lOO MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I915. 



Tettigoniella gothica Sign. 



Tettigonia gothica Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1854, p. 345. 



Tettigonia hieroglyphica, in reference from Eastern states (Nee. Say). 



Tettigonia similis Woodw. III. State Lab. Bui. 3, 1887, p. 25. 



As Ball has pointed out this species must have been the basis for 

 records of hieroglyphica in localities east of Illinois. 



It is light reddish or grayish green, the head with several lines on the 

 vertex w^hich double on each other, nearly parallel with median line, 

 and prominent spot at apex black. Length 5.5 mim to 6 mm. 



It occurs in great numbers in the undergrowth along the margin of 

 thickets and may be collected by thousands in almost any suitable local- 

 ity. 



The larva is light yellow with a dark stripe on each side, a broad 

 median stripe light, narrowing at tip of vertex and on last segment of 

 abdomen. Eye black anteriorly and posteriorly with vertical yellow 

 band including black dot. Beneath with eyes light greenish yellow, tips 

 of tarsi black. 



Both larvae and adults have been taken in large numbers at every 

 poirit where collections have been made from Portland in S. W. and 

 Van Buren and Ft. Kent in N. E. and its distribution may be considered 

 as covering the state. Actual records are at Orono, on oak. June 21, 

 nymphs only Aug. 5, nymphs and adults, N. Harpswell, Aug. 12, Port- 

 land, Aug. 13 and 14, Highmoor Farm Aug. 15. Mt. Katahdin up to 

 lower altitude Aug. 20-22, Houlton Aug. 24, Mars Hill, Aug. 25, Ft. 

 Fairfield, Aug. 26, Ft. Kent Aug. 28. 



It occurs, however, on a great variety of plants and in such numbers 

 as must become a serious drain. Its great range of food plants will 

 make it a difficult species to control, but in grass land or in fields it is 

 open to same methods of attack as other grass species. The nymphs 

 have been taken from grass land as well as from some shrubs and tre-es 

 and adults are recorded from birch and willow. 



Penthimia americana Fitch. 



Penthimia americana Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab. 1851, p. 57; 



reprinted in Lintner 9th Rep't 1893, p. 397. 



A thick bodied dark red or blackish species appearing bluntly rounded 

 at both ends and closely resembling members of the Froghopper family 

 (Cercopidae). Length 5 to 6 mm. 



This species would be expected over a considerable part if not the 

 entire state as it is common in N. Y. and westward, but this season has 

 been taken but once, a single specimen being beaten from bushes in the 

 Bangor bog near Orono on Aug. 30th, and one July 10, 1914. Van Duzee 

 gives its distribution as New York to Florida and Mich, so this record 

 extends its known eastward distribution over New England. Evidently 

 it may be disregarded from the economic view point. 



It seems hardly probable that it should be so rare or that this repre- 

 sents its limit of distribution and it may be looked for at other points. 



