THE 
COMMON CICADA. 
Generic Character. 
Beak infledted. 
Antenna fetaceous. 
Wings four, membranaceous, defledted. 
Feel (in mod; 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 molt common fpecies, or 
cicada plebeia, here reprefented, appears in the hotter 
months of fummer, and continues its fhrill chirping 
during the greatefl part of the day; fitting amongft 
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 cicadte there arc feveral forts, 
which. 
