LEAFHOPPLRS OF MAINE. I43 



Phlepsiiis incisns Van Duzee. 



Phlepsius incisns Van D. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XIX, p. 72, 1892. 

 Two specimens of this species one 5 collected at Orono Aug. 7, and 

 the other S, Portland Aug. 14, 1913. In the latter specimen the plates 

 are more acute than usual but I believe it is properly referred here. 



Phlepsius huuiidiis Van Duzee. 



Phlepsius humidus Van D. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XIX p. 288, 1892. 

 Specimens collected at Highmoor Farm Aug. 15th and i6th, 1913. 

 The species is characterized by broad body and sharp edged vertex 

 and is one of ithe largest species occurring in the state. Length 7-7.5 mm. 



Phlepsius franconiana Ball. 



Phlepsius franconiana Ball. Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XXXV, 1903, 

 p. 228. 



I have taken one specimen, female, of what is evidently this species, 

 at Orono July 3, 1914. It has very much the appearance of Eutettix 

 strobi and indeed in some points especially the "three white bands" on 

 elytra k fits Fitch's description better than the form assigned to that 

 species. 



As the female has not been described I may give the essential char- 

 acters here. The vertex is distinctly angled, as much so as in fulvi- 

 dorsum and slightly upturned at tip with a sharp edge, twice as long at 

 middle as next the eye. The color agrees with Ball's description but 

 there are but three instead of "four white points in a triangle" at apex 

 of scutellum and the light bands of elytra are apparently wider being 

 pearly white and including some fine ramose lines while the black points 

 are mostly confined to the brown bands. The last ventral segment is 

 twice the length of the preceding, produced at middle with shallow 

 indentations each side and blunt lobes laterally. Length 6 mm. 



This species has the vertex of fulvidorsum and nearly the color pattern 

 of apertus but the bands are strikingly transverse in which it is very 

 different from strobi. As compared with that species the second white 

 band is just in front of the apex of clavus instead of just behind it. 



The species is evidently rare as Ball described it from a single male 

 and but one female has been taken here. It was taken at margin of 

 woods which included pine and other conifers as well as a mixture of 

 other plants. 



Chlorotetfix galbaiiata Van Duzee. 



Chlorotetfix galbanata Van Duzee Psyche VI, 310. 

 Yellowish green or whitish green when fresh, fading to a dull straw 

 color, the head rounded in front, slightly produced, about one-fourth 

 longer at middle than next the eye, the last ventral segment of female 

 deeply cleft. Length 6 mm. 



