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crimson with a broad black semilunar band near the 

 apex, succeeded by two other transverse bars broadly 

 united at the costal and marginal edges, so as to form 

 an irregular circular red spot. Wings with a dusky 

 membrane and black nervures. Profile of head flat 

 and thin. Frons or mask striated with yellow. Legs 

 black ; hind tibiffi with two strong spines. Tarsi also 

 fringed with spurs. 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Expanse 0-82 21-0 



Length 0-39 lO'O 



Scott remarks on the fact that several genera of 

 Tettigidas, which are numerous in species in other 

 countries, are only represented here by single ones. 

 Thus we have but one representative of CicadctUi, one 

 of Issus, of Tetticjomctra, Delpltax, and of Cercopis. 

 Although T. vidneraUi is common in Lincolnshire, it 

 has not been recognised in Scotland or Ireland. The 

 insect is so conspicuous from its size and colom- that 

 probably it would have been noted if indigenous in 

 these limits. As it does not occm^ in Sahlberg's 

 ' Fauna Fennica,' it probably is unknown in Scandi- 

 navia. The insect, however, is not uncommon in 

 Edlingham Wood, nearDoncaster, and at Huddersfield 

 in Yorkshire, and I have repeatedly taken it in the 

 high woods above Haslemere, near alder bushes. 



The Cercopid^ are early represented in the European 

 strata. Sixteen fossil species have been already noted. 

 One, very closely allied to Triecphora, has been dis- 

 interred from the strata of the Isle of Wight ; and in 

 America Mr. Scudder has found a dozen or more 

 species in the Florissant beds, which formation 

 contains also in abundance Aphides and other Homo- 

 pterous insects. This insect also has been taken 

 plentifully in Syria by the Rev. F. A. Walker. 



The word Triecphora appears to be a barbarous word, 

 and perhaps it was not meant by its coiner to have any 

 special meaning, or was it originally written TricJiu- 

 phora ? 



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