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able to suggest in auswer to the urgent inquiries of tlie Soutli Carolina 

 farmers has been that used for tlie destruction of the allied leaf- hoppers 

 on the grape vine, namely, carrying lighted torches throng! t the infested 

 fields at night, or building bonfires at different points. These insects 

 are readily attracted by light, and great numbers will without doubt be 

 destroyed. One or another of the trap lanterns mentioned in that part 

 of this report relating to the cotton worm could without much doubt be 

 used to advantage if a number were mounted on posts in different parts 

 of the fields. 



A green Ieaf-ho]>per somewhat larger in size has recently been received 

 from Laurens, S. C., with an account of its injuries similar to those given 

 of the destructive leaf-hopper. It was identified by Professor Uhler as 

 the Diedrocephala flaviceps of Eiley, a species which did much injury to 

 grain in Texas in 1876. 



DESCRIPTIVE. 



CiCADULA EXiTioSA Uhler (n. sp.)- 



Long subfusiform, ground color pale testaceous, polished above, but dull beneath ; 

 the upper surface of the abdomen black, excepting the lateral and hind margins of the 

 segments. Face yellow, crossed on each side by a series of slender, brown, curved 

 lines, the outer cheeks with two long brown spots, and the forehead with a roundish, 

 black spot each side of the middle, exterior to which the reddish-brown ocelli are seen 

 nest the suture, and below the latter is a small, brown spot of about their size ; in the 

 middle is usually a small brown dot. The vertex is arcuated ; with the tip a little 

 angular, the sui-face on the posterior half transversely depress^, and marked with a 

 curved, brown, transverse cloud, which has two blacliish dots just behind it, a small 

 spot near each outer angle, and a slender streak along the middle : any one, or several, 

 of these are sometimes absent. Pronotum with a whitish line iu the middle and a 

 short oblique one each side ; anteriorly is a strongly ciu-ved series of longish brown 

 dots, and on the posterior half ficcasionally a few obscure, cloudy marks. Scutellnm 

 with a pale line on the middle running through a brown spot, or only a faint cloud 

 instead ; each side, basally, with a whitish oblique line, and near each basal angle is 

 a deltoid brown mark or line. Hemelytra translucent, or faintly tinged with brown, 

 narrow, moderately valvate ; the costal nervule pale, moderately curved ; the other 

 nervules brown ; those of the clavis and its margins very much thickened, and some- 

 times tinged around with brownish cloudings. A few specimens show pale interrup- 

 tions near the middle of the discoidal nervules. Wings milky or almost transparent 

 whitish. Legs pale yellow, with the knees and tarsi occasionally brownish. Sternum 

 and base of venter black. 

 Length of body, 3-}-4t"""; to tip of wings, 4^-5}'"™; width of pronotum, l^-lf™™ 

 This description was furnished to the American Entomologist at the same time that 

 it was sent for publication in this report, and appeared m No. o, Vol. Ill, of that 

 journal. The species then dates from the publication of that number rather than from 

 the time of publication of this report. 



THE OLOYEE-SEED MIDGE. 



{Gecidoonyia legumenieola Lintner.) 



Order Diptera, family Cecidomytdae. 



ADDITIONAL PACTS CONCERNING ITS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Eating out the contents of the seed vessel of red and white clover, and afterwards 

 dropping to the ground to transform, a minute oval, orange-colored maggot. 



In the last annual report of this department. Professor Eiley, then 

 entomologist, made mention of the extensive injuries of this insect in 

 various parts of New York State, and gave a short review of the facts 

 which were known concerning its natural history, accompanying it with 

 illustrations of the larva and adult. Mr. Lintner, in the Canadian En- 

 tomologist for July, 1871), gave a few additional f^ots on classification 

 and geographical distribution. The manner m which the former article 

 lo AG 



