British Homoptera-Cicadina. 17 
i. AterRA, Fieb. (Pl. IIL., fig. 16). 
Fieb., Cicad. d’Eur., pt. 1., 125 (1876). 
Body linear. Front and hind margins of the crown parallel, 
feebly curved. Ocelli distinct. Pronotum distinctly wider than 
the head with the eyes. Elytra much longer than the abdomen, 
overlapping at the apex, with a distinct appendage, the three inner 
apical areas oblong, truncate at the base. Submarginal wing- 
nerve running into the first nerve; in the apex of the wing three 
oblong areas. Genital valve wanting in the male. 
1. Alebra albostriella, Fall. 
Cicada albostriella, Fall., Hem. Suec., u., 54, 49. 
C. elegantula, Zett., Faun. Ins. Lap., 586, 35. 
Typhlocyba albostriella, H.-Scft., Deuts. Ins., 164, 11 ; 
Flor, Rhyn. Liv., ii., 8382, 1; Kirschb., Cicad., 
de og og 
T. elegantula, id., l.c., 124, 23. 
T’. discicollis, id., l. c., 124, 8. 
T. fulveola, id., t.c., 165, 16. 
T. Wahlbergi, Boh , Sv. Ak. Handl., 42, 17 (1847). 
T. exumia, Hardy, Trans. Tynes. F. C., 1., 417, 2. 
Cicadula elegantula, Zett., Ins. Lap., 298, 12. 
Lupteryx fasciata, Curt., Brit. Ent., 640, 3. 
E. albostriellus, Marsh , Ent. Mo. Mag., 111., 218, 1. 
Compsus albostriella, J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 156, 1. 
Alebra albostriella, Leth., Cat. Hem. Nord., ed. 11., 64 
and 77; Ferrari, Cicad. agri Ligust., 74 and 75 ; 
Fieb., Cicad. d’Kur. (T'yphlocybint), 1. 
This handsome insect presents the following well- 
marked colour varieties :— 
g. Fore parts and legs yellow or red-yellow; elytra yellow or 
greenish yellow; apices of the areas of the corium and the mem- 
brane fumose. 
@. a. Upper side, face and legs white, the two latter sometimes 
tinged with yellow; two broad stripes on the pronotum, the suture 
of the elytra broadly, a stripe in the brachial area, and a broad 
one along the costa, yellow; apices of the areas of the corium and 
the membrane faintly fumose. The stripes on the pronotum and 
the suture of the elytra are frequently red. 
b. Upper side, face and legs white, the two latter sometimes 
tinged with yellow; hind part of the crown, the pronotum (except 
