128 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1915. 



This species has nowhere occurred in any large numbers but it has 

 been taken at a number of different points and is evidently pretty 

 generally distributed over the state. Taken in low ground timothy 

 meadow Aug. 2 and 5th at Orono, Granid Lakes Stream, by Prof. A. P. 

 IMorse Aug. i6th, North Harpswell Aug. 12th, Fort Kent Aug. 26th. 



It is hardly abundant enough to be counted destructive but since it 

 occurs in pastures and meadov^s and as a grass feeder it must be to the 

 extent of its abundance an injurious species. 



Athysaniis striatiilus Fallen. 



Cicada striatulus Fall Hem. Suec. II, 45, 1826. 

 Athysaiiiis histabilis Van Duzee. Can. Ent. XXV, 284, 1893. 

 Athysanus striatulus Osborn and Ball. Ohio Naturalist II, 242. 

 This species is of the size and form of vaccinii, which it quite closely 

 resembles, but it is of a dark brown color and without tawny 'tinge, 

 the legs dark, femora twice annulate with pa)le. Length female 4.5, 

 male 4 mm. Width i mm. 



This species occurs in boggy and swampy places and has been taken 

 at a number of points in Maine, sometimes occurring in considerable 

 abundance but its food plants are commonly the species that occur in 

 wet lands and except for blueberry have comparatively little economic 

 value. The larvae have been taken in bog Aug. 5th. 



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Fig. 30. Athysanus striatulus: o, adult; b, female, c, male genitalia; 

 d, elytron; e, nymph. (After Osbom and Ball.) 



