278 SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT. 



This beautiful Cicada (which Mr. Westwood, to 

 whom we have heen indebted for a drawing, con- 

 siders as forming a distinct subgenus, in consequence 

 of the numerous veins with which the anterior wings 



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are furnished) formed part of the late General Hard- 

 wicke's collection made in Nepaul, and presented to 

 the Linnean Society of London. It does not seem 

 to exist in any other collection, either in this country 

 or on the Continent. It is allied to C. faseiata, Fabr. 

 C. speciosa, Illiger, &c., but differs considerably from 

 these and every other described species. 



CICADA PLEBEIA. 

 PLATE XXI. Fig. 1. 



Roesel's Ins. PI. 25, 26 StoWs Cig. PI. 24. fig. 131. PL 25. 



fig. 139. 



THIS is the largest of the European Cicadas, being 

 frequently found to measure two inches in length, and 

 4 1 inches between the tips of the wings. The general 

 colour is black, with a yellow line on each side of 

 the thorax, and various smaller stripes of the same 

 colour on different parts of the surface. Underside 

 testaceous-yellow; tegmina and wings transparent. 

 The sound it produces is very loud and shrill. It is 

 first met with on going southwards, in the centra) 

 provinces of France, and is not unfrequent in many 

 of the southern parts of Europe. 



CICADA SEPTENDECIM. 



PLATE XXI. Fig. 2. FEM. 

 Cicad. Manif. Septendecim, Linn StoWs Cicad. PL 3. fig. 14 



Kalm Reize door Noord-Amerika. 

 HEAD black ; eyes yellow ; thorax and upper parts 





