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HEMIPTEEA.

tree when the bark is wounded. Sir G. Staunton says, the Camphor-tree is felled inthose countries for the sole purpose of finding the drug in substance among thesplinters.

CICADA SANGUINEA.

Plate 16. fig. 1.

Ch. Sp. C. nigra, facie, thoracis maculis duabus, abdomineque sanguineis. Exp. alar.

2-| unc.

C. black, with the face, two spots on the thorax, and the abdomen blood-red. Ex-panse of the wings 2| inches.

Syn. Cicada Sanguinea, De Geer Ins. 3. 221. tab. 34 .jig. 17. Donovan, ls< edit.

Tettigonia Sanguinolenta, Gozen Entomol. Beitr. II. p. 150. Fabricius Ent. Syst.

4. p. 25. Germar in Silberm. Rev. Ent.

The specific name sanguinea of De Geer having the priority, is here retained inpreference to that of Fabricius (Ent. Syst.), which is identical with that of anotherspecies of the Linnasan Cicadte, as well as with that which, in his Systema Rhyngo-torum, he has proposed in lieu of C. hsematodes of his earlier works, which is howeverdistinct from the Linntean C. luematodes, and for which it will be necessary to employanother specific name.

CICADA AMBIGUA.

Plate 16. fig. 2.

Ch. Sp. C. olivacea, elytris hyalinis, marginibus anticis testaceis. Expans. alar. 3f unc.

C. olive coloured, with the elytra clear, the anterior margin testaceous. Expanseof the wings 3f inches.

Syn. Cicada ambigua, Donov. lsi edit.

Received by Mr. Drury from China .

LYSTRA LANATA.

Plate 16. fig. 3.

Family. Fulgorihe.

Genus. Lystra, Fabricius.

Ch. Sp. L. elytris apice nigris, punctis cseruleis, fronte lateribusque rubris, ano lanato. Ex-pans. alar. If unc.

L. with the elytra black at the tips, spotted with blue, with the front and sides ofthe head red, abdomen woolly at the extremity. Expanse of the wings If inch.

Syn. Cicada lanata, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 711. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4. 30. Syst. Rhyng.p. 56. Sulzer Ins. t. 2./. 11. Stoll dead. t. 10. f. 49.