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HEMIPTERA. 



and the front, jind almost as near each other as the eyes, while 

 the fore wings are without closed cells in the disk. The spe- 

 cies most injm'ious to the grape-vine is the Erythroneura vitis 

 Harris (Fig. 535). It is pale yellow, with two red lines on 

 the head, while the hinder edge of the thorax, including the 

 scutellum, the base of the fore wings, with a broad band across 

 their middle, are scarlet, and the wings are tipped with black. 

 In Jassus the species are larger than the foregoing, with 

 stouter bodies. The head is very broad and short, concave at 

 base, and the ocelli are placed between the ej-es on the front, 

 which is broader than long, and the ovipositor is recurved. 

 Jassus irroratus Say is not uncommonly seen on herbage. 



The common Helochara communis Fitch, a grass green sj^e- 

 cies, is found in great abundance in damp, grassy places, in 

 company with the yellow-legged, closely allied, Diedrocephala 

 .Hollipes and Dledrocephala quadrivittata Say, which has the 

 vertex flattened and four scarlet stripes on the wings. In Tet- 

 tigonia the antennae are half as long as the body. T. bifida 



Say is common in 

 grass. In Cercopis the 

 prothorax is large and 

 hexagonal. 



The Clastoptera pro- 

 teus of Fitch is a 

 common insect in blue- 

 berry fields and cran- 

 berry pastures. It is 

 short and thick, with a bright yellow head, with a black band 

 on the fi-ont margin of the vertex, and a broader one on the 

 front, and a black dot near the apex of the el^'tra, w hile the 

 legs are yellowish white, and the tarsi are black. It varies 

 greatly in its colors. In jiphropliora the head is of moderate 

 size, with two ocelli approximate on the crown of the head ; 

 the prothorax is trapezoidal and the posterior tibiae have two 

 teeth. A. qimdrinotata Say is found on grape-vines. 



FuLGORiD^ Leach. This famil}' , as stated by Westwood, is 

 at once known by having only three distinct joints in the an- 

 tennae, and the two ocelli are placed beneath the eyes. The 



