48 Mr. James Edwards' Synopsis of 



ii. Gargara, Am. et Serv. (PL I., fig. 12). 

 Am. et Serv., Hem., 537, 430 (1843). 



Sides of pronotum angulated, biit without a distinct born ; hind 

 process straight, conceahng the scutellum. 



1. Gargara genist(e, Fsib. 

 Centrotus genistcs, Fab., Sys. Ehyn., 21, 26 ; Panz., 



F. G., 50, 20; Curt., Brit. Ent., p. and pi. 313. 

 Oxyrrhachis genisUe, Burm., Handb., ii., 133, 2 ; Flor, 

 Ehyn. Liv., ii., 106, 1 ; Marsh., Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 ii., 34, 1. 

 Gargara genista, Kirschb., Cicad., 68 ; Fieb., Cicad. 



d'Eur., pt. ii., 13, 1. 

 Head and thorax deep black, shiny, very closely and coarsely 

 punctured. Elytra yellow-brown, nerves darker. Thighs and 

 basal half of tibiae black, apical half of the latter and the tarsi 

 piceous. Head, thorax, and nerves of elytra with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. Length, 3 mm. 



Eare. On Genista tinctoria, Purfleet, Essex, August ; 

 on Genista anglica, Chobham, Kent. 



III. TETTIGOMETEID^. 

 Characters those of the single genus. 



Tettigometra, Latr. (PI. I., fig. 13). 



Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., iii., 163, 394 (1807). 



Easily recognised by its Ptyeloid facies, horny elytra 

 with conspicuous tegulae, the want of facial keels, and 

 by the antennal seta situate on the hinder side of the 

 2nd joint before the apex. 



1. Tettigometra i'mpyessoptinctata, Sign. 



Tettigometra impressopunctata, Sign., Ann. Soc. Fr., 

 4me ser. vi., 150, 13; Marsh,, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 iii., 149 ; Fieb., Cicad. d'Eur., pt. ii., 130, 15. 

 T. frontalis and fasciata, Fieb., Eur. Tettig., 567, 14, 



and 571, 22. 

 T. nitidnla, Kirschb., Cicad., 59, 6. 



Brown or greenish brown, closely and deeply punctured, abdo- 

 men black. Crown obsoletely tricarinate, side keels parallel. 



