LEAFHOPPERS OF MAINE. QI 



Vertex very short, strongly angled, rounded at extreme tip ; pronotum 

 sharply angled in front, sloping to front and sides, concave behind or 

 with hind border subangularly excavated. 



Color of female light green, elytra becoming transparent toward 

 tip; eyes brown; a black spot at base of tibia; tarsi yellowish brown; 

 male slightly darker than female the elytra in one specimen faintly, in 

 the other distinctly smoky; scutellum with a black triangle in lateral 

 angles, eyes and tarsi as in female and the black spot on base of hind 

 tibiae distinct. 



Three specimens, one female and two males, taken in sweeping on a 

 clump of Cornus July 22, 1914, near Orono, on Dr. Patch's farm. No 

 nymphs were taken and it is unsafe to regard Cornus as positively the 

 food plant as there were willows in the vicinity and as there was a 

 strong wind blowing these individuals may have been carried from 

 these or some of the other trees in the vicinity. However no corres- 

 ponding forms have been taken in extensive sweeping in the same 

 locality on willows and other native shrubs and trees. The black spot 

 at base of hind tibiae is a very distinct feature and separates the species 

 at once from any others known to me. 



This species is apparently identical with the European form and has 

 been recorded for America but once, in my report upon the "Jassidae 

 of New York," (1905). 20th Rept. State Entom. N. Y., p. 505. The 

 New York specimens were referred to the A^ariety gram'mea in which 

 there is a black spot at tip of vertex. 



Pediopsis trimaciilata Fitch. 



Pediopsis trimaculata Fitch Stata. Cab. Nat. Hist. p. 60, 1851. 



Pediopsis insignis Van D. Ent. Am. V. 171. 1889. 



Pediopsis trimaculata Osborn and Ball Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci. VH no, 1898. 



This species is dull yellowish brown or in the male gray brown with 

 three white spots on the elytra. Length 4-4.25 mm. 



A single specimen of this species has been taken at Orono July 25th, 

 1914. 



Pediopsis sordida Van Duzee? 



Pediopsis sordida Van D. Can. Ent. XXVI, p. 89, 1894. 

 One specimen doubtfully referred to this species was taken at Orono 

 July 3, 1914. It agrees quite closely with the description except in some 

 of the color details but heretofore sordida has been recorded only from 

 Colorado. It would be undesirable however to describe as a new species 

 the single specimen in hand with the strong probability that sordida 

 has an extended range in the northern part of the country. This speci- 

 men is 4.5 mm in length. 



