22 BBITISH CICADA. 



Abdomen black. Point of the pygofer projecting, and 

 coarsely ciliated. 



Female. Coloured much like the male, but the 

 neuration of the elytra is less distinctly marked out 

 by the fuscous borderings. The last ventral segment 

 but little longer than the penultimate. The lateral 

 valves setose. 



Often abundant in the salt marshes near Eomney, 

 and in other places. Hunstanton, Norfolk. 



Size, 0'23 inch, or 6*5 millimetres. 



Paramesus phragmitis, Boh. Plate XLIV., figs. 3 



to 3 c. 



Thamnotettik^jhragmitis, Boh. ; Kirschb. 



Jassus phragmitis, Thoms. 



Deltocephalus phragmitis, Fieb., Syn. Ent. Delto. fig. 2. 



Paramesus phragmitis, Sahib. ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 30. 



Form somewhat linear. Vertex somewhat more 

 acute than in the last species. General colour ashy- 

 ochreous. Vertex grey on the apex, and stained with 

 ferruginous-red on the base. A fine line runs down the 

 middle, and two brown dots mark the vertex at the 

 base. Pronotum ashy-grey. Scutellum stained with 

 red and rust-coloured spots. Elytra distinctly longer 

 than the abdomen ; with nervures broad, and yellow to 

 the naked eye, — an appearance caused by fuscous- 

 brown markings and edgiogs to the elytral cellules. 

 This marking gives the insect a kind of brocaded 

 ornamentation. Abdomen black, with pale edges, 

 and striped with black on the under- side. 



A single specimen was captured by me in late sum- 

 mer on some rushy ground atWeycombe. ^This speci- 

 men was identified by Mr. Edwards, who subsequently 

 presented me with another example ; taken I believe by 

 him on rushes at Eomney, in Kent. These are the 

 first recorded appearances of the insect in Britain. 



