118 BRITISH CICADiE. 



apex fuscous. Two rather large black spots occur; 

 one a little below the costa and half-way from the 

 apex, the other on the suture of the clavus. "Wings 

 delicate, hyaline, iridescent, and slightly fumose at the 

 tips. Veining almost obsolete, or else very difficult to 

 see. Elytra are sometimes seen, but not often, entirely 

 without spots. 



Local. Apparently it feeds on the meadow-sweet 

 {Spircea ulmaria). 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Expanse 0-25 6-50 



Size with wings 0*14 3-50 



Several examples in Mr. Douglas's cabinet are more 

 fuscous than that of the example I figure. 



EuPTERYx TENELLus, Fall. Plate LXVI., figs. 

 4 to 4 a. 



Cicada tenella, Fall. 



Typhlcoijba tenella, H.-Schaff. ; Flor ; Kirschb. ; 



Fieb., 

 Eupteryx tenellus, Sahib. ; Doug. ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 92. 



Small. Head pale ochreous-yellow, with two large 

 roimd black spots on the vertex. A semilunar spot at 

 the base. Frons pale, with two smoky and converging 

 stains. Pronotum fuscous, with a broad transverse 

 smoky mark, and a broad black line below. Abdomen 

 black. Margins of the segments yellow, and similarly 

 so coloured underneath. Legs yellow, with fuscous 

 tarsi. Elytron greenish yellow, with one or more 

 broad longitudinal pale stripes. Wings iridescent. 



Length with wings, 0'12 inch, or 3-00 millimetres. 



Marked "scarce" by Edwards. Taken on the com- 

 mon yarrow {Achillea milkfolii) at Eartham, near 

 Norwich ; also at Birdbrook, Essex. Said also to 

 feed on the common nettle {Urtica clioica). August. 



