30 BRITISH CICADA. 



This somewhat common species is very variable as 

 to colour ; and this character is shown more particu- 

 larly in the males. 



Widely distributed in Britain, and met with from 

 June to September, over all Sweden and Finland. 



Length, from 0-14 to 0-18 inch, or 3-50 to 4*50 

 millimetres. 



Athysanus melanopsis, Hardy. Plate XL VI., figs. 2 



to 2 a. 



Aphrodes melanopsis, Hardy, Trans. Tyneside Field 



Club. 

 Thamnotettix melanopsis, Scott; Edw. pt. ii. p. 41. 

 ,, Scotti, Fieb., Cic. d'Eur. 



Male. Small, robust, fuscous-yellow. Vertex ob- 

 tusely angular, about two-thirds the length of the pro- 

 notum. Two or more fine, angular, or horse-shoe- 

 shaped lines occupy the crown. Eyes brown. Frons 

 black (whence its name). Pronotum large, striated, and 

 gibbous, with two perpendicular broad lines, and one 

 basal transverse line. Scutellum small. Abdomen 

 black, with a pointed apex, coarsely setose. Elytra 

 about equal to the length of the abdomen ; the nervures 

 faintly indicated by brown lines. 



Female more oblong. Coloured much like the male. 

 The hind femora very setose, with two black lines near 

 the knees. 



The small size {viz.^ 0*12 inch or 3'0 millimetres), 

 the form of the frons, and the deltoid form of the head, 

 are distinctive. Not common. 



