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Show APPENDIX C.- INSKCTS. 369 HEMIPTERA. CICADA REf, Hald. PL. IX. Pio. 17. Yellow, varied with black, sericeous beneath. Head yellow, pypostoma brown; the medial line yellow, and unimpressed, and the transverse ridges undulate; eyes connected by a broad transverse band. Pronotum yellow, with a narrow Y- shaped line divided to the base, a narrow transverse lateral spot on each side posteriorly, and another anteriorly, immediately behind the lateral stemmata. Mesonotum black, with a large lateral elongated yellow spot, and a pair of similarly coloured medial spots in the shape of the Hebrew letter reeh inverted, and the points converging anteriorly upon the medial line; tergum dark brown. Wings with the nervures yellow to beyond the middle, when they become dark brown or blackish. The usual W- shaped mark is present; beneath and feet yellow; metasternal spines rather large; spines of the feet and apex of the tibial tinged with brown. Length of the body fourteen, to the end of the upper wings twenty- two lines; width of the prothorax seven lines. A large and handsome species, from the Great Salt Lake Valley. CICADA STRIATIPES, Hald. PL. IX. Fio. 16. Above black, varied with a little yellow; beneath yellow, more or less primrose, particularly beneath. Head black, with a small yellow spot above the antennae; hypostoma prominent, with the medial line yellow, and strongly impressed. Pronotum black, margined with yellow posteriorly, primose, and indistinctly lateral. Mesonotum black, with four small yellow spots, two connected with the scutel, and two central, one on each side of the medial line; lateral margins and scutel yellow, two raised yellow lines extending laterally from the latter. • Tergum black, with the apex and margins of the segments yellow. Elytra and wings with the nervures yellowish- white; those of the exterior cells blackish; the basal portion, which is doubled beneath in repose, is orange. That of the posterior alulet extending half its length and ending in a narrow fuscous band; base of the superior wings with a black 24 |
