206 BRITISH CICADiE. 



Limitation in the lower animals is complete, and they 

 have no consciousness of the fact." Our thirst for 

 more light virtually expresses the belief "that we 

 could understand, if some higher intelligence would 

 explain it to us." Will the Great Artificer bring his 

 own chief work to intellectual confusion ? 



EEEATA AND COREIGENDA. 



Vol. I. 



Page Ivi, for '^Lipori" read ^^Lepori." 

 Page Ivii, ,, '■^Lipari'^ ,, "Lepori." 



Vol. II. 



Page 51 et seq. The genus Deltocephalus should have been numbered 

 XXXVII., and the numbering of subsequent genera should be in sequence. 

 There are forty-eight genera, and not forty-nine, as would appear from 

 the last {Zygina) bemg numbered XLIX. 



Description of Plates. 

 LXIL, LXIII., LXIV., for ^^ Dicranura^' vead '' Dicraneura," 



