40 LEAFHOPPERS AFFECTING CEREALS, ETC. 
species. Not having a net, he collected only two specimens. ‘‘ There 
were spots and blotches on the fresh blades which may have been 
made by these bugs, but I was unable to catch any in the act. A 
movement of the grain raised a cloud of the hoppers.’ ‘They were 
also reported for 1908 as occurring in numbers on barley and alfalfa 
at the same place and at Spartanburg on corn June 2 and 3. Reports 
of damage to cowpeas in 1908 and 1909 indicate serious injury. 
“The larve were in all stages and were found almost altogether on 
the underside of the leaves. A few were seen on the petioles. Usu- 
ally not more than one was to be found on one leaf.” 
In South Dakota they were reported as affecting alfalfa in 1905. 
In Tennessee there is a record of their occurrence on wheat at Union 
City in 1905 and at Knoxville on rye and oats in 1998. The record 
of occurrence on rye states that they were numerous in all stages on 
the small plants that had been cut and then stooled out. The jassids 
were on the leaves ‘‘way down into the crown of the plant.” There 
is also a record for the occurrence on peanuts in 1908. 
Anumber of records are given for the State of Texas, those for wheat 
being from Paris (1905), Arlmgton, Dallas, Corsicana, Greenville, 
and Whitesboro in 1908, and on cats for the same year at Arlington, 
Dallas, Corsicana, Greenville, and Whitesboro. There is a record 
for grass at Sinton, where it is stated that the jassids abounded every- 
where upon Bermuda and other varieties of grass growing m damp 
places near the water tank and creek. At Denison, Tex., they are 
reported as occurring on barley, and the report states that a small 
field of barley, about one-fifth acre, had been killed outright a week 
or ten days previously by Toxoptera. No sign of the latter could 
be found, but there was an abundance of Jasside, all of one species. 
These were the prevalent insects at the time of the outbreak. This 
species was determined as Cicadula 6-notata. At Ringgold they were 
reported as numerous in one oats field and damaging the plants. 
The cast skins were numerous on the leaves (which would prove 
development on oats). On March 17, 1908, there were few adults. 
At Whitesboro on oats they were reported very thick, causmg red 
spots to occur, the cast skins hanging to the leaves, but no adults 
among them. At Grand Prairie in September, 1907, they occurred 
on grass. At Dallas in 1909 they were infesting alfalfa and sorghum; 
in some cases they were very numerous and causing injury; im others 
no injury was apparent. 
At Charlottesville, Va., they were reported on alfalfa for October 5, 
1906. These were from an alfalfa field on the farm of E. C. Massie 
and from borders of the field also. Mr. Massie claimed that the 
alfalfa came up nicely and was almost at once eaten up; there is 
no absolute certainty that the species collected were concerned in 
the destruction of the alfalfa, but they were abundant in the imme- 
diate vicinity of the field. i 
