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The south of Europe produces a small species of the same genus. 

 It is the 



^ <^ F. europcp, L.; Panz., Faun. Insect, Germ., XX, 16. Green, 

 with a conical front, and transparent elytra and wings *. 



Other Cicadarife with a projecting front, but destitute of simple 

 eyes, and furnished with two little appendages under each antennae 

 representing those organs or palpi, form the genus 



^ , "^ Otiocerus, Kirh., 



Or the "^Cohax of Gcrmar, which hitherto seems to he peculiar to 

 the western continent f. 



Those, in Avhich the head presents no remarkable projection, com-^ 

 pose various genera of Fabric! us, to which must be added some others' 

 established since the time of that naturalist. 



Sometimes the antennae are shorter than the head, and inserted out 

 of the eyes, a character which is also common to the two preceding 

 genera. 



Here Ave distinguish two very apparent ocelli. 



' Lystra, Fab. 

 These Insects at the first glance resemble little Cicadae, properly 

 so called. The body and elytra are elongated. _ The second joint of 

 the antennae is almost globular and granose, as in the Fulgorae J, 



Cixius, Lat. 

 The Cyxii resemble the Lystras, but the second joint of the an- 

 tennae is cylindrical «,nd smooth §. 

 Under the generic aj^pellation of 



Tettigometra, Lat., 

 I "have separated certain Insects analogous to the preceding spe- 

 cies, but in which the antennae are lodged between the posterior and 

 lateral angles of the head, and tliose of the anterior extremity of the 

 thorax. The eyes are not prominent ||, 



There, we observe no ocilli. 



Those species that have large elytra, and in which the prothorax i« 

 sensibly shorter in its middle than the mesothorax, compose the sub- 

 genus ^ 



PcECiLOPTERA, Lat. Germ. — Flata, Fab. %. 

 Those, in which it is at least as long as the mesothorax, and where 



* For the other si)eci£s, see Fab., lb., and Oliv., Encyc. M^hod., &vt\c\& FuJgore. 



t Lin. Trans., 'KuYo. Coquebertii, I, 14 and I, 8 ;— genus ToAaa?, Germ., Magas. 

 der Entom., IV, p. 1, et seq. /^ 



X Fab., Syst. Rvneot., p. 56 ; — Lat., Gener. (>tist. et Ins^t., Ill, p. 166. 



§ Lat., lb. Fabricius places them among h\fFMa. TKe AcMH of M. Kirby— 

 Lin. Trans., XII, xxii, 1.3— differ but little from the Cixii. 



II Lat., Gen. Crust, et Insect, III, p. 1 C3 ;— Germ., Magas. der Entom., IV, 7. 

 The>/Caelidiie of this author— lb., p. 75— seem to approach thej,/Tettigometrfe. 

 They have the same port, and, according to him, their antenna are inserted under 

 the eyes. 



H Lat., lb., p. ]65 ;— Germ., Magas. der Entom., III. p. 219 ; IV, p. 103, 104. 



