. The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. Tab. 11. Fig. 22»Ranata cornuta. Petiy. Gozoph. Tab. 47. Fig. 2. Inf. Tab. 10. Fig. Icon. Tab. 96. Fig. Cam. cornuta. Tab. Stec. Inf. 2. 2,^]. (^, F % Th§ 28 PLATE LXXXIII. The Cicada Cornuta is a native of Germany and othe
. The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. Tab. 11. Fig. 22»Ranata cornuta. Petiy. Gozoph. Tab. 47. Fig. 2. Inf. Tab. 10. Fig. Icon. Tab. 96. Fig. Cam. cornuta. Tab. Stec. Inf. 2. 2,^]. (^, F % Th§ 28 PLATE LXXXIII. The Cicada Cornuta is a native of Germany and other parts of Eu-rope, as well as of England; with us it is by no means common. It ismet with in the month of May, or June; Berkenhout fays it isfound on trees, ferns, &c. I have taken two fpecimens this feafon, oneat Coombe-wood, Surrey, the other at Dartford; they were both con-cealed on the under fides of fome dock leaves. At Fig. I. the creature is reprefented of the natural fize, with thewings expanded; at Fig. II. one is given in a ftanding pofition jand at Fig. III. the front of the head and fingularly conftru6led tho-rax is fhewn as they appear before the fpeculum of an opaque mi-crofcope. Fabricius has placed this Infeft in a divifion of the feventh Clafs ofhis Genera Infedorum, Ryngota Membracis. PLATE HP:
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