180 THE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Eutettix pictus Van D. 



Eutettix pictus Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xix, p. 301, 1892. 



Eutettix magnus Osb., Ent. News, xi, p. 395, 1900. 



Eutettix subcenea var picta Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., xii, p. 34, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1907. 



Eutettix sub(rnea var picta DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 6.5, 1917. 



Eutettix pictus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 663, 1917. 



Eutettix pictus Lathr., S. C. A'gr- Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 7-5, 1919. 



Form : Large and robust. Length, 5 to 7 mm. Vertex little longer on 

 middle than next the eyes, over twice as wide as long, disc sloping to a 

 preapical transverse depression, then elevated, sloping portion longi- 

 tudinally striated, raised portion transversely striated. Pronotum over 

 twice as broad as long, lateral margins shorter than the humeral, pos- 

 terior margin slightly emarginate, disc transversely wrinkled. Scutellum 

 broad, elytra moderately long, exceeding the abdomen, venation simple, 

 only one cross nervure between the sectors. 



Color: Vertex, pronotum and scutellum lemon-yellow; anterior half 

 of pronotum dark brown or black, a band of like color across the pronotum 

 just in front of the yellow posterior margin. Elytra dark brown or black, 

 a common oval spot on the suture before the apex of clavus and anterior 

 two-thirds of costal margin, pale yellow, these varying greatly in size, 

 sometimes absent. Sometimes a large hyaline spot before the apex. Face 

 in males dark, in females black above and below but light in the middle. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment half longer than pre- 

 ceding, posterior margin shallowly emarginate on either side of a small 

 median lobe; pygofers broad, exceeded by the ovipositor, slightly spined. 

 Male, valve broad, triangular, margins concave just before the subacute 

 apex; plates large, convex, over three times as long as the valve, spiny 

 margins rounding to blunt apices which equal the pygofers. 



Distribution: Taken in Cherokee county only. 



Hosts: De Long reports this species from oak shrubs. 



Eutettix tenellus (Bak.). 



Thami.otettix tenellus G. & B., Hemip. Colo., p. 100, 1895 (MS. name). 



Ihamnotettix tenellus Bak., Psyche, vii, Suppl., p. 24, 1896. 



.Eutettix tenella Ball, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Bui. 66, pt. 4, p. 35, pi. 1, llg. J, 

 1904. 



Eutettix tenella Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., xii, p. 41, pi. 1, fig. 11, pi. 4, figs. 4, 5, 

 1907. 



Eutettix tenella Essig, Inj. Benef. Ins. Calif., edn. 2, p. 04, 1915. 



Eutettix tenella Smith & Boncq., Phytopathologj-, v, p. 335, 1915. 



Eutettix tenella Boncq. & Hart., Phytopathologj-, p. 348, 1916. 



Eutettix tenellus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 664, 1917. 



Eutettix tenella Ball, Utah Agr. Col. Exp. Sta., Bui. 155, 1917. 



Eutettix tenella Ser. & Thorn., Jl. Ec. Ent., xi, p. 308, 1918. 



Eutettix tenella Sev. & Thom., Jl. Ec. Ent., xi, p. 308, 1918. 



Eutettix tettella Stahl & Carsn., Jl. Agr. Research, xiv, p. 393, 1918. 



Eutettix teriella Sev., Jl. Ec. Ent., xii, pp. 303, 312, 1919. 



Eutettix tenella Sev., Facts About Sugar, 8, Nos. 7-13, 1919. 



F.or7yi : Length, 3 to 3.5 mm. Vertex one-fourth longer on middle than 

 next the eye, about twice as wide as long, transverse depression lacking 



