We may call him toad-hopper or spittle-bug, or as Fabre says, "Contentons-nous de Cicadelle, qui respecte le tympan."
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
I came upon a little town, That slumbered in the harvest moon, And passed a-tiptoe up and down, Murmuring, to a fitful tune, How I have followed, night and day, A tramping of tremendous feet, And saw where this old tympan lay, Deserted on a doorway seat, And bore it to the woods with me; Of some unhuman misery Our married voiced wildly trolled.
"Poems"
W. B. Yeats
Nothing remained now but to adjust the guides which would hold the cards on the tympan.
"The Adventures of Bobby Orde"
Stewart Edward White