30 Mr. James Edwards’ Synopsis of 
1. Paramesus nervosus, Fall. 
Cicada nervosa, Fall., Hem. Suec., ii., 39, 28. 
Athysanus obtusifrons, Stal, Ofv., 174, 4. 
Paramesus obtusifrons, Fieb., Neue Gatt. und Art. 
Hom., 10, 19, pl. vii., fig. 20. 
Jassus nervosus, Thoms., Opuse. Ent., i., 65, 48. 
Paramesus nervosus, J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 286, 1. 
Athysanus Verralli, Scott, Ent. Mo. Mag., xi., 268. 
A. nervosus, Scott, J. c., xil., 168, 15. 
3. Oblong, brownish yellow; forehead with a pale yellow 
transverse line, bounded above and below by an arcuate black one; 
frons black or brown, with a few pale curved transverse lines and 
some indication of a pale middle stripe below; outline of the lore 
and clypeus and a line down the middle of the latter black; front 
margin of pronotum narrowly black. Scutellum sometimes with 
a dark triangle in each basal angle. Nerves of the elytra pale, the 
areas of the corium evenly margined with black, the apical areas 
dark fuscous. Crown a little longer in the middle than at the 
sides, and about equal in length to one-half of its basal width. 
Pronotum about two and a half times as wide as long, one-third 
longer than the crown, and subequal in length to the scutellum. 
Abdomen black. Legs pale, striped, spotted, and banded with 
black. 
@. Similar in coloration tothe male, but larger and much paler; 
the dark margins to the areas fuscous or entirely wanting. Abdo- 
men pale, striped with fuscous. Length, 6—6} mm. 
On rushes in muddy salt-marshes ; local, but abundant 
where it occurs. 
2. Paramesus phragmitis, Boh. 
Thamnotettix phragmitis, Boh., Sv. Ak. Handl., 1847, 
34, 7; Kirschb., Cicad., 100, 35. 
Jassus phragmitis, Thoms., Opuse. Ent., 1., 65, 50. 
Deltocephalus phragmitis, Fieb., Syn. Eur. Delto., 3, 2, 
fig. 2. 
Paramesus phragmitis, J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii,, 
287, 2. 
Elongate. Crown slightly roundly produced, somewhat shorter 
than the pronotum, whitish, with two rust-yellow patches on the 
disc; forehead with a whitish band, bounded above and below by 
a black line. Frons narrow with nearly straight sides, pale brown, 
sometimes with a few pale curved lines on each side. Pronotum 
