little shorter than thiit 

 of the male ; bands tawny, less interrupted : legs tawny ; hips and 

 thighs slightly striped willi black ; fore-shanks and middle-shanks 

 very slightly striped with black ; feet black : fore-wings colourless, 

 brownish-tawny towards the base ; cross-veins clouded with pale 

 brown ; a row of pale brown spots at the tips of the longitudinal 

 veins of the marginal areolets ; hind-wings red nearly as far as the 

 cross-veins which are clouded with brown, colourless thence to the 

 tips ; flaps bright red. 



Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 27 lines. 

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



171. Cicada primitiva, Mas. 



Nervus transversus \us snbcm-vus, perobliquus, anyulum perobhi- 

 sum fingem, 2o tripld ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us subcur- 

 vm,perobliqui(s, angulum nonfingens,\o paullb brcvior ; Sits 

 subundalus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; 4us valdi 

 curvus, ferd ereclus, angulum rectum fingem. So paullb bre- 

 vier. 

 Second marginal areolet a Utile longer than the first : first cross- 

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

 tuse angle, parted from the second by full thrice its length ; second 

 very slightly curved, so extremely slanting that it does not form the 

 usual angle, a little shorter than the first; third slightly waved, slant- 

 ing, forming an acute angle ; fourth much curved, nearly upright, 

 forming a right angle, a little shorter than the third; fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black, pale 

 red beneath : head red, narrower than the fore-chest ; a broad black 

 band across the crown ; three red spots along the hind border ; face 

 very slightly convex : mouth red with a black tip reaching the mid- 



