342 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



11. The butternut tree-hopper. 



Ophidenna mera Say. 



Belonging to the same family as the preceding, a greenish-gray tree-hopper, shaped 

 like a half cone, with its apex bright chestnut red, and behind its middle a black 

 band which is sometimes interrupted on the summit of the back, and with a blackish 

 spot on the tips of the hyaline fore-wings. Length, .36 inch. (Fitch.) 



12. The obtuse clastoptera. 



Clastoptera ohtusa Say. 



A short thick almost circular leaf-hopper of a gray color, with fine transverse 



wrinkles and threebrown bands anteriorly, its fore-wings clouded with tawny brown, 



with streaks of white and a coal-black spot near their tips. Length, .22 inch. 



(Fitch.) 



13. The butternut tingis. 



Corythaca arcuata (Say). (Tingis juglandis Fitch.) 



Puncturing the leaves and sucking their juices, a small singular bug, resembling a 

 flake of white froth, its whole upper surface composed of a net-work of small cells, 

 an inflated egg-shaped protuberance like a little bladder on the top of the thorax 

 and head, the sides of the thorax and of the fore- wings, except at their tips, minutely 

 spinulose ; the fore-wings flat and square, with their corners rounded, a large brown 

 or blackish spot on the shoulder, and a broad band of the same color on their tips, 

 with an irregular whitish hyaline spot on the inner hind corner ; the body beneath 

 small and black, the antennje and legs honey- yellow. Length, .14 inch. (Fitch.) 



Fitch remarks that this insect becomes commoa on the leaves of the 

 butternut in May, and continues through the summer and autumn. It 

 may sometimes be met with also on birch, on willows, and other trees. 



The following insects also occasionally live on the butternut : 



Lepidoptera. 



14. ffalesidotacarywB.a>Tr.,Brnnswick,Me.', New York. (Beutenmiiller.) 



15. Orgyia leucostigma Abbot and Smith. 



16. Ryphantria cunea Abbot and Smith. (See p. 244.) 



17. Actias luna (Linn). (See p. 330.) 



18. Platysamia cecropia (Linn). 



19. Telea polyphemus (Linn). (See pp. 161, 300.) (Riley's notes.) 



20. Datana ministra (Drury). (See p. 302.) 



21. Grapholitha caryce (Shimer). 



22. Lithocolletis carycefoUella Clem. 



COLEOPTERA. 



23. Gyllene pictus (Drury). (See p. 287.) 



24. Sterioscelis brevis (Boh.). Breeding in wood. (Chittenden in letter). 



25. Eugnamptus augustatus (Hbst.) Beaten from trees. (Chittenden). 



26. Eugnamptus collaris (Lee). Beaten from trees. (Chittenden). 



27. Magdalis salicis. Bred from wood. (Chittenden). 



28. Paria canella and vars. Feeding on leaves. (Chittenden). 



29. Gryptorhynchus parochus (Herbst). Several example staken on the 



trunk of a butternut. (Chittenden). 



