122 BRITISH CICADA. 



This species was first taken in Britain by Mr. J. W. 

 Douglas, who, in the August of 1874, found it feeding 

 on Artemisia ahrotanum. Several of these plants were 

 growiog in a cottager's garden on the moors near 

 West Kilbride, in Ayrshire, Scotland. They were 

 then plentiful, as many as twenty individuals being 

 secured by sweeping with the uet. 



Subsequently Mr. Douglas took a single example of 

 the same insect in his garden at Lewisham ; from w4iich 

 we may infer that the food-plant and other examples 

 of the insect were not far distant. 



It occurs in Fieber's Catalogue of Typhlocybini, and 

 seems to affect different kinds of wormwood, like 

 Artemisia maritima and A. ahrotaimm. 





Inch. 



Millimetres, 



Expanse 



0-22 



6-82 



Body only 



0-15 



3-81 



EuPTERYX URTic.E, Fah. Plate LXVII., fig. 3, 

 and LXVIIL, figs. 4 to 4a. 



Cicada urticce, Fab. : 



Cicadula urticce, Zett. 



Typhlocyha wrf/ccCjH.-Schaff. ; Flor; Kirschb.; Letli. ; 



>ieb., 

 Eupteryx tarsalis, Curt. 



,, urticce, Mamsh. ; Sahib. ;, Ferrari ; Edw.pt. 

 ii. p. 88. 



Small. General colour pale yellowdsh, variegated with 

 black. Head round. Eyes brow-n. Tw^o large black 

 spots on the occiput. Frons yellow, wdth the sides 

 black. Pronotum yellow or pale, with a large black 

 spot on the fore margin continued down the sides, and 

 three darker spots on the disc, which are often con- 

 fluent. Scutellum with two basal marks, and with a 



