no 



ORDER HEMIPTERA 



mollipes. This is light grass-green in color, quite slender, 

 has a very sharj^ly pointed head, and is very well protected 

 on the blades of grass both by its color and form. It occurs 

 on a great variety of grass plants and is known all the way 



Fig. 66. — The shovel-nosed leafhopper (Dorycephalus platyrhyrichus: a, 

 female; b, male; c, face; d, female genitalia; c, male genitalia; /, eggs in 

 grass stem; g, eggs; h, egg, more enlarged and showing developing nymph; 

 i, j, k, I, different stages of growth of nymph. .\11 enlarged. (After 

 Osborn and Ball.) 



from Canada to Central America. TJie nymphs have 

 fairly well-marked longitudinal stripes arranged as shown 

 in the figure, but are much less commonly observed than 

 the adults. 



