﻿NO. 
  1138. 
  AMERICAN 
  TYPHLOCT^IXAE— 
  GILLE 
  TIE. 
  727 
  

  

  color 
  golden 
  yellow, 
  jjaler 
  on 
  posterior 
  margin, 
  having 
  a 
  slender 
  dark 
  

   median 
  line, 
  ocelli 
  pits 
  large 
  and 
  pale 
  in 
  color, 
  bnt 
  no 
  ocelli; 
  eyes 
  very 
  

   black 
  and 
  large, 
  shortest 
  distance 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  1.7 
  times 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  vertex 
  at 
  the 
  middle. 
  Pronotum 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  vertex 
  

   and 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long; 
  anterior 
  two-thirds 
  golden 
  yellow, 
  

   the 
  remainder 
  black. 
  Scutellum 
  bright 
  green 
  at 
  tip 
  bnt 
  somewhat 
  

   smoky 
  on 
  posterior 
  xiortion. 
  Elytra 
  pale 
  green, 
  a 
  de.ep 
  smoky 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  band 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  clavus, 
  not 
  quite 
  attaining 
  the 
  costal 
  

   margin, 
  the 
  apical 
  area 
  deep 
  smoky 
  on 
  inner 
  half, 
  second 
  apical 
  cell 
  

   with 
  a 
  short 
  peduncle. 
  Tergum 
  washed 
  with 
  golden 
  yellow, 
  venter 
  pale 
  

   green, 
  tips 
  of 
  pygofers 
  and 
  ovipositor 
  deep 
  green. 
  Legs 
  pale 
  green 
  

   with 
  tips 
  of 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  deep 
  blue 
  green. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  1^0. 
  3419, 
  U.S.X.M. 
  

  

  Described 
  from 
  a 
  female 
  from 
  Professor 
  W. 
  A. 
  Snow 
  marked 
  " 
  From 
  

   electric 
  light, 
  DougUis 
  Co., 
  Ivans.," 
  from 
  two 
  females 
  and 
  one 
  male 
  from 
  

   Mr. 
  0. 
  A. 
  Hart, 
  taken 
  at 
  Champaign, 
  Illinois, 
  and 
  bearing 
  the 
  number 
  

   544, 
  and 
  a 
  good 
  number 
  of 
  both 
  sexes 
  fiom 
  Ames, 
  Iowa, 
  taken 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  E. 
  D. 
  Ball, 
  July 
  12, 
  on 
  cottonwood. 
  Possibly 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  obfusa. 
  

  

  EMPOASCA 
  CLYPEATA 
  Gillette 
  & 
  Baker. 
  

  

  Empoasca 
  chjpeaia 
  Gillette 
  A: 
  Baker, 
  Bull. 
  31, 
  Colo. 
  Agr. 
  Exp. 
  8ta., 
  p. 
  108, 
  1895. 
  

  

  Male: 
  Clypeus 
  one-half 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  basal 
  suture 
  straight; 
  

   lorae 
  as 
  in 
  T. 
  saru/Kuiea 
  ; 
  genae 
  very 
  

   narrow, 
  attaining 
  the 
  clypeus 
  as 
  a 
  very 
  

   narrow 
  line, 
  lateral 
  margins 
  nearly 
  

   straight; 
  front 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   its 
  greatest 
  width 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

  

  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  supe- 
  ^ 
  ^- 
  

  

  rior 
  angle 
  very 
  broad 
  and 
  obtusely 
  fi«s. 
  4g 
  and 
  47.— 
  face 
  and 
  vertex 
  and 
  

  

  1 
  1 
  T-i 
  1 
  i. 
  x: 
  1 
  1 
  PKOXOTIM 
  OF 
  EMPOASCA 
  CLYPEATA. 
  

  

  rounded 
  Face 
  and 
  vertex 
  hnely 
  sha- 
  

  

  greeued. 
  Disk 
  of 
  vertex 
  flat, 
  sloping, 
  scarcely 
  longer 
  on 
  the 
  middle 
  

   than 
  next 
  the 
  eye. 
  Pronotum 
  slightly 
  wrinkled 
  on 
  j)osterior 
  two- 
  

   thirds, 
  glabrous 
  in 
  front, 
  slightly 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  

   anterior 
  margin 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  posterior 
  margin 
  concave, 
  posterior 
  

   angles 
  sharply 
  rounded, 
  sides 
  long. 
  Scutellum 
  normal, 
  transverse 
  

   suture 
  straight. 
  Color 
  yellowish; 
  in 
  light 
  sijecimens, 
  face, 
  vertex, 
  pro- 
  

   notum, 
  and 
  scutellum 
  yellowish, 
  concolorous; 
  in 
  dark 
  specimens 
  fiont 
  

   wiLli 
  a 
  medium 
  white 
  line, 
  jnonotum 
  dusky 
  on 
  posterior 
  half, 
  scutellum 
  

   with 
  basal 
  angles 
  and 
  transverse 
  groove 
  dark; 
  elytra 
  in 
  light 
  si)eci- 
  

   mens 
  yellowish 
  subhyaline, 
  in 
  dark 
  specimens 
  shaded 
  into 
  deep 
  smoky 
  

   subhyaline; 
  venter 
  and 
  legs 
  entirely 
  pale 
  yellow, 
  sometimes 
  tibiae 
  and 
  

   tarsi 
  slightly 
  smoky. 
  

  

  Length, 
  4.5 
  mm. 
  Described 
  from 
  six 
  males. 
  (See 
  Figs. 
  46, 
  47.) 
  

  

  Type,—^o. 
  3420, 
  U.S.X.M. 
  

  

  Estes 
  Park, 
  July 
  10 
  (Gillette). 
  Steamboat 
  Springs, 
  July 
  10 
  on 
  willow 
  

   (Baker). 
  

  

  