Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...orange; not blood-red as in cruentifera. Head entirely black; in some of the paratypes the antennae are marked with orange on the basal joint. Pronotum entirely black in the type; in the allotype it is very narrowly edged posteriorly with red. Mesonotum red at the sides, otherwise black including the X. Metanotum edged posteriorly with red. Tergum black with the first six segments edged with red at extreme lower part of the sides only, segments seven to nine edged completely on the posterior margin with red. Beneath the body including the legs hairy; the legs are orange-red striped with black and the abdominal segments more evenly edged posteriorly with orange-red than in cruentifera. Measurements 1n M1ll1meters. Male Type. Female Allotype. Length of body 35 31 Width of head across eyes 9 9 Expanse of fore wings 84 84 Length of valve 8 In addition to the type and allotype I have received sixty-two males and eighty-nine females collected at Jemez Springs, New Mex1co by John Woodgate at 6,4oo ft. to 7,5oo ft. elevation, June 2 to July 2, 1918. They were most common about the middle of June. Mr. Woodgate writes that the "Navajo children tear the legs and wings off of the cicadas and eat them--say they taste like pecan nuts." The species must have been quite plentiful in 1918 in parts of New Mexico, for Mr. Warren Knaus sent me a male and female collected about four miles southeast of Santa Fe, on the old Santa Fe trail on scrub pine and cedar, June 15, at an altitude of about 7, ooo feet. In 1919 Mr. Woodgate collected seventy-eight specimens of this species at Jemez Springs. Mohave Co., Arizona, 1919, 3 males, 4 females. In the United States Natural Museum there is a male magnifiea labeled "Tibicen cruentifera Uhler var....