THE 



COMMON CICADA. 



Generic Character, 



Beak inflected. 

 Antenna fetaceous. 



Wings four, membranaceous, deflected. 

 Feet (in moft fpecies) formed for leaping. 



Specific Character. 



CICADA with the fcutellum bidentated at the 

 tip, the elytrae marked with four anaftomofes 

 and fix ferruginous lines. 



The Cicada, fo often commemorated by the ancient 

 poets, and fo generally confounded by the major part 

 of tranllators with the grafshopper, is a native of the 

 warmer parts of Europe, and is particularly plentiful 

 in Italy and Greece. The moft common fpecies, or 

 cicada plebeia, here reprefented, appears in the hotter 

 months of fummer, and continues its fhrill chirping 

 during the greater! part of the day ; fitting among ft 

 the leaves of trees. In Italy there is another fpecies, 

 (the cicada orni, Lin:) which bears a very great gene- 

 ral refemblance to the former but is confiderably lefs : 

 indeed amongft the larger cicada there are feveral forts, 



which, 



