20 BRITISH CICADA. 



Head brown, with yellow between the keels. Scii- 

 tellum lozenge-shaped, dark brown or black. Abdomen 

 broad and flat, the second and last rmgs being furnished 

 with flocculent matter. Legs long. Clypeus and 

 keels yellow, but sometimes the upper half is suffused 

 with brown. Kostrum long, reaching just beyond the 

 third coxae. Elytron with a broad brown bar, about 

 one-third distant from the apex ; with a greyish spot 

 exterior to this bar. Membrane slightly fuscous. 

 These markings, however, are not constant in form. 

 Main nervures yellowish, with numerous granules. A 

 reddish variety, with a pale spot before the stigma, 

 constitutes the C. diomjsii of Curtis. 



Widely distributed. Perth, Newcastle- on -Tyne, 

 Wootton, Surrey, Sussex, &c. 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Expanse 0-500 12-70 



Body 0-180 4-56 



Cixius BRACHYCRANus, Fieh. Plate V., figs. 7 to 10. 



Cixiiis intermedins, Scott. For male styles see Ent. 



Mo. Mag. vii. 147, fig. g. 

 Cixius hr achy cr anus, Scott, /. c. p. 198. Fieb., pt. ii. 



Cicad. d'Eur. 179, 9 ; Edw. i. 54. 



Crown twice as broad as long. Elytra hyaline ; 

 with the base, the angular nerves, and a straight band 

 somewhat before the middle, fuscous. Granules black, 

 stigma piceous. Face and legs entirely brownish 

 yellow, (Edwards). Scott says smaller than nervosus, 

 to which it is related. The squarish shape of the 

 granules, the colour, and the form of the genitalia are 

 the most conspicuous characters by which this insect 

 may be known. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne, Penzance, Tunbridge Wells, 

 Foxley Wood, Norfolk. August and September. 



Size 7-62 millimetres, or 0*30 inch. 



Although Scott names C. intermedius and C. hraclii- 

 cranus as two separate species, he says that he is 



