326 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



117. THE CLOUDY-TIPPED CIXIUS. 



Cixius coleepeum Fitch. 



Rarely found on the leaves, a small four-winged homopter of a coal-black color, 

 with clear, transparent wings having a large smoky-brown cloud on their tips; fore- 

 wings transparent, their veins dotted with black, the dots on the outer margin 

 larger; an irregular and somewhat broken band of a smoky-brown color extending 

 across forward of the middle and a broader one beyond the middle, having a black 

 spot or stigma on the anterior corner of its outer end ; between these bands a smoky- 

 brown spot on the inner and a smaller one nearly opposite it on the outer margin ; 

 thorax with three raised lines; face black with the raised lines brown; legs dull 

 whitish. Length, .22 inch. (Fitch.) 



118. Amiot's otiocerus 



Otiocerus amyotii Fitch. 



A light yellow homopter ; the wing-covers pale sulphur-yellow, with a brown 

 stripe from the base to the middle of the inner margin and thence to the outer tip ; 

 a row of blackish dots on the hind edge alternating with the ends of the apical veins, 

 and about six dots forward of the innermost of these, placed on the tips of the sub- 

 apical and on the bases of the apical veins ; three brown stripes on the thorax ; an 

 orange-red stripe on each side of the head from the eye to the forward edge below 

 the apex. Length, .25; expanse of wings, .70 inch. (Fitch.) 



119. The large green tree bug. 

 Eaphigaster pensylvanicm (De Geer.) 



A large flattened grass-green bug (hemipter) edged all around with a light yellow 

 line, interrupted at each joint of the abdomen by a small black spot, its antennae 

 black beyond the middle of their third joint, with a pale yellow band on the first 

 half of the last two joints. Length, .60 and .70 inch. (Fitch.) 



AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 



120. The hickory-shuck worm. 



Grapholitha caryana (Fitch.) 



Order Lepidoptera ; family Tortricid.e. 



Mining the shucks which envelope the nuts, causing them to bo abortive and many 

 to fall from the tree prematurely, a slender white sixteen-footed caterpillar about 

 three-eighths of an inch in length. 



Dr. H. Shimer states that the larvae were found by him in Illinois in 

 August and September, living in the nut of Garya aniara (bitternut* 

 hickory) ; " they destroy the interior of the uut, causing it to fall to the 

 ground. The imago appeared in the latter part of November ; it there- 

 fore hybernates in this state, and continues to live in the spring until 

 some time in June, when the nut is sufficiently developed to receive the 

 egg." (Trans. Amer. Ent, Soc.,ii, 394.) We have collected this moth 

 (identified by Prof. Fernald) May 20 in a growth of young hickories at 

 Providence j the moth was fresh and unrubbed. 



