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Fieb., Cicad. d'Europe, III, p. 9, 1878. 

 Sahlberg, Cicadaria;, p. 412, 1971. 

 Liburnia notula, Edwd., Trans. Ent. Soc, London., 1886, p. 62. 



Several specimens that correspond in ever}' particular with material of 

 M. notulus received from M. Lethierry were taken by me along Muskoka 

 River near Bracebridge. Ont. in July 18S8. I have not taken it further south 

 nor has it been recorded from elsewhere in this country. It is evidently 

 rare and probably northern in its range. 



Note: Since this was written I have taken a pair among the hills at 

 Colden, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1896. So its southern range must be extended at 

 least to Western New York. 



MEGAMELUS PICEUS, Van D. 

 Davis, Bui. 102 Mich. Ag. Exp. Station, p. 8, pi. i, fig. 5, 1S94. Re- 

 print in Exp. Station Record, V, p 792, 1894. 

 Van Duzee, Bui. Bufif. Soc. Nat. Sci., V, p. 190, 1894. 



Piceous-black ; base of the vertex, keels and narrow hind edge of the 

 pronotura, disk of the mesonotum, or at least its carinse, disk of the tergum, 

 especially towards its base and apex, and the edge of the dorsal keel, the 

 genital segments and sometimes the base of the venter, brownish yellow. 

 Face pale shaded to brown above, clypeus deep black. Antennae, rostrum, 

 tylus and legs pale soiled yellow, the latter lineated with brown. Elytra 

 reaching to the second abdominal segment in the brachypterous form with 

 the apex truncated, piceous-brown or even black, with the apical edge white, 

 more or less broadly interrupted with black at the middle, nervures strong, 

 granulated. In the macropterous form the elytra extend considerably 

 beyond the tip of the abdomen, about as in Liburnia pellucida ; they are 

 smoky with pale granulated nervures, the exterior and interior of which are 

 forked at about three fourths their length. Pygofers of the male cylindrical, 

 on their ventral aspect cut out for about one half their length and carrying 

 on the base of this incisure a wide and short projection extended into a 

 short conical divergent tooth at each angle; beyond this are the incurved 

 spine-like stiles included between the long slender ventral projections of the 

 platen. Length 2^ to 3 m. m. 



New York and Michigan. Described from many examples of both sexes 

 taken in Western New York on grass in low swampy meadows in August 

 and September, and one female taken on celery at Kalamazoo, Mich., August 

 26th, 1893, by Mr. G. C. Davis. 



This description was first published in connection with Mr. Davis' paper 

 on Celery Insects cited above, and reprinted in the Experiment Station 

 Record. 



MEGAMELUS MARGINATUS, n. sp. 



Yellowish testaceous above, paler beneath. Frontal fova; with a slender 

 black line next the white carina; ; outer submargin of the cheeks, some 

 marks on the pleural pieces, knees and tips of the tarsi dark brown or black. 

 Venter and pronotum sometimes whitish with the sides of' the scutellum 

 yellowish. Abdomen black, the segments edged with fulvous, the apical 



