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subeleuto: puncto apicis atro. Habitat in Italia Dr. AUioni. Statura omnino 

 C. prasinai at paullo minor et distincta. Corpus totum viride puncto solo atro in 

 apice capitis postice parum eleuati." 



The following brief description of this species is given by Osborn (Bui. 238, Me. 

 Agric. Exp. Sta., 1915) : "Approaching viridis but smaller and more slender with a 

 conspicuous black spot on the base of the hind tibia. Female, length, 5 mm.; width, 

 1 .25 mm. Male, length, 4.4 mm. ; width, 1 mm. Vertex very short, strongly angled, 

 rounded at extreme tip; pronotum sharply angled in front, sloping to front and sides, 

 concave behind or with hind border subangularly excavated. Color of female light 

 green, elytra becoming transparent toward tip; eyes brown; a black spot at base of 

 tibia; tarsi yellowish-brown; male sUghtly darker than female, the elytra in one speci- 

 men faintly, in the other distinctly smoky; scutellum with a black triangle in lateral 

 angles, eyes and tarsi as in female and the black spot on base of hind tibia distinct." 

 He further states that "this species is apparently identical with the European form 

 and has been recorded for America but once in my report (20th N. Y.). The New 

 York specimens were referred to the variety graminea in which there is a black spot 

 at tip of vertex." 



So far there are only two recorded localities for this species in Amer- 

 ica. Osborn (20th Kept. State Ent. N. Y., 1904, p. 505) states, "two 

 specimens, females collected on willow at Fitch Point, near the Fitch 

 Home, Salem, N. Y., August 14, 1904." In the Maine bulletin he 

 records "three specimens were taken in sweeping on a clump of cornus 

 July 22 near Orono on Dr. Patch's farm. No nymphs were taken and 

 it is unsafe to regard cornus as food plant as there were willows in vicin- 

 ity." 



Our material was found abundantly on Lombardy poplar in a nur- 

 sery at Irvington (near Newark), N. J. Specimens of what was ap- 

 parently this species were also found on elm in a nursery at Rutherford, 

 N. J. There seems Httle doubt that this is as suggested by Osborn, a 

 European species. Its introduction could readily be accounted for by 

 the fact that the insect overwinters in the egg stage in the twigs. 



Van Duzee in his catalogue of Hemiptera gives the following refer- 

 ences : 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 521, 1798 Cicada. 



Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 77, 1803 Cicada. 



Germar, Mag. d. Ent., IV, p. 81, 1821 Jassus. 



Fieber, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ger. Wien., XVIII, p. 459, 1868 Pediopsis. 



0.shanin, Vers. Palae. Hemip., II, p. 73, 1906 Pediopsis. 



Osborn, 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 505, 1905 Pediopsis. 



Horvath, Ann. Mus. Natl. Hung., VI, p. 6, 1908 Pediopsis. 



Osborn, Me. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 238, p. 90, 1915 Pediopsis. 

 Localities, N. Y., Me., Europe. 



