British Hoinoptera-CicadiiM. l'^7 



2. AfiaUia vcnosa, Fall. 



Cicada venosa, Fall,, Hem. Siiec, ii., 38, 21. 



Bythoscojjus venosns, Panz., Faim. Germ., 143, 5. 



Agallia venosa, Flor, Ehyn. Liv., ii., 551, 1 ; Marsh., 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., iii., 150, 1 ; Kirscbb., Cicad., 

 150, 4 ; J. SaiiL, Not. Femi., xii., 153, 2 ; Scott, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., x., 237, 2. 



<? . Dirty greyish white. Crown with a round spot on each 

 side, a fine central hne, which is continued over the forehead as far 

 as the ocelli where it suddenly divides and proceeds in an arcuate 

 form to the base of each antenna, a point at each ocellus, a sub- 

 triangular spot, of which one point reaches the ocellus, on each 

 temple, and the lower half of the face almost entirely, black. 

 Pronotum with a curved line from each front angle to the front 

 margin behind the spot on the crown, a linear central stripe, and a 

 large roundish spot on each side at the base, black. Scutellum as 

 in pimcticejJS. Nerves of the membrane and corium dark brown, 

 brachial nerve as far as the transverse nerve and a small piece at 

 the base of the upper cubital nerve pale ; claval suture and inner 

 margin narrowly, a stripe just above the anal nerve and extending 

 for half its length, a piece of the anal nerve just before its apex, a 

 stripe just above the axillary nerve and extending for two-thirds of 

 its length, dark brown or black ; a linear marking following the 

 course of the anal nerve for about half its length, and then passing 

 to the suture in the form of a blotch, the apex of the anal nerve, 

 and the entire axillary nerve, white. Abdomen black. Legs 

 variously striped and banded with black. 



$ . Similar to the male, but larger and with most of the black 

 markings replaced by rust-red. The central line on the crown 

 divides almost inunediately on leaving the base. Lower half of 

 the face pale, with sundry dark markings ; frons with a rust-red 

 linear central stripe on its lower half, and a row of small black 

 spots down each side. Abdomen above black, narrowly pale at the 

 sides, beneath pale. Legs variously striped and banded with rust- 

 red. Length, 2^ — 3 mm. 



Very common at the roots of grass, &c. 



