1865.] 88 



1. — MieffopJithalmtcs scanicus, Pall. 



Sordidc ochraceus, punctulatus ; fronte vel plus minus nigro-varia, 



vel concolore, carinis semper pallidis. Vertex et pronotum linea longi- 



tudinali communi nigra ; inter hanc et oculos macula utrinque verticis 



nigra. Pronotum disco utrinque nigro lituratum ; liturse postice et 



intus bis triangulariter emarginatae, interdum autem integrse. Scutelluin 



nigrum, apicem versus albo binotatum. Eemora nigro maculata, $ . — 



? major, tota ocbracea, sed iisdem cum ^ siguaturis s?epius colore 



saturatiore indicatis. Long. <J 1 ; ? If lin- 



Cicada scanica, Tall., Handl. 180G, p. 113. TJlopa scanica, 



Fall., Hem. 2, p. 65. M. hipunctatus, Curt., Ent. Mag 1, 



p. 194. Gcelidia scutata, G-erm., Mag., 4, p. 79. Paropia 



scutata, Burm., Gen., 1 & fig. ^ . Paropia pallidi]ye7inis, Curt., 



Hardy, Tyneside Trans. 1, p. 430, ? cf. ; Signoret, Bull. 



Soc. ent. Prance, 1854, p. 55. 



Tlie black markings of the ($ are variable, predominating more or 

 less over the whole surface of the head, pronotum, and scutellum. 

 This insect is sufficiently common throughout the country, but will not 

 be found any where without a somewhat rigorous search, as it conceals 

 itself at the roots of thick tufts of grass, in crevices of the soil, and 

 under stones. It has been noticed in Sweden, Germany, France, 

 England, and Scotland. My specimens are from Leicestershire, where 

 the species abounds. It seems less frequent in the London district, 

 but is to be found at Esher. Mr. Curtis discovered his hipunctatus 

 imder stones in the Isle of Portland ; and the ? , or pallidipennis. 

 Hardy, is from Bermckshire, and also the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 



Gen. TETTiGONiA, Geoffr. 



An extensive exotic genus, of which we have one well-known re- 

 presentative, placed by Curtis in his genus Amhlycephalus, which also 

 includes Euacanfhus, and was constructed without any reference to the 

 foreign forms. In Euacanthus (with which alone in England Tettigonia 

 can be confounded,) the frons is carinated in the middle, and the ocelli 

 are placed nearer to the fore than the hinder margin of the vertex. In 

 Tettigonia the frontal carinse are wanting, and the ocelli are nearer to 

 the hinder margin of the vertex than to the anterior. 



1. — Tettigonia viridis, Lin. 



Caput flavum, fronte transversim brunneo cancellata ; vertex apice 

 fusco, nigro bimaculatus. Pronotum viride, subcseruleum, antice fla- 



