66 Mr. James Edwards’ Synopsis of 
hinder two-thirds. Scutellum greyish yellow, with a triangle on 
each side of the base, a pair of points on the disc, a linear stripe 
on the basal half, and a pair of wide stripes on the apical half, 
black. Elytra greyish yellow, more or less closely speckled with 
black, the transverse nerve, the apices of the anal and axillary 
nerves, and the ramifications of the others, white. Abdomen 
above black, sides and apex yellow. Legs greyish yellow, banded, 
striped, and spotted with black. Length, 4 mm. 
Widely distributed but not common, and probably 
overlooked. Exceptionally dark examples do not exhibit 
the white portions of the nerves so distinctly as speci- 
mens of average coloration. A dark male from Deal 
has the black stripe on the inner side of the hind tibie 
thickened above and below, so as to give that part some- 
what the appearance one finds in Pediopsis tibialis, Scott. 
5. Thamnotettia plebeja, Fall. 
Cicada plebeja, Fall., Hem. Suec., ii., 36, 19. 
Thamnotettiz plebeja, Zett., Ins. Lap., 295, 12; J. 
Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 211, 3. 
Jassus plebejus, H.-Seff., Deuts. Ins., 180, 7; Thoms., 
Opusc. Ent., i., 47, 4. 
Athysanus plebejyus, Flor, Rhyn. Jhiv., u., 291, 10; 
Kirschb., Athys. Art., 8,6; Cicad., 11, 54; Scott, 
Ent. Mo. Mag., xii., 98,8; Ferrari, Cicad. agri 
Ligust., 57, 24 and 59, 182 (?). 
A. Schenkii. Kirschb., Cicad., 111, 56; Reut., Medd. 
Faun. Flor. Fenn., v. (1880), 211, 213 and 218, 18. 
Very nearly resembles the preceding in colour and markings, 
but is larger and wider, with the white portions of the nerves more 
decidedly milk-white, and the two uppermost of the black trans- 
verse side-lines on the frons, although stronger than the rest, 
never coalesce with the infraocellar line to form a pair of black 
patches, as in the last species. Crown in the male a little longer 
than half its basal width, about one-fourth longer in the middle 
than at the sides, in the female one-third longer than half its basal 
width, one-third longer in the middle than at the sides, free sides 
distinctly arcuate, angle blunt. Length, 5 mm. 
This species occurred in profusion amongst long grass 
in a badly-kept garden at Norwich in July and August, 
but I have seen no other examples. 
