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widening posteriorly, humeral margins short, posterior margin distinctly 

 concave. Elytra very long and narrow. 



Color: Vertex and pronotum yellowish, with two broad reddish longi- 

 tudinal stripes. Scutellum yellowish. Elytra greenish, nervures yel- 

 lowish especially apically where the elytra become hyaline. Face pale. 

 Abdomen black. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment rather short, narrow, 

 posterior margin broadly but slightly convex; pygofers long and narrow, 

 exceeded by ovipositor, somewhat hairy along mesal margins and apically. 

 Male, valve large, broad, lateral margins roundingly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, posterior margin truncate; plates broad, narrowing rather con- 

 cavely to the attenuate and divergent tips which are upturned and exceed 

 the pygofers. 



Distribution: This species seemingly is found only in the 

 eastern portion of the state as shown by the following map : 



Hosts: Occurs on a large number of grasses. 

 Dikraneura fieberi (Loew). 



X(,fu.i fii'hfii Loew in Then, Kat. Ostr. Cicad., p. 39, 1886. 

 NotuK fdrcijxthtu Fii-b., Revuo d'Ent., iii, p. 53, 1884. 

 Dicraneura fieberi Mel., Cicad. Mitt. Eur., p. 325, 1896. 

 Dicruiieura fieberi Gill., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., xx, p. 722, 1898. 

 IHcraneura fieberi Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 151, 1915. 

 Dicraneura fieberi DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 98, 1916. 

 Dikraneura fieberi Van D., Cat. Heniip. N. A., p. 701, 1917. 

 Dikraneura fieberi Kent., Ohio .11. Sci., xviii, p. 186, 1918. 

 Dikraneura fieberi Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 110, 1919. 



Form: Length about 3.5 mm. Vertex not as produced as in abnonnis, 

 more rounded apically, over one-half longer at middle than next the eye, 

 nearly twice as wide as long. Pronotum long, only about one-third wider 

 than long, lateral margins straight, humeral margins short. Elytra long 

 and narrow. 



