LEAFHOPPERS OF MAINE. I4I 



Ft. Fairfield Aug. 26th and Ft. Kent Aug. 28th and 29th. At the latter 

 place it was especially abundant in pastures and meadow lands and 

 would seem to have the same economic importance that irroratus has 

 in the Mississippi valley. 



The larval form has not been determined but will pretty certainly be 

 found in the grasslands where the adults occur. 



Phlepsius maculellus n sp. 



Approaching maculatus in general appearance but sufficiently different 

 to make reference to that species uncertain. Head short. Dark macu- 

 lations rather coarse. Length 6 mm. 



Head as wide as pronotum, slightly produced but little longer at 

 middle than next the eye, faintly subangulate; vertex sloping, with ri 

 faint transverse impression, rounded to the front; front broad, slightly 

 tumid, narrowing uniformly to base of clypeus'; clypeus widening to 

 tip, one-half longer than wide. Pronotum strongly arched anteriorly, 

 slightly concave on hind margin. 



Color, light brown marked with fuscous, the head, pronotum and 

 scutellum light brown with minute fuscous irrorations ; front densely 

 irrorate with fine lines and dots ; elytra maculate, white, with large 

 spots and ramose lines of fuscous. 



Genitalia, male valve broad nearly as wide as preceding segment, 

 hind border obtusely angular, plates very broad and short, width and 

 length about equal, outer border strongly curved and the margin set 

 with a close row of short hairs. 



One specimen, male, taken at Orono Aug. 5, 1913 in boggy lowland. 

 While this species has some resemblance to maculatus, which was de- 

 scribed from female only, the agreement is not close enough to warrant 

 reference to that species. It is possibly the male of some described 

 species but until it can be definitely related to the proper form it had 

 better stand under a separate name. 



Phlepsius dccorns O. and B. 



Phlepsius deconis Osborn and Ball. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. IV, 230, 



(1897). 



A broad dark gray species with rather conspicuous light markings on 

 pronotum and along inner border of elytra. Length, 5 mm. 



This species was described from specimens taken in Iowa and it has 

 since been taken in Iowa and New York and Ohio but not in New Eng- 

 land. It was a matter of interest therefore to find it in Maine and as a 

 few specimens were taken at the base of Mt. Katahdin on the river at 

 mouth of Abol stream and a specimen at Mars Hill half way up the 

 mountain, it carries its distribution well to the northeast. It lives in 

 wet places on sedge or coarse grass and at Mt. Katahdin was taken 

 from rank growth along the river bank and at Mars Hill in a little 

 patch of sedge marking what was evidently a springy place in the side 



