84 BRITISH CICADA. 



Common throughout the summer. Taken on Wor- 

 cester Beacon, Eomney Marsh, Haslemere, &c. 

 Common also throughout Scandinavia and Finland. 





Inch. 



Millimetres. 



Expanse 



0-38 



9-64 



Length with wings 



0-19 



5-00 



LiMOTETTix SEXNOTATA, Fall. Plate LVIII., 

 fig. 2. 



Cicada sexnotata, Fall. 



Cicadula sexnotata, Zett. ; Scott; Ferrari; Fieb. 



,, frontalis, Scott. 

 Tettigonia sexnotata, Germ. 

 Eupteryx sexnotata, Curt. 

 Jassus sexnotatits, H.-Scha£f. ; Flor ; Marsh. ; Kirschb.; 



Thoms. 

 Limotettix sexnotata, Sahib. ; Edw. pt ii. p. 76. 



Exceedingly variable as to its markings. Sahlberg, 

 indeed, notices sixteen different varieties, chiefly con- 

 nected with the variegation of the head and pronotum. 

 On account of the occasional suppression of these 

 spots on the vertex, it is very difficult to decide 

 whether examples belong to this or the following 

 species. Some examples, also, are nearly hyaline and 

 transparent as to their elytra, whilst others are nearly 

 opaque from the suffusion of colour on the mem- 

 branes. 



Small. General colour yellow or yellow-grey. Vertex 

 with two roundish black spots at the base, followed by 

 two longer spots in advance. Eyes reddish brown. 

 Two other spots occur just above the frons, which are 

 partially seen from the dorsal view of the insect, com- 

 pleting the number six. Frons greenish yellow, with 

 faint brown transverse bars ; the sutures at the genae 

 black. Pronotum almost spotless. Abdomen dark 



