88 BRITISH CICADiE. 



Female. General colour ochreous-yellow. Frons 

 elongated and somewhat narrow. Vertex with four 

 small dark points at the apex. Eyes pale brown. 

 Pronotum semilunate and almost spotless. Scutellum 

 with indications of two basal spots, and below these a 

 fine transverse line. Elytron flavo-hyaline, with pale 

 nervures. Abdomen black, with the sides narrowly 

 yellow. Legs yellow. Hind tibia with a brown stripe 

 and ochreous setae. Frons ochreous, with two small 

 points on the temporajust above the antennal insertion; 

 between which points there occurs a brown undulating 

 line. Antennae long. Edges of the clypeus and the 

 genae brown. 



Size with the elytra, 0*19 inch, or 5*00 millimetres. 



Taken in Scotland at Loch Greenin. September. 



LiMOTETTix VARiATA, Fall. Plate LIX., figs. 3 to 3&. 



Cicada variata, Fall. 

 Jassus fumatus, H.-Schaff. 



,, variatus, Marsh. ; Kirschb. ; Thorns. 



,, sexnotatus, var., Flor. 

 Cicadula variata, Scott ; Fieb. 

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



Body somewhat linear; yellow or ochreous-yellow. 

 Vertex rounded or obtusely angular. Eyes partially 

 brown. Two large, somewhat triangular, brown spots 

 at the base, with two small spots at the apex. Scutel- 

 lum semilunar, with an irregular greyish stain on the 

 disc, occasionally seen with small brown punctuations. 

 Scutellum with large basal spots and a fine transverse 

 line. Examples occur in which the scutellum is brown 

 with the exception of two yellowish spots. Elytron 

 either fine yellow or whitish hyaline. Appendix ample 

 and margined with brown. 



The well-marked specimens have a broad dark bar 

 spreading from the costa towards the clavus, and 



