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interrupted in the middle; infraocellar line feeble, biarcuate. 
Frons black, a linear middle stripe dilated at the clypeus and the 
side-lines yellow. Pronotum about one-third longer than crown, 
with four or six black points in front, and some feeble traces of 
three or five whitish stripes on the hinder two-thirds. Scutellum 
_ generally with a dark triangle on each side of the base, and a pair 
of black points on the disc. Elytra in the male with the suture 
narrowly and the part adjoining the angular nerves blackish, apical 
areas fuscous; nerves, especially those near the suture, whitish; 
in the female uniform yellow-brown, with the nerves but little 
paler than the ground oolour. Abdomen black; hind margin of 
the last dorsal segment reddish yellow-brown in the female; 
genital valve in the male triangular. Legs greyish yellow, striped, 
spotted, and banded with black. Length, 5—6 mm. 
Common throughout the summer on various trees and 
bushes. I have taken males amongst low herbage in a 
bog in April in company with Athysanus grisescens, Lett. 
Specimens of the male occur in which the elytra, 
especially on each side of the nerves, are thickly 
speckled with fuscous, and the latter appear more 
decidedly pale in consequence. 
4. Thamnotettic variegata, Kbm. 
Athysanus variegatus, Kirschb., Athys. Art., 9, 8. 
Thamnotettix variegata, Kirschb., Cicad., 112, 57; 
J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xi., 211, 4. 
Athysanus irroratus, Scott, Ent. Mo. Mag., xii., 96, 5. 
A. variegatus, Reut., Medd. Faun. Flor. Fenn., v. 
(1880), 211, 212 and 218, 19; Ferrari, Cicad. 
agri Ligust., 57, 23 and 59, 183 (forte). 
Crown (in the female) about one-fourth longer than half its basal 
width, one-third longer in the middle than at the sides, free sides 
very feebly arcuate, angle blunt; interocular line much dilated 
and interrupted in the middle, its hind margin angularly indented 
near each eye; interocellar line represented by four black points, 
of which the middle pair are occasionally wanting; infraocellar 
line biarcuate, abbreviated at each end, and interrupted in the 
middle, each half forming the upper margin of one of the two 
black patches on the frons. Frons yellow with black markings, 
which are reduced or obsolete between the antenne and the apex. 
Pronotum greyish yellow, with a few black points in front, and 
four longitudinal series of short transverse fuscous lines on the 
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