6 BRITISH CICADA. 



M. Signoret figures the pygofer in profile ; and thus 

 the long processes noted above are folded on each 

 other, and do not appear as m my plate. 



Size of body, 0-21 x 0-09 inch, or from 6*0 to 7-0 

 millimetres. 



Not common, but sometimes locally nmnerous. 

 Marshy ground at Chobham ; Norwich, and elsewhere. 



Strongylocephalus Megerlei, Scott. Plate XL., 

 figs. 3 to 3 b. 



Strojigylocephalus Megerlei, Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. 122, 2 ; 



Signoret, Ess. Jas. pi. ii. fig. 19; Edw. pt. ii. 



p. 18. 

 Amhlycephalus irroratus, Curt. ('?). 



Colour yellow, more or less spotted with brown. 

 Under-side black, and spotted with yellow\ Head some- 

 what rounded, with a broad anterior border, on which 

 two black dots (or ocelli) are conspicuous. Pronotum 

 striated, and, taken with the scutellum, longer than in 

 S. agrestis. Elytra also rather more pronounced in the 

 bands and spots, and a little broader. Frons yellow, 

 with yellow-brown streaks. 



From the few specimens that I have examined, I 

 should hesitate to separate Megerlei from agrestis. 

 Probably the differences which are said to exist can be 

 more easily perceived in continental specimens, where 

 the insect seems to be more common. Some stress is 

 laid on the more or less concave hind margin of the 

 ventral plate and the depth of the notch. 



Mr. Edwards says: — "Marshes. Hitherto rare. 

 Northumberland. Surlingham and Booton, Norfolk." 



My drawing is from a capture made at Panworth, 

 Norfolk. 



Size, 0'27 inch, or 7'0 millimetres. 



