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which farce Pope had a (hare, Colley Cibber died in 
1758, in the 85th year of his age. In perfon he was of 
the middle fize; and, though ltrait, not well-lhaped. 
His fon Theophilus, alfo a comic aCtor after him, was 
born during a great ftorm in 1703; and, after paffing-a 
life of extravagance, diftrefs, and perplexity, perifhed in 
another ftorm in 1758, in the paftage between Dublin and 
England. Theophilus married the filler of Thomas Au- 
gultine Arne, the famous mufical compofer, who became 
a celebrated tragic aCtrefs, and whofe honour was facri- 
ficed to her hufband’s extravagance. 
CFBOL, f. [ciboule,- Fr.j A fnjall fort of onion ufed 
in fallads. This word is common in the Scotch dialeCt, 
but the / is not pronounced.— Ciboules, or fcallions, are 
a kind of degenerate onions. Mortimer. 
CIBO'LA, or Civola, the name of a town in, and 
alfo the ancient name of, New Granada, in Terra Firma, 
South America. The country here, though not moun¬ 
tainous, is very cool; and the Indians are laid to be the 
whiteft, wittieft, moft lincere and orderly of all the aborigi¬ 
nal Americans. When the country was difcovered, they 
had each but one wife, and were excefiively jealous. They 
worfhipped water, and an old woman that was a magician; 
and believed Ihe lay hid under one of their lakes. 
CIBO'RIUM, f. in eccleliaftical writers, the covering 
for the altar. This covering is fupported by four high co¬ 
lumns, and forms a kind of tent for the eucharift, in the 
Romifh churches. Some authors call it turris gejlatoria, 
and others pyxis ; but the pyxis is properly the box in 
which the eucharift is preferved. 
CIBU'LON, a town of Afia, in the country of Thibet: 
eight miles north-eaft of Zuenga. 
CICACO'LE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar to 
which it gives name : 150 miles north-eaft of Rajahmun- 
dry, and 308 ealt of Hydrabad. Lat. 18.16.N. Ion. 84. 8. 
E. Greenwich. 
CICACO'LE, a circar of Hindooftan, on the north-weft: 
coaft of the bay of Bengal: 150 miles in length, and from 
fifteen to thirty in breadth. 
CICA'DA, / in entomology, the Frog-hopper or 
Flea-locust, a genus of inlefts belonging to the order 
of liemiptera. The beak is inflefted; the antennas are 
fetaceous; the four wings are fnembranaceous and de¬ 
flected ; and the feet, in molt of the fpecies, are of the 
jumping kind. The fpecies at prelent known are two 
hundred and thirty-two. The larvas of feveral of this 
genus evacuate great quantities of a frothy matter upon 
the branches and leaves of plants, in the midlt of which 
they conitantly refide, probably for llielter againft the 
fearch of other animals, to which it would become a prey. 
Nature has afforded this kind of defence to inleCts whole 
naked and foft bodies might otherwife very eafily be in¬ 
jured ; perhaps alfo the moilture of this foam may ferve 
to fcreen it from the fultry beams of the fun. On re¬ 
moving the foam, we difcoverthe larva concealed under¬ 
neath ; but it does not long remain uncovered. It foon 
emits frefh foam, that hides it from the eye of obferva- 
tion. It is in the midlt of this foamy fubftance the larva 
goes through its metamorphofis into a chryfalis and per¬ 
fect infeCt. Other larvae, whofe bodies are not fo foft, run 
over plants without any manner of defence, and efcape 
from infeCts that may hurt them, by the nimblenefs of 
their running, but efpecially of their leaping. 
The chrylalids, and all the larvas that produce them, 
differ little from each other, only that the former have 
the rudiments of wings, a kind of knob at the place where 
the wings will afterwards be in the perfeCt infeCt. As to 
other relpeCts, the chryfalids walk, leap, and run over 
plants and trees; as do the larva and the frog-hopper 
which they are to produce. At length they throw off 
their teguments of chry faiids, flip their laft flough, and 
then the infeCt appears in its utrnoft ftate of perfection. 
The male alone is then endowed with the faculty of Ting¬ 
ing, which it exercifes not with its throat, but with an 
organ fituated under the abdomen. Behind the legs of 
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the male nreobferved two valvulae, which raifed up, dif- 
cover feveral cavities, feparated by various membranes. 
