Abstract: A light diffusing lens and a method of making such a lens for use in traffic lights etc. and of the known type in which a nearly parallel light beam in projected on a lens adapted to scatter the light within certain predetermined limits, and in which the lens comprises a large number of cavities arranged on the inner surface of the lens, which cavities act as elementary lenses (2) arranged in parallel rows (3) extending in the horizontal direction, and in which each elementary lens (2) comprises at least two integral concave lens parts, namely a lower lens part (5) having the shape of a part of a half-ball, and an upper lens part (6) which is directly integral with said lower lens part (5) and which is stepwise or successively widened to the shape of a bell and which is ended by an upper, straight cross cut lens surface (4).