A. FE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 801 
tibiz ; length, 9™™. October, L. Mowbray. Identified by Mr. O. 
Heidemann. 
Leaf-hopper. (Cicudula, sp., t. O. Heidemann.) 
Head, body, and legs light green, darker on abdomen, which is 
crossed by narrow, pale yellowish green sutural bands ; wings whit- 
ish, faintly tinged with yellow or pale lilac ; eyes blackish. Length, 
2.4™™; to tips of folded wings, 3.6™™. Several sent by L. Mowbray 
in October. 
Fulgorids.—The Lantern-fly family is represented by a small 
species: Peciloptera, or Ormenis, pruinosa Say, the “frosted hop- 
per,” recorded by Jones, 1876. 
- The larva is white or pale green, with dark feet. It is more or 
less covered with a white thread-like secretion, forming a tuft at the 
Figure 174.—Tarnished Leaf-bug, x3}; after Saunders. Figure 175.—Black 
Ground-bug (Pangeus bilineatus); 41g. Figure 176.—Ocean-bug (Halo- 
bates, sp.), nat. size; from Webster’s International Dictionary. 
end of the body and easily detached. They feed in colonies on the 
under side of leaves and twigs of various plants. The adults vary 
in color, some being whitish, others bluish gray. 
The general color of recent specimens is purplish brown, with more 
or less numerous grayish white, minute scales on the back and ante- 
rior part of fore wings; prothorax black ; eyes edged with orange ; 
front margin of fore wings orange-brown; length, 7°". Common in 
August, Miss V. Hayward, who forwarded specimens for the figures, 
Plate xcix; figure 17, a, b,c. See Howard, Ins. Book, pl. xxvii, 
fig. 28. 
Ocean bugs. (Halobates, fig. 176.) One species (Hl. Wiillerstorffi 
Frauenf.) of this remarkable family has been taken at sea, off 
Trans. Conn. Acap., Vou. XI. 51 Derc., 1902. 
