200 THE ArPLE LEAF HOPPER 



face reaching the stigmata on the sides of the segments. Dorsum con- 

 siderably darker brown than the venter, the segments for the most 

 part being darkest on their fore and hind margins. Cremaster con- 

 sisting of a conical prominence, somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally, 

 and bearing at its apex two small, rather slender, sharp pointed, down- 

 curved s]:»ines. Spiracles dark l)r()\\n. 



Papaipcnia furcuTa Smith. 



Larva : 



Length, 30 mm. Width of head 2})27 mm. Head yellowish brown 

 in color, more or less dark chestnut brown in the mouth region, and 

 with a slight touch of the same color among the ocelli on each side. 

 Six ocelli present on each side of the head. Scattering hairs present 

 on the head. Body mostly pale grayish flesh color. Cervical shield 

 yellowish brown with darker margins, and with a small dark spot on 

 each side, placed well toward the lateral margin, about half way from 

 the front to the hind margin. Body as a whole without stripes or 

 other markings, except that the tubercles are large and mostly dark 

 brown or blackish, and contrast ver\- strongly with the ground color 

 of the insect. ( These tubercles are much larger and contrast with the 

 color of the general body surface more sharjily than do those of either 

 iiifcla or cataphrocta. ) Tubercles located much as in iiitcla and cata- 

 phnnta. Body naked, with scattering hairs. Spiracles mostly black. 

 Cervical shield an(l supra-anal shield harder and more corneus than 

 those plates of nitcla and cataphracta. The hinder half of the dorsal 

 portion of the preanal segment, and the outer sides of the anal jirolegs 

 also hard and corneus, and resembling the supra-anal plate somewhat 

 in color. Thoracic legs but little darker in color than the bod}- as a 

 wdiole, much lighter than those of either nitcla or cataphracta. 



