90 BRITISH CICADA. 



Burmeister and Curtis give excellent coloured 

 drawings of this insect, which is by no means common 

 in Britain. I received, however, eight specimens in 

 one summer from Brockenhurst, in Hampshire. 



Size expanded, 1-31 x 1-04 inches, or 32-0 x 26 

 millimetres. 



ULOPIDJE. 

 Genus XVIIL— ULOPA, Fall. 



Legs very short and destitute of spines. All the 

 tibiae prismatic. Elytra with nervures strongly raised. 

 Head tumid. 



Ulopa reticulata, Fdh. Plate XXVI., figs. 2 to 2^. 



Cercopis reticulata, Fab. 



,, ericce, Germ. 

 Ulopa ohtecta, Fah. ; Germ. ; Burm. ; Flor; Marsh. ; 



Kirschb. ; Scott. 

 Ulopa cricetonim, St. Farg. et Serv. 



,, macroptcra, Kirschb. 



,, reticulata, Sahl. ; Edw. pt. i. p. 102. 



Head broader than the pronotum. Vertex swollen, 

 with a depression on each side of the medial line. 

 Eyes large and reddish. Antennae rising from deep 

 fossae close to the frons. Pronotum with " a horse-shoe 

 shaped depression on each side" (Edwards). Scutel- 

 lum triangular, with two brown marks on the upper 

 border and another below, traversed by a streak giving 

 to this part of the thorax somewhat the appearance of 

 a mask. Elytra short, oval, and pointed at their 

 apices. Neuration very coarse, and much raised or 

 embossed above the membrane, which last is thickly 

 punctured with round dots. The suture to the clavus 

 is imperceptible. 



