British Homoptera-Cicadina. 103 



yellowish white ; a broad stripe on the crown near each eye, the 

 front and hind margins of pronotum, and three stripes on each 

 elytron, dark brown or black. Female entirely yellowish white. 

 Length, 2^ — 3| mm. 



Macropteroiis form undescribed. Scarce. Lulworth ; 

 Eiddlesdown ; Shiere, near Guildford ; by sweeping, and 

 at the roots of low plants. 



X. PAROPIID^. 

 Eepresented in Britain by the single genus. 



Megophthalmus, Curt. (PI. II., fig. 3). 

 Curt., Ent. Mag., i., 174 (1832). 



Each end of the keel dividing the crown from the face split into 

 a fork, in the angle of which is placed the ocellus. Legs sub- 

 similar. Front tibias triangular-prismatic, the hind pair quad- 

 rangular-prismatic. 



1. Megophthalmus scanicus, Fall. 



Cicada scanica, Fall., Act. Holm., 113 (1806). 



Ulopa scanica, Fall., Hem. Suec, ii., 65, 1. 



Ccelidia scutata, Germ., Mag. d'Ent., iv., 79, 5(3'). 



Megophthalmus Upunctatus, Curt., Ent. Mag., i., 194. 



Paropia scutata, Burm., Gen. Ins., i., pi. 7. 



P. pallidipennis. Hardy, Trans. Tyneside Field Club, 

 i., 430, 1 ( ? ). 



Megophthalmus scanicus. Marsh., Ent. Mo. Mag., ii., 

 83, 1. 



Paropia scanica, Kirschb., Cicad., 70, 1 ; J. Sahl., 

 Not. Fenn., xii., 375, 1. 



Dirty brownish yellow, roughly punctured, nerves of elytra 

 strongly raised. Male, crown with three spots, pronotum with a 

 fine central line and two blotches on each side confluent iu front, 

 and the scutellum entirely, except a short pale liiic at each end of 

 the transverse impression, black; female generally entirely pale, 

 but examples are frequently met with in which the dark markings 

 of the male are|strougly indicated, the elytra have the nerves and 

 two short lines on the suture fuscous or black, and the areas, 

 especially towards the apex, are sparingly speckled with fuscous. 

 Length, 3 — 4 mm. 



Common and generally distributed. 



