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A. Front, as seen from side, almost straight concluded. 



CC. Size larger, vertex of female distinctly shorter than 

 broad. Lines on vertex usually distinct and broad. 

 Last ventral segment of male long, cylindrical. 



angulifera. 



BB. Vertex shorter, roundingly acute, margins as seen from above 

 slightly rounding, spots on apex distinct. Profile of front 

 slightly rounding. noveboracensis. 



AA. Front, as seen from side distinctly rounding. Sides of front mottled 

 with brown or unmarked. reticulata. 



Drseculacephala mollipes (Say). 



(PI. 9, figs. 6-7.) 



Tettigonia mollipes Say, Jl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, p. 312, 1831; Compl. Writ.. ii r 

 p. 383. 



Tettigonia mollipes Harr., in Hitchcock Geol. Mass., edn. 2, p. 580, 1835. 



Aulacizes mollipes Ph., Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 56, 1851. 



Tettigonia innotata Walk., List Homop., iii, p. 770, 1851. 



Tettigonia antica Walk., List. Homop., iii, p. 771, 1851. 



Diedrocephala mollipes Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 3, ii, p. 726, pi. 21, figs. 1'2, 13, 

 1854. 



Acopsis viridis Prov., Nat. Can., iv, p. 352, 1872. 



Diedrocephala mollipes Osb., Kept. la. St. Agr. Soc., for 1892, p. 687. 



Tettigonia mollipes Fowl., Biol. Centr. Am., Homop., ii, p. 273, pi. 18, fig. 15, 1900. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 67, pi. 7, fig. 1, 1901. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Osb., 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 511, 1905. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 108, p. 56, 191:.'. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 103, 1915. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Gibs., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 254, 1915. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Van D., Ent. News, xxvi, p. 178, 1915. 



Drceculacephala mollipes DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 27, 1916. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Gibs., Can. Ent., xlviii, p. 177, 1916. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 603, 1917. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Ols., Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxviii, p. 6, 1918. 



Drceculacephala mollipes Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 37, 1919. 



Form: Rather long and slender. Length, 6 to 9.5 mm. Vertex very 

 long, acutely angled, sides straight, disc flat, longer in female than in 

 male. Face straight in profile. Pronotum with lateral margins parallel, 

 anterior margin rounding, posterior margin emarginate. Elytra long, 

 nervures distinctly raised, apical portion reticulate. 



Color: Vertex, anterior part of pronotum and scutellum yellow, latter 

 two sometimes greenish. Vertex with two small apical spots, lines on 

 reflexed portion of front, a median and a pair of lateral lines, brown. 

 Face yellow to fuscous with nine pairs of brown arcs laterally. Disc of 

 pronotum and elytra bright green, nervures light, costal and apical mar- 

 gins light. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment about two-thirds as 

 long as broad, posterior margin sinuate on either side of obtusely rounded 

 median lobe ; pygof ers long and narrow, equalling or exceeding ovipositor 

 and bearing a few stout, coarse hairs along sutural margin. Male, valve 

 short, angularly produced; plates large, as long as pygofers, and with 

 short, stout hairs on margin. 



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