FULGORID/E : LANTERN-FLIES. 



umbrella but the collector must act quickly or they will 

 hop out again. 



A synopsis of the genera, by Coding, is given in Trans- 

 actions of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix. 

 Plate XXIII shows a few of the many species. Ceresa 

 bubalus, the Buffalo Tree-hopper, is often injurious to 

 young orchard trees, especially apple, by reason of the 

 scars made in the bark when the females lay their eggs. 

 If a simple slit were made, it would not be so bad but there 

 are two slits at each place, crossing beneath the bark and 

 so killing the intervening part. Most of the young leavp 

 the trees to feed on nearby weeds. 



FULGORID^: 



The prothorax of the Membracids is over-developed but 

 the Fulgorids have gone to head. Fulgora lanternaria 

 (Plate XXIII), of the American tropics, is an extreme type 

 and one of the insects which -is commonly sent to the 

 Museum as a great rarity. It is shown here partly because 

 it illustrates the truth that weird-looking things are not 

 always rare; and also because it and some of its relatives 

 have given the common name of Lantern-flies to the 

 family. There are circumstantial stories concerning the 

 luminosity of Fulgorid heads and categorical denials of 

 these stories. The Noes probably have it but, at any 

 rate, the name sticks. Plate XXIII shows also Scolops 

 sulcipes, which is fairly common in our region on grass 

 and other plants, especially where the ground is somewhat 

 moist. Other species, such as Acanalonia bivittata (Plate 

 XXIII; pink specimens are not uncommon), have a more 

 normal head and frequently look like small moths. Such 

 species are often covered with an easily rubbed "meal" 

 and, in the tropics, there are species which bear so many 

 and such large filaments of a waxy substance that other 

 insects live in the excretion. The eggs, as far as I know, 

 are laid in plant-tissue but although there are many 

 species even in our region more south of us they have 

 not been well studied. Later authors split the family into 

 a number of separate families or subfamilies. 



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