CICADA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Rostrum, or snout, bent inwards under the breast. 
Antennae setaceous. 
Wings four, membranaceous, declining along the sides of 
the body. 
Feet in most species formed for leaping. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cicada sfumaria. C. fusca, elytris maculis binis albis late- 
ralibus: fascia duplici interrap ta albida. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 2102. 
Of a brown colour, with two lateral white 
spots, or rather two irregular whitish 
bands on the upper wings. 
Cicada fascia duplici albida interrupta trans- 
versa. Geoff. Ins. 1 . p.415. no. 2. 
Cicada spumaria graminis. Degeer Ins. 3. 
p. 103. no. 1. pi. 11. f. 1. 21. 
Cuckoo Spit. . . Merian Ins. 77 * pf 51. Schaff. Elem. 
pi. 42. Shaw Gen. Zool. 6. p. 153. 
The little patches of foam which we so often ob- 
serve upon rose-trees and on blades of grass, &c. are 
the production of this insect in the larva state. 
This froth, which has obtained the name of cuckoo 
spit, contains the little green cicada ; and it is said 
