138 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9I; 



Tlwninotettix ciliata Osbor'n. 



Thamnotettix ciliata Osborn. Prac. loAva Acad. Sci. V, 244, (i^ 

 Slender light green with no conspicuous markings above, the veins of 



elj^ra faini, beneath light yellow or whitish, a black spot on each side 



of the last ventral segment of the female. Length 5-5,5 mm. 

 Apparently a rather rare species in the state as only two specimens 



have appeared in the collections of the season, taken at Orono on Aug. 



2nd in a timothy meadow in a low spot probably including some sedges. 

 As this species was described from specimens taken in Iowa and has 



not hitherto been recorded for any point further east it is a rather 



intertesing matter to find it at such a distance and to extend the range 



of the species by so large a jump. 



fTliainnofeftix placidus Osbom. 



Thamnotettix placidus Osborn, Report State Entomologist X. Y. 20th 

 (1905) p. 536. 



This is a bright yellow species with more orange tint than the related 

 species and with no black markings above except the tergum and with 

 the underside dark j-ellow except for black tip of beak and a series of 

 black points on the middle of the venter. Length 5 mm. 



This species was described from specimens taken at Lake Placid in 

 the Adirondacks and it is interesting to record its collection at Orono 

 Aug. 7th and Aug. 13th, thus giving it a considerably wider distribu- 

 tion> It was swept from coarse grass among willow clumps. Its re- 

 stricted distribution and small numbers make it of little economic 

 interest. 



Eutettix strohi Fitch. 



Bythoscopus strobi Fitch Homop, N. Y. State Cab. p. 58, 1851. 

 Phlepsius strohi Van Duzee. Ent. Soc. Trans. XXI, 249. 

 Eutettix strohi Ball. Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci. XII, p. 44, (1907). 



This is a medium sized species, light brown with a tint of rosy, fine 

 lines on the pronotum and elytra but not clearly irrorate, the head 

 siibangulate, a trifle longer at the middle than next the eye and with a 

 faint transverse furrow. Length, 5-5.25 ntm. 



While described from pine the larvae have been found to feed on 

 lambs quarters {Cheno podium) which makes its economic importance 

 slight. 



It has occurred but very rarely in the summers collecting, once at 

 Orono Avhen it was swept from birch aiid again at Ft. Fairfield where 

 it was collected from bushes in a fence row. It is evidently of too rare 

 occurrence to be of economic importance in the state even if its food 

 plant were of value. 



