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then assumed the mature coloration, although they were much 

 darker than on emergence. The two perfect males were pill- 

 boxed, the female and the crippled male being left behind. 



On my return at 2.45 the female had disappeared, but the 

 crippled male was still in the position in which I had left it, no 

 doubt through being unable to fly. This male was now quite 

 mature, and the two males in the pill boxes assumed the mature 



Photo G. T. Lyle. 

 Stalk of bracken (Pterin aquilina) containing ova of Cicadetta montana. 



colours by 2.20. Several Cicadas were "singing" in the neigh- 

 bouring trees during the whole time I was at the locality. I 

 may mention that the spot where all these Cicadas emerged is 

 within a yard or two of the place where, in 1911, I found so many 

 empty nymph cases. 



On May 26th I again visited the Cicada ground and at 

 11.45 a.m. discovered two females sitting on fronds of bracken; 



