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External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment twice as long as the 

 preceding, notched on either side of a median tooth which itself is 

 slightly notched; pygofers moderately broad, exceeded by ovipositor, 

 sparsely covered with white spines which arise from black dots. Male, 

 valve large, rounded posteriorly; plates together forming a triangle 

 about as long as wide, over twice as long as the valve, spined margins 

 convexly narrowing till near the subacute apices which equal the broad 

 pygofers. 



Intet-nal male genitalia: Styles large, triangular in outline, anterior 

 process large, with a deep incision on the outer margin apically, leaving a 

 long, somewhat curved, bluntly pointed, terminal process; connective 

 short, Y-shaped, the stem slightly longer than the branches; oedagus 

 heavy basally and with a large dorsal process to the membrane of the 

 anal tube, divided terminally into a moderately stout median process and 

 two slender lateral processes. 



Distribution: Common throughout the state, especially in 

 the eastern part, as shown by the following map : 



Hosts: The plant or plants on which the nymphs feed are 

 not yet definitely known, but the adults are taken on a large 

 number of plants such as grape, garden vegetables and many 

 others. 



Eutettix strobi (Fh.). 



(PI. 13, figs. 3-4.) 

 Bythoscopus utruhi Fh., Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 58, 1851. 

 Phlepsius strobi Van D., Psyche, v, p. 390, 1890. 

 Eutettix strobi Bak., Psyche, vii, Suppl. i, p. 24, 1896. 

 Eutettix strobi Osb., 30th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 531, 1905. 



Eutettix strobi Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., xii, p. 44, pi. 2, fig'. 2. pi. 4, fig. 3, 1907 

 Eutettix strobi Ball, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Bui. 66, pi. 4, p. 49, 1909. 

 Eutettix strobi Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 138, 1915. 

 Eutettix strobi DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 67, 1916. 

 Eutettix strobi Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 665, 1917. 

 Eutettix strobi Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 76, 1919. 



