A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



801 



tibiae ; length, 9 mm . October, L. Mowbray. Identified by Mr. O. 

 Heidemann. 



Leaf hopper. (Cicadula, sp., t. O. Heidemann.) 



Head, body, and legs light green, darker on abdomen, which is 

 crossed by narrow, pale yellowish green sutural bands ; wings whit- 

 ish, faintly tinged with yellow or pale lilac ; eyes blackish. Length, 

 2.4 mm ; to tips of folded wings, 3.6 mm . Several sent by L. Mowbray 

 in October. 



Fulgorids. — The Lantern-fly family is represented by a small 

 species: Paiclloptera, or Ormenis, pruinosa Say, the "frosted hop- 

 per," recorded by Jones, 1876. 



The larva is white or pale green, with dark feet. It is more or 

 less covered with a white thread-like secretion, forming a tuft at the 



Figure 174. — Tarnished Leaf-bug, x3|; after Saunders. Figure 175. — Black 

 Ground-bug (Pangceus bilineatus) ; x4! 8 . Figure 176. — Ocean-bug (Halo- 

 bates, sp.), nat. size ; from Webster's International Dictionary. 



end of the body and easily detached. They feed in colonies on the 

 under side of leaves and twigs of various plants. The adults vary 

 in color, some being whitish, others bluish gray. 



The general color of recent specimens is purplish brown, with more 

 or less numerous grayish white, minute scales on the back and ante- 

 rior part of fore wings ; prothorax black ; eyes edged with orange ; 

 front margin of fore wings orange-brown; length, 7""". Common in 

 August, Miss V. Hayward, who forwarded specimens for the figures. 

 Plate xcix ; figure l"l,a,b,c. See Howard, Ins. Book, pi. xwii. 

 fig. 28. 



Ocean bugs. {Halobates, fig. 176.) One species (II. Wulterstorffi 

 Frauenf.) of this remarkable family has been taken at sea, off 



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Dec, 1902. 