The middle contains a fcaly triangle. Two vigorous 
mu Teles give motion to another membrane, which alter¬ 
nately becomes concave and convex. The air, agitated 
by this membrane, is modified within the other cavities ; 
and by the help of this fonorous inftrument, he amoroufly 
folicits his female. By pulling the mufcles of a frog- 
liopper lately dead, it may be made to fing. This infeCt 
begins its fong early in the morning, and continues it 
during the heat of the noontide fun. Its lively and ani¬ 
mated mufic is, to the country people, a prefage of a fine 
fummer, a plentiful harveft, and the fure return of fpring. 
The cicadas have a head alrnoft triangular, an oblong bo¬ 
dy, their wings faftigiated, or in form of a roof, and fix 
legs, with which they walk and leap brifkly. In the fe¬ 
males, at the extremity of the abdomen, are two large 
laminae, between which is inclofed, as in a (heath, a (pine, 
or lamina, fomewhat ferrated, which ferves them for the 
purpofe of depofiting their eggs, and probably to fink 
them into the fubftance of thofe plants which the young 
larvae are deftined to feed upon. 
The frog-hopper, or flea-locuft, is by no means an ele¬ 
gant infeCt; yet we have, in the preceding engraving, 
given feveral delineations of it, by which the Englifh and 
the foreign fpecies may be contrafted ; they are as follow: 
Fig. 19. Cicada maculata; the head is black, the eyes 
brown, and projecting; between them are two fmall yel¬ 
low fpots : the thorax is black, with four orange-coloured 
fpots in a row, and behind them two others: the abdo¬ 
men is black, confuting of feven annuli or rings; the 
anus, in the female, is furnifhed with a feta or bridle, 
through which fhe difeharges her eggs, and introduces 
them into whatever fhe confiders a proper nidus. The 
wings in both fexes are black, reticulated, and fpotted 
with yellow : it is a large fpecies, and inhabits China and 
Syria. 20. Cicada ftridula; the head is blunt, thick, and 
of a yellowifh brown, with a black ftripe down the mid¬ 
dle ; the abdomen is of a dark chocolate-colour; the wings 
are membranaceous, and of a light brown, with dark cho¬ 
colate-coloured bands fpotted with white, and terminated 
all round with a white border: found at the Cape of Good 
Hope. 21. Cicada lanata; the head is of a dull brown, 
with a moveable horn like a briftle, which the infeCt can 
raife at pleafure; the wings are reddifh brown, and tranf- 
parent, at the extremities; but from thence to the abdo¬ 
men they are of a fine mazarine blue, fpotted with white; 
the abdomen, corflet, and thorax, partake of the fame 
blue colour : it is found in North America, and the Weft 
Indies. 22. Cicada cruenta ; the head, the eyes, and tho¬ 
rax, are yellowifh brown ; the abdomen is black, and an- 
nulated ; the fuperior wings are red, tipped with yellow; 
the inferior are dull brown ; all the under-fide of the in¬ 
feCt is afh-colour : it inhabits Jamaica. The four follow¬ 
ing are natives of England: 23. Cicada cornuto, of a 
dark brown colour; on the thorax are two (harp horns, 
terminating in long fpines on the fides: on the middle of 
the thorax rifes a creft, which being elongated into a 
fmuous crooked horn, terminates in a fliarp point: under 
this horn lies the efcutcheon; the fuperior wings are 
dark and veined; the inferior are tranfparent, and much 
lighter: this dwells on the Items and leaves of fern and 
fwallow-wort; leaps nimbly, and is not eafy to catch, 
24. Cicada fpumaria, which is the moll curious fpecies 
found in this country. It is of a brown colour, often 
inclining to green; the head, thorax, and elytra, are 
finely dotted ; on thele laft are feen two white fpots, 
oblong and tranfverfe, arifing from the outer edge of the 
elytra, the one higher, the other lower, but not quite 
reaching to the inner edge, fo that the bands by them 
formed acrofs the elytra, or fuperior wings, are inter¬ 
rupted in the middle: the under parts are of a light 
brown. Before the infeCt has undergone its metamor- 
phofe, the larva from which it is to be produced dwells 
upon plants, but is not perceived, unlei's a perfon knows 
