92 Mr. James Edwards’ Synopsis of 
frequently more or less interrupted on the dise, when the dark 
markings consequently take the form of two irregular curved 
bands, one before and the other behind the middle; this band-like 
atrangement of the markings is best appreciated when the elytra 
are closed. Genital plates black, the outer sides and apices 
broadly yellow. Length, 3} mm. 
Very abundant on various low plants, and especially 
Labiates, in gardens and elsewhere in autumn. 
9. Hupteryx signatipennis, Boh. 
Typhlocyba signatipennis, Boh., Sv. Ak. Handl., 36, 8 
(1849). 
Lupteryx signatipennis, Marsh., Ent. Mo. Mag., i1., 
247,15; J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 196, 7 ; Fieb., 
Cicad. d’ Kur. (T'yphlocybini), 55. 
Face yellow; upper fore parts very pale green, sometimes with 
a pair of black triangles on the base of the scutellum, and more 
rarely a black point on each side of the pronotum with or without 
some indication of a pair of spots onthe crown. Elytra very pale 
green, the brachial area and the apical half of the suprabrachial 
and subcostal areas whitish hyaline, near the costa beyond the 
middle a small black spot and a round black spot on the inner 
margin about the middle, the dise occasionally with some ill- 
defined fuscous stripes; rarely the elytra are without spots. 
Membrane whitish hyaline, more or less suffused with fuscous and 
frequently having an ill-defined blackish spot near the apex of the 
first apical area. Abdomen black; hind margins of the segments 
very narrowly pale. Legs entirely pale yellow. Length, 33 mm. 
On Spirea ulmaria ; local. 
10. Eupteryx tenellus, Fall. 
Cicada tenella, Fall., Act. Holm., 48 (1806); Hem. 
Suec. il., 52, 44. 
T'yphlocyba tenella, H.-Scff., Deuts. Ins., 164, 16; 
Flor, Rhyn. Liv., ii., 421, 27; Kirschb., Cicad., 
191, 82; Fieb., Cicad. d’EKur. (T'yphlocybini), 
49, 17. 
T’. pulchella, H.-Seff., l. c., 124, 6. 
Eupteryx tenella, J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 192, 3; 
Doug., Ent. Mo. Mag., xii., 204. 
Head yellow, sides and apex of the frons frequently black, two 
large round spots on the forehead, and a transversely suboval one 
