[49] Ninth Report of the State Entomologist. 389 



" Chestnut Smilia, *aS'. castanece. Fuscous, more or less green when 

 recent; head, anterior edges of thorax and all beneath, bright 

 yellow; elytra hyaline with an apical and large longitudinal 

 basal spot, fuscous. Length, male 0-25, female 0-30. Com- 

 mon on the chestnut. No. 669, male; 670, female. 

 Var. a. Face with scattered fuscous dots. No. 671. 



" Oak. Smilia, *S. querci. Black, with an abbreviated bright yel- 

 low dorsal vitta, which is commonly interrupted near its tip; 

 legs pale yellow. Length, 0-22. On oaks. No. 672, male. 

 Var. a. Dorsal vitta not interrupted. No. 673. 



Striped Smilia, 8. vittata, ( Amyot and Serv.) Hemipt. p 539. Com- 

 mon on the red and black oak. No. 674, female. 



Subsp. *guttata. The oblique stripe replaced by a few 

 greenish spots or dots. No. 675. 



^* Eared Smilia, *S. auriculata. Bright green, when faded mottled 

 with yellow, immaculate; humeral angles somewhat salient, 

 rounded; keel evenly rounded, much elevated, anteriorly 

 advanced and overhanging the head ; elytra scarcely exceed- 

 ing the tip of the thorax. Length, from the front 0-35, from 

 the anterior end of the keel 0.40; height 0-23. On oaks. 

 Rare. No. 676, male. 



2>*CYRT0ISA.[t] 



(Gr. xupro?, curved, hump-backed.) Humeral angles rounded, not 

 salient; dorsum compressed-foliaceous, forming a regularly arched keel 

 highest near its middle, and at most with a slight concavity posteriorly; 

 apical cellule triangular, its end rounded. Differs from Smilia in hav- 

 ing the keel most elevated in its middle instead of anteriorly. 



** Marbled Cyrtosia, C. marmorata, (Say.) Jour. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., vi. 801. On oaks. No. 677, female. 



^' WiKDOWED Cyrtosia, * C. fenestrata. Yellow marbled with 

 rufous; a pellucid spot behind the summit of the keel and a 

 smaller one half way to the apex; an oblique yellow vitta 

 below the anterior spot, margined with fuscous or sanguineous; 

 tip of the thorax reaching beyond the terminal cells of the 

 elytra. Male black, the pellucid spots almost obsolete and 



[+ Error for Ctrtosia.] 



