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out tlie temperate regions, among tliem a i)articular species 

 known as the sharpshooter, Oncometopia undata, which 

 discharges droplets of hquid, so that when the insects are 

 abundant, the tree in which they occur may shed consider- 



FiG. 65.- — Drceculacephala mollipes: a, adult from above; b, face, much 

 enlarged; c, vertex and pronotum ,^; d, female genitalia; e, male geni- 

 talia; /, wing; g, h, nymphs. All enlarged. (After Osborn, Bur. Ent., 

 Bull. 108.) 



able liquid, and this leads to the name "weeping tree." 

 The glassy-winged sharpshooter, figured here, has a similar 

 habit. 



Tenderfoot Leafhopper. — A species which is very abundant 

 in grass lands is the tenderfoot leafhopper, Drcectdacephala 



