I04 MAINE AGRICCLTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I915. 



Princeton, collected b}' Prof. A. P. Morse, North Harpswell Aug. 12, 

 Portland Aug. 14, ]\It. Kj^tahdin Aug. 21, Mars Hill Aug. 25, Ft. Fair- 

 field and Phair Aug. 26, Van Buren Aug. 27, Ft. Kent Aug. 28-29. In 

 the northeastern part of the state it occurs very commonly on uplands 

 in pastures, meadows and oatfields and was even taken on potato vines 

 so it must be counted of greater economic importance than where it is 

 confined to boggy or swampy lands. It probably selects succulent plants 

 and its distribution is aftected by climate or season. 



Fig. 17. The bog leafhopper (Helochara communis) : a, Adult; 

 h, side view ; c, head and pronotum of female ; d, head and pronotum 

 of male; e, face; f, female genitalia; g, male genitalia; h, elytron. 

 All enlarged (From U. S. Dept. Agric. Bureau of Entomology — 

 Bui. No. 108.) 



Etica>ithus acuminatus Fabr. 



Cicada acuminata Fabricius. Ent. Syst. IV :^, 40, I794- 

 Eucanthus orbitalis Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab. 57, 1851. 

 Eucanthus acuminatus Osborn and Ball. Proc. la. Acad. Sci. IV, 182. 



Black with white markings on head and elytra. The vertex is 

 depressed, the ocelli near the forward part of the disk, elytra with white 

 stripes parallel to the veins. Length 5 mm. 



This species has been found very sparingly in Elaine, one record July 

 22 on Viburnum for Orono and another for Mt. Katahdin where a few 



