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of minute appendages on the first tarsal segment, as sliown 

 in the figure. 



The destructive leafhopper (Afhi/mnus exitiosus), was 

 first noticed as a pest in grain fields in the Southern States, 



Fig. 69. — The destructive leafhopper (Athysanus e.iitiosiis) a, adult 

 female, dorsal view; b, head and pronotum of male; c, face of female, d, 

 female genitalia; e, male genitalia; /, wing; g, eggs disserted from female; 

 /), l, j, three stages of nymphal growth. All enlarged. (After Osborn, 

 Bur. Ent., Bull. 108.) 



but is now knowm to be distributed throughout the larger 

 portion of the United States, which likely is the result of a 

 dispersal from the southern localities with possible intro- 



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