"Discordant heard alone, aids the full concert."
Amongst the planters and English settlers of the West Indies they are however called the razor-grinders, their noise being by these persons likened to that made in grinding knives and razors. Kalm evidently alludes to these insects in his Tour of North America, where he says in some places they make so much noise, that unless two persons meeting together can speak louder than the insect can chirp, they cannot hear each other.
CICADA STRIDULA.
Plate [XXXVII]. fig. 2.
Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Homoptera. Family: Cicadidæ.
Genus. Cicada, Linn.
Cicada Stridula. Villosa prasineo-fusca, nigro-maculata, abdomine nigro; elytris griseis, maculis ovatis ante marginem posticum 7, hyalinis; alis luteis versus apicem nigris, omnibus margine latiori hyalino. (Expans. Alar. fere 3 unc.)
Syn. Cicada stridula, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 706. 12. Stoll. Cicada, fig. 15. Germ. in Thons. Arch. II. 2. 12. 19. Silb. Rev. Ent. II. 76. 54.
Cicada capensis, Linn. Syst. N. 1. 2. 706. 13.
Cicada Catenata, Drury, App. vol. 2.