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113. The yellow tree-hoppek. 



Telamona unicolor Fitch. 



A tree-hopper of a uniform dull ocher-yellow, somewhat like a beech-nut in shape 

 and size, with a prominent hump jutting up on the middle of its back, highest ante- 

 riorly and descending with a slight curve to its hind angle, which is very obtusely 

 rounded and but little prominent ; its interior angle also rounded and with only a 

 slight concavity below it at the forward end of the hump, while at its posterior base 

 is a strong one, the whole surface with close coarse punctures and showing a few 

 elevated longitudinal lines low down on each side and towards the tip ; the upper 

 edge of the hump black and also the tip of the abdomen on its under side ; fore-wings 

 glassy, with a black spot on their base and tip, and their veins margined with slender 

 black lines. Length, .45 inch ; height, .25 inch. 



114. The banded tree-hopper. 



Telamona fasciata Fitch. 



Like the preceding species, but smaller and of a tawny-yellow color, its head and 

 the anterior edge of the thorax and the under side paler cream-yellow or straw-col- 

 ored, with a single small black dot above each eye; its thorax in front and at tip 

 blackish, and also an oblique baud across the hind end of the dorsal lump longer 

 than high, longer at its base than above, highest anteriorly, with a stronger con- 

 cavity at its anterior end than at its posterior, and at its anterior base compressed 

 and forming hereby a shallow indentation upon each side. Length, .38; height, .20 

 inch. (Fitch.) 



115. The short-horned tree-hopper. 



Ceresa btevieornis Fitch. 



Very like Ceresa bubalus on the apple and wild thorn, but differing in having the 

 horns much shorter, while the sides of the thorax, when viewed in front, are not 

 gradually curved outwards, but are straight or rectiliuear, with the horns abruptly 

 projecting from the corner at the upper end of this line. The acute spine at the tip 

 of the thorax is also longer and slenderer. The thorax between the horns is slightly 

 convex. The dried specimen is of a pale dull yellow color speckled with faint pale 

 green dots and with a paler straw-colored stripe, quite distinct, upon the angular 

 sides of the thorax from each eye upward to the horn and from thence to the summit 

 of the thorax. Length, .36 inch. (Fitch.) 



116. The face-banded cixius. 



Cixiua cinctifrons Fitch. 



A small four-winged hemipter of a white color, varied with blackish brown, and 

 with three elevated lines upon the face and thorax; its face snow-white, crossed by 

 *two black bands, the outer raised lines dotted with white in these bands ; the thorax 

 black, tawny yellow on each side beyond the raised lines; neck white with a row of 

 blackish dots upon each side ; fore-wings smoky brown, their veins dotted with black 

 in places, their basal edge, an oblique band and a spot in the middle of the outer 

 margin white, their membranous tips white and somewhat hyaline, with a brown 

 band across the trausverse veinlets, and the hind margin blackish, interrupted by 

 the suow-white tips of the veins ; hind wings black and transparent; under side 

 yellowish-white, with two blackish bands on each of the four forward shanks. 

 Length, .18 inch. 



