Slate, dark grey, or blackish color, which is made to appear bluish 

 by the pruinose powder that covers most of the surface in fresh 

 specimens. 



Head, front, and underside of the body yellowish. Front a little 

 longer than wide, with a faint median carina extending the entire 

 length of the frons. Clypeus with transverse brownish markings. 

 Scutellum arched, without definite carinae. Elytra are wedge-shaped, 

 covered with pruinose powder; when this powder is rubbed off the 

 elytra appear to be blackish, becoming somewhat translucent towards 

 the tips; costal margin and claval suture whitish; corium marked 

 with three or four more or less round, black spots. Wings smoky 

 with venation brown. Legs pale yellow. 



Length of body 5 mm.; length to tip of elytra 7.5 - 8.5 mm. 



This species lives upon a variety of small trees and 

 bushes, especially young hickory. Food plants: oak, elm, 

 white birch, basswood, ash, paw-paw, privet, sassafras, 

 black alder, hazel, prickly ash. orchaid trees, grape, goose- 

 berry, sugar-beet, rhubarb, sweet gi n, and the pecan. 



Ormenis septentrionalis SPINOLA 

 (1839 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., viii, p. 436, Poeciloptera) 



N. Y., N. ,., Pa., Va., Md., D. C., Tenn., N. C., Ga., Ohio, 

 Miss., Kansas, S. C., and Fla. Very abundant all over the 

 South. 



Pale green, powdered with white; eyes pale brown. Front as wide 

 as long, almost broader, the sides rounded to the clypeus, a median 

 carina. Pronotum and scutellum without carinae. Elytra are green 

 or pale green, often with the costal margin yellowish-white, widened 

 at the tip, cut off square with the corners rounded, two subapical 

 veins which are distant from each other as the posterior subapical 

 vein is from the apical margin; the posterior one almost straight, the 

 preceding one undulating, both uniting with the costal vein. Wings 

 milk-white with venation whitish. Abdomen and legs pale greenish- 

 yellow. 



Length of body 6 mm.; length to tip of elytra 9-10 mm. 



Food plants: Climbing bittersweet, dogwood, plum, 

 grape, prickly ash, red oak, hawthorne, black alder, cross- 

 vine, sweet gum, and pecan. 



Ormenis rufifascia WALKER 

 (1851, List of Homoptera, 11, p. 458, Poeciloptera) 



Body grass-green, thorax pale red with three prominent longi- 

 tudinal green stripes. 



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