LIST OF HOMOPTEROtrS INSECTS. 



(Ue-liips : eyes prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest 

 not narrower before than behind, adorned with a red border and 

 with five red stiipes on the disk, the middle one diamond-shaped, 

 the inner pair interrupted, not so oblique as tlie outer pair which 

 occupy the furrows ; hind-scutcheon red, narrow above, wider and 

 extending much beyond the scutcheon at ihebase of each fore-winff, 

 abruptly narrower on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with four red oblique stripes, of these the outer ])air are 

 much shorter than the inner pair which are nearer the fore border ; 

 sides, cross-ridge and hind border red ; excavation of the hind border 

 almost obsolete : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest ; sutures 

 of the segments and tip red : opercula none ; tymbals whitish with 

 red borders; drums small, pale red, wide apart; legs red; thighs 

 very slightly striped with black ; claws black, red at the base ; fore- 

 hips striped with black ; fore-thighs armed with two stout teeth whose 

 tips are black ; fore-feet pitchy : wings colourless, pale red at the 

 base ; primitive areolet adorned with a pale tawny tinge, its sides 

 clouded with brown ; cross-veins, the space between the second and 

 the fore border, and the longitudinal vein between the fourth and 

 the hind border clouded with brown ; a brown spot on the tips of the 

 longitudinal veins of the fourth and lifth marginal areolcts ; veins 

 pale tawny, darker towards the lips, red at the base ; fore-flaps bright 

 red ; hinJ-flaps pale red at the base, pale brown along the fore 

 border. Ijcngth of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 25 lines, 

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



172. Cicada monilifeka, Mas. 



Ncrvus transverstts 1?« stibcurviis, jierobliguus, unguium perobtu- 

 sum fingens, 2o plus duplh ejus tonr/itudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurpus, valde obiiqutts, unguium perobtttsuin Jingcns, 1 i 

 longitudine ; 3us subcurmis, obliqiius, angulutn reclumfingms ; 

 4«s subcurvus, obliquus, unguium acutumfingens, ."^o mtiltii 

 longior. 



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

 vein very slightly curved, extremely slanting, forming an extremely 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by very much more than twice 

 its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, as long as the first; third slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming a right angle; fourth very slightly curved, slant- 

 ing, forming an acute angle, much longer than the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, very slightly slanting, forming a nearly right angle. 

 Body black, ratlier narrow, tawny beneath ; head a little narrower 



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