56 [March, 



$ . ITpperside sordid yfillowish-prey, tlie crown, pronotum, and scutelliim 

 speckled AviUi biown, veins of the elytra whitish. Length 3*5-4'5 max. 



Ewhurst, Surrey; Pett, Pevensey, Sussex (E. A. Bidler). 



The male is at first sight very like that of A. aJhifrons, from which 

 it is readily distinguished by the dark markings on the crown, the white 

 liinder half of the pronotum, and the armature of the aedeagus ; in all 

 of which points it resembles A. flavosfrigatus and A. histrionicus. 



Athysamis russeohis Fall. 



Having at length seen, amongst some Cicadina taken near Cam- 

 bridge many years ago by the Rev. L. Jenyns and now in the Cambridge 

 University Museum of Zoology, two females of an Athysonus agreeing 

 with A. ritsseolus Fall, as sent to me by Dr. John Sahlberg, I think it 

 well to offer the following particulars : — 



A short stout species, the upper side brownish-yellow inclining to rust- 

 red, especially on the tore-parts. Crown a little longer tlian the pronotum, 

 about one-lialf longer than half its basal width, the free sides almost straight ; 

 basal markings horseshoe-shaped, the inner half obsolescent and only indicated 

 by a feeble line. Inter-ocular line represented by two black oblique triangular 

 spots on the disc having their apices directed to a point on the free edge of the 

 crown a little behind the ocellus. Inter-ocellar line black, interrupted in 

 the middle, eacli element gradually widening from the ocellus and produced 

 in front at the point of interruption. lufra-ocellar line and the one next below 

 it rust-brown, followed by six somewhat irregular blackish side-lines which 

 gradually diminish in length. Pronotum witii two or three blackish spots 

 behind each eye. Elytra as long as the abdomen with faint fuscous speckling 

 next the jiale vt'ins, dorsum Straight. Wings reaching the base of the genital 

 segment. Female genital valve one-half longer than the preceding segnmnt, 

 its distal t dge nearly straight. Length 3'8 mm. 



This s];eeies is difficult to obtain and appears to be very little 

 known. 1 am now satisfied that Douglas's Addington Hill specimen, 

 which formed the basis of my previous description (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1S8S, p. ;3G), was a pale female example of striaf/ih/s Fall. 

 Norman's Perthshire example, on which the species was introduced to 

 our fatma, I have not seen ; but as it was determined, like Douglas's 

 specimen, by M. Lethierry, it is probable that it was also striatulus. 

 Tliis opinion receives some confirmation from the fact that M. Lethierry 

 returned to me specimens of siriatulelhis, mihi, which closely resembles 

 striatulus except in size, vmder the name russeolus Fall. 



Athysanus distinguenclus Kbm.. 



This species, of which I have only seen the female, is easily distinguished 

 from our members of that section of the genus which have the cross-vein basal 



