LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



178. Cicada ghacilis, Fem. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, stibobliquus, unguium rectum 

 fingens, 2o quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2vs rectus, 

 subobli(/uus, angulum oblusum fingens, \o multf) brevinr ; 3us 

 subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum rectum jinyens ; 4u.s sub- 

 curvus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum fingens, 3o mulld 

 longior. 

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

 very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a right angle, parted 

 from the second by four times its length ; second straight, slightly 

 slanting, forming an obtuse angle, much shorter than the first ; third 

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

 slightly carved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, 

 much longer than the third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, forming 

 an almost right angle. Body black, slender, tawny beneath : head 

 much narrower than the fore-chest, clothed with short yellow hairs, 

 adorned with a tawny spot on each side in front by the base of the 

 feelers ; face prominent, very convex, clothed with pale hairs, 

 adorned with a tawny stripe in the middle and with a tawny band 

 on each side : mouth tawny with a black lip : eyes rather large and 

 prominent: feelers black, stout, tawny towards the tips : fore-chest 

 narrower before than behind, adorned with four tawny spots, two on 

 the fore border and two on the hind border, the latter arc more re- 

 mote from each other than the former pair; hind-scutcheon tawny, 

 rather narrow in the middle, widened, extending beyond the scut- 

 cheon and adorned with a short black stripe by the base of each fore- 

 wing, nearly straight on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 tawny on each side, its disk adorned with two tawny streaks which 

 are much widened towards the hind bonier, the latter is hardly ex- 

 cavated: abdomen ohconical, longer and a little narrower than the 

 chest, clothed with whitish hairs, ferruginous on each side ; under 

 side adorned with a row of ferruginous spots: oviduct ferruginous: 

 legs tawny, adorned with pitchy stripes ; feet pitchy ; claws ferrugi- 

 nous with pitchy tips ; fore-thighs armed with three stout ferruginous 

 teeth ; spines on the hind-shanks ferruginous, very King : wings 

 colourless ; fore border yellow ; veins tawny ; a broad oblique stripe 

 proceeds from the fore border and clouds the cross-veins from the 

 first to the fourth, and the intermediate parts of the longitudinal 

 veins, and is hroadest beneath the fore border ; fore-flaps pale huff ; 

 veins of the hind-wings pale tawny ; flaps pale buff at the base and 

 along part of the hina border. Length of the body 7J lines ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



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



