188 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Habitat: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, 

 Massachusetts, New York. 



Specimens of C. saint cyri Prov., that I have from Quebec, 

 Canada, belong to sub. sp. I. flava. 



C. XANTHOCEPHALA GERM. 



Germar's original description (Germ. Zeit. fur die Ento., 1- 

 189) is as follows: 



Nigra, capite flavescente, frontis, fascia nigra, elytris maculis mai^gin- 

 atibus hyalinis, puncta colloso ante apicum nigro, pedibus pallido-fuscaque 

 annulatis. 



Habitat in Pennsylvania, Carolina, Zimmermann. One and one-half lin 

 lang. Kopf gelb, um der scheitel dunkel, eine queerbindeauf der unter- 

 seite schwarz. Deckschilde schwarz, ein Fleck am vorderrande vor der 

 Spitze, ein anderer, der den ganzen Hinterrand einnimmt, glashell, latz- 

 terer mit einem schwarzen schwieligen Punkte vor der Vorderecke. Beine 

 gelblich, braun geringelt. 



This species is the most constant in size and coloration of any 

 in the genus. Prom a study of over one hundred specimens 

 representing every locality mentioned below, I have prepared 

 the following description : 



Small, brown or black without markings of any kind above; face with 

 brown bands above, dark below with a distinct light band crossing the cen- 

 ter; hemelytra very sparsely pubescent. 



Front moderately inflated, light above with about nine transverse inter- 

 rupted brown bands, band below these, and clypeus black, lorae, included 

 portions of front, and margin of anterior coxal fosste yellow. Vertex 

 not strongly depressed; suture between vertex and front distinct. Pro- 

 notum with about nineteen fine Indistinct wrinkles. Hemelytra strongly 

 impunctured, very sparsely pubescent; second apical cell broad, irregularly 

 wedge-shaped. Under side black; legs brown, spurs and spines tipped 

 with black. Length, three and one-half mm., width of pronotum, one and 

 four-tenths mm. 



Var. a. Black above; a small white spot on center of costa. 

 /). Glaucus above. 



Habitat: Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisana, Mary- 

 land, District of Coluaibia, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Carolina (Walker) and New Jersey (Smith). 



C. OBTUSA, SAY. 



Cercopis ohtusa Say. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Pliila., IV, 339. (1825.) 

 Clastoptera achatina Germ. Zeit fur die Ent., i, 189. (1839.) 

 C. testae ea Fitch. Fourth An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. (1851.) 

 C. pini Fitcli. Fourth An. Rep. N. Y. State INIus. (1851.) 

 C. lineatocoUis Stal. Eng. Rosa Omk. jord., IV, 286. 

 C. oshin-ni 0\Uette. Hemip. Col., 71. (1895.) 

 C.stolidaVh]. 1 

 C. UHdulata Uhl. ? 



