Carineta, Amy. y Serv.

Goding, Frederic W., 1925, Synopsis of the Cicadidae of Ecuador, Revista del Colegio National Vicente Rocafuerte 7, pp. 1-34 : 18-20

Genus CARINETA, Amy. y Serv.

Key to Species.

Tegmina and wings distinctly darkly margined,

Dark margin of tegmina and wings broad.

Color black; pronotum with large green spot on each side; abdomen black; pronotum with large green spot on each side; abdomen black; tegmina hyaline green;wings bluish ............ ..................................... (?) formosa, Germ .

Color brown; pronotum with small spot at posterior margin, and two short diverging discal stripes, piceous; abdomen concolorous; tegmina and wings hyaline yellow-bronze.. ............................................. boliviana, Dist.

Dark margin of tegmina and wings a, narrow border, bases of first, second and third apical cells infuscate; tegmina and wings pale bronze hyaline; body very broad at humeral angles, and short, olivaceons; abdomen of female suddenly constricted at middle and attenuated to apex, hind margins of segments darker, genitals sordid green on each side....... ........... .. ecuatoriana, Godg.

Tegmina and wings not darkly margined.

Bases of tegmina and wings broadly and darkly opaque, stigma, apices of interior ulnar cells and of clavus, infuscate........... illustris, Dist.

Bases of tegmina and wings very narrowly opaque.

Tegmina and wings without spots.

Head triangularly produced in front; pronotum light green or ochraceous; abdomen concolorous.

Apex of abdomen furnished with a tuft of hairs.

Tegmina yellow hyaline; anal appendage of males with a long slender bristle on each side; opercula broadly rounded ....... socio, Uhler.

Tegmina clear hyaline; anal appendage without lateral bristles; apices of opercula obtusely pointed ............................ apicalis, Dist.

Apex of abdomen destitute of a tuft of hairs.

Dorsuin of abdomen brown wit-h two broad tawny bands..................... basalis. Walk.

Dorsum of abdomen testaceous, a black streak on each side of apex ......... congrua, Walk.

Head almost truncate in front;pronotumandmesonotum dark green orochraceous, withblack• marks .............................. bilineosa, Walk.

Tegmina or wings, or both, spotted.

Tegmina without spots; wings with fuscous spot at tips of anal cells;

Abdomen above, castaneous with two broad lighter cross bands, below, a broad median longitudinal stripe and apex black; sides of opercula in male black ................................ ventralis, Jac,

Abdomen ochraceous a bove.

Abdomen below, dark castaneous......... tracta, Dist.

Abdomen below, ochraceous; black mark on last ventral segment in male.

Dorsum of abdomen with two brown stripes..... ........................................................ postica Walk.

Dorsum of abdomen without stripes ....................... ................................................. fasciculata, Germ.

Tegmina and wings more or less spotted.

Brown spot on apex of tegmina only ..... argentea, Walk.

Brown spots on tegmina not only on apex.

Wings with a central fuscous spot.

Apex of wings fuscous.

Tegminawithoutfuscousspots atbases of secondand thirdapicalcells............ ........... centralis, Dist.

Tegminawithbasesofsecond and third apical cellsinfuscate.

Body very hairy; dorsum of abdomen destitute of longitudinal stripes... ...................... fimbriata, Dist.

Body not hairy; abdomen with three dorsal longitudinal light bands... ..................... trivittata, Dist.

Apex of wings clear, not infuscate.

Form of body elliptical, with long and numerous hairs........................................ pilifera, Walk.

Form of body cylindrical, pot hairy... rustica, Godg.

Wings without a central fuscous spot; bases of second and third apical cells of tegmina infuscate; opercula in male large, bulbous, reaching middle of ab ­ domen; some hairy.................. crumena, Godg.