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one on each side of it slightly divergent posteriorly, equidistant from the 

 middle line and the side margin. IScutellmn, posteriorly, with a dusky 

 spot. Elytra ashy-grey, farinose, the nerves interruptedly brown or fuscous, 

 the streaks more continuous and darker outwardly than inwardly, being 

 very short next the inner margin, disc almost, and the anterior margin 

 wholly and broadly, clear. Prosternwm, at the outer side, with two confluent 

 black spots. Legs pale oclireous : above, thighs, 1st and 2nd pairs with two 

 black spots near the apex, smaller and fainter on the 2nd pair ; tihicB with a 

 black dotted line on the inner side, and distant, spinose hairs on the outer mar- 

 gin ; 3rd pair, thighs with a black line on anterior edge, and a large black spot 

 on the inner edge at the apex (or sometimes two, the upper one less distinct), 

 the apex itself having a strong projecting spine ; tibia, inner margin with a 

 strong black line, and thickly set with short, fine, spinose, ochreous hairs ; 

 outer margin with more distant, somewhat curved, ochreous spines, each arising 

 from a black dot ; tarsi all ochreous, 3rd pair fuscous beneath ; claius all black. 

 Under-side : 1st ^^air, fulcra, a large black spot near the base ; thighs, a longitu- 

 dinal fuscous line near the anterior margin ; 2nd pair, thighs with a transverse, 

 geminate spot beyond the middle, and a round one near the apex, black ; 3rd 

 pair, as on the upper- side. 



Abdomen beneath clear pale ochreous, the lower edge of each segment, next the 



clear connexivum, with a large, triangular black spot. 



Length, 2— 2i lines, ^ ? . 



Note. — The dark markings on tte upper surface are frequently in 

 part or wholly wanting, and the fariuosity extends on to the 

 pronotum as well as the elytra. 

 Apparently related to Cicada argentata, Fab., E. S. iv, 38, 47. 

 A few examples taken, in July, among short grass on the Downs, 

 Ventnor, Isle of Wight ; also in August, at Birch Wood, and Seven- 

 oaks, Kent. 



Species 2. — cognatfs, B. and S. 

 Yellowish, or with a faint brownish tinge, slightly shining. Elytra 

 pitchy -brown, with pale nerves. 



Sead : above, a little before the anterior margin a bow-shaped, brown streak, and 

 behind it, in a line with the anterior margin of the eyes (which it does not 

 reach) , a broadish, transverse brown streak ; near the basal angles a more or 

 less distinct brown spot, enclosed by a curved line, exteriorly ; beneath, face 

 black ; anterior margin, a central Une, the apex and about seven fine transverse 

 undulatory lines on each side, yellow. AntenncB black, or pitchy-black ; Ist 

 joint, base, and apex, pale. Rostrum brownish-yellow ; apex black. 



Thorax : pronotum very finely wrinkled transversely ; anterior margin in the middle 

 with a small, somewhat lunate, brown patch ; from beyond the middle, and 

 extending to the posterior margin, four brown streaks, the two exterior ones 

 slightly diverging and terminating at the basal angles of the scutellum, the two 

 interior are placed on either side of the centre, and are 1 T-shaped. Scutellum 

 slightly depressed in the centre, in which is a hrown Jleur-de-lis shaped character. 



