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A. Front, as seen from side, almost straight — concluded. 



CC. Size larger, vertex of female distinctly shorter than 

 broad. Lines on vertex usually distinct and broad. 

 Last ventral segment of male long, cylindrical. 



angulifera. 



BB. Vertex shorter, roundingly acute, margins as seen from above 

 slightly rounding, spots on apex distinct. Profile of front 

 slightly rounding. noveboracensis 



AA. Front, as seen from side distinctly rounding. Sides of front mottled 



with brown or unm.arked. reticulata. 



Drseculace/phala mollipes (Say). 



(PL 9, figs. 6-7.) 



Telligonia mollipes Say, ,J1. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, p. 312, 1831; Compl. Writ., ii. 

 p. 383. 



TeHigonia mollipes Harr., in Hitchcock Geol. Mass., edn. 2, p. 580, 1835. 



Aulacizes mollipes Fh., Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 56, 1851. 



Tettigonia innotata Walk., List Homop., iii, p. 770, 1851. 



Tetligonia antica Walk., List. Homop., iii, p. 771, 1851. 



Diedrocephala mollipes Sign., Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr., ser. 3, ii, p. 726, pi. 21, figs. 12, 13, 

 1854. 



Acopsis viridis Prov., Nat. Can., iv, p. 352, 1872. 



Diedrocephala mcUipes Osb., Kept. la. St. Agr. Soc, for 1892, p. 687. 



Telligonia mollipes Fowl., Biol. Centr. Am., Homop., ii, p. 273, pi. 18, fig. 15, 1900. 



Drwculacephala mollipes Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 67, pi. 7, fig. 1, 1901. 



Drcpculacephala mollipes Osb., 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 511, 1905. 



DrcBCulacephala mollipes Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 108, p. 56, 1912. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 103, 1915. 



DrtccuUicepliala mollipes Gibs., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 254, 1915. 



Drceetdacephala mollipes Van D., Ent. News, .\,\vi, p. 178, 1915. 



DrcBCulacephala mollipes DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 27, 1916. 



Dra-culacephala mollipes Gibs., Can. Ent., .xlviii, p. 177, 1916. 



Drcccidacephala mollipes Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 603, 1917. 



Drceculacephala mollipes 01s., Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxviii, p. 6, 1918. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Latlir., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 37, 1919. 



Form: Rather long and slender. Length, 6 to 9.5 mm. Vertex very 

 long, acutely angled, sides straight, disc flat, longer in female than in 

 male. Face straight in profile. Pronotum with lateral margins parallel, 

 anterior margin rounding, posterior margin emarginate. Elytra long, 

 nervures distinctly raised, apical portion reticulate. 



Color: Vertex, anterior part of pronotum and scutellum yellow, latter 

 two sometimes greenish. Vertex with two small apical spots, lines on 

 reflexed portion of front, a median and a pair of lateral lines, brown. 

 Face yellow to fuscous with nine pairs of brown arcs laterally. Disc of 

 pronotum and elytra bright green, nervures light, costal and apical mar- 

 gins light. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment about two-thirds as 

 long as broad, posterior margin sinuate on either side of obtusely rounded 

 median lobe; pygofers long and narrow, equalling or exceeding ovipositor 

 and bearing a few stout, coarse hairs along sutural margin. Male, valve 

 short, angularly produced; plates large, as long as pygofers, and with 

 short, stout hairs on margin. 



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