British Homoptera-Cicadina. 69 
Thamnotettic splendidula, J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xi., 
219, 11; Scott, Ent. Mo. Mag., xii., 23, 6; Fieb., 
Cicad. d’Kur. (Uhamnotettix), 75, 18. 
Crown and forehead yellow, each with two subquadrate black 
spots. Frons yellow with black side-lines. Pronotum greyish 
yellow, with a few black points in front and sometimes four 
abbreviated fuscous stripes on the hinder two-thirds. Scutellum 
yellow, a triangle on each side of the base and a pair of points on 
the disc black. Elytra pale brownish yellow, the first apical area, 
a more or less distinct spot at the base and apex of the third and 
fourth subapical areas, a spot at the apex of the brachial area, and 
the suture narrowly, blackish brown; the transverse nerve, the 
apices of the anal and axillary nerves, and the ramifications of the 
others distinctly whitish. Abdomen above black; hind margin of 
the last dorsal segment in the female yellow. Legs greyish yellow ; 
inner edge of hind tibiez narrowly black. Length, 5 mm. 
Not uncommon on various trees and bushes. Speci- 
mens occasionally occur in which all the areas of the 
elytra are more or less filled up with blackish brown. 
10. Thamnotettix crocea, H.-S. 
Jassus croceus, H.-Seff., Deuts. Ins., 144, 7. 
J. attenuatus, Marsh., Ent. Mo. Mag., ii., 29, 16. 
Deltocephalus oxypterus, Kirschb., Cicad., 180, 91. 
Thamnotettix crocea, Scott, Ent. Mo. Mag., xii., 22, 1; 
Ferrari, Cicad. agri Ligust., 50, 6 and 54, 1238; 
Fieb., Cicad. d’Kur. (Thamnotettix), 72, 11. 
Crown and pronotum rust-yellow, the former with four, the 
latter with five white stripes; interocellar line represented by an 
oblique black line on each side of the apex of the crown. Scutellum 
rust-yellow, with three white stripes. Elytra pale brownish yellow, 
second apical area filled up with dark fuscous, and sometimes the 
third subapical, the subcostal area, and the suture are narrowly 
bordered with fuscous; nerves whitish, that of the suture con- 
spicuously white. Abdomen above black, sides narrowly yellow ; 
genital plates in the male narrowly rounded at the apex; hind 
margin of the last ventral segment in the female nearly straight. 
Legs pale greyish yellow, a point at the apex of the hind thighs 
on the inner side and the inner side of the hind tibie narrowly 
black. Length, 43—5} mm. 
Very common amongst grasses. 
