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close to the plants and disturbing the plants so as to make the hoppers 

 jump up against the shield where they will be caught in the sticky 

 maJterial. Such an apparatus mounted on wheels and drawn through 

 nursery rows has been recoimmended for freeing nursery stock from 

 the species and some similar adjustment may be made for potatoes or 

 beans in field rows. 



Eupteryx nigra O shorn. 



Eupteryx nigra Osborn. Rept. N. Y. State Entomologist, XX, 543. 



Above black except anterior border of vertex and costal border of 

 elytra ; below greenish white except pygofers which are smoky black. 

 Length 3.75 mm. 



Collected on ferns at Orono July 29th, Aug. 5th, Bar Harbor Aug. 31st, 

 July 10, 1914. 



These specimens agree very closely with the description and types 

 which were females but a male taken July 29th differs in the darker 

 front, the absence of white costa and the dark color of the abdominal 

 segments, the margins only being white. 



The females agree in all details except that the central abdominal 

 segments have dusky bands. The original description was based on a 

 specimen taken at Jamaica, Long Island and one from Columbus, Ohio, 

 so the present records considerably extend the range of the species. 

 The species is of no particular economic importance but is of interest 

 as one of the few species that occur on ferns. 



Eupteryx flai'oscuta Gillette. 



Eupteryx flavoscuta Gillette. Proc. U. S. Nat'l Mus. XX, 749 (1898). 



Yellow beneath and suffused with smoky black above the front bor- 

 der of the vertex, a quadrangular spot on central base of pronotum and 

 the scutellum, border of coista at center and a more or less extended 

 spot on commissure, yellow. Length 3 mm. 



Our specimens were collected at Orono, July 8th, Aug. 5th, and at 

 Mt. Katahdin Aug. 20-22nd, Kineo, Aug. 17th. They agree well with 

 Gillette's description but most of our specimens are darker above and 

 the yellow spots on costa and clavus would seem to be larger and more 

 brightly colored. They occur on ferms and usually in very small num- 

 bers. 



Typhlocyba obliqua Say. 



Tettigonia obliqua Say. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. IV, 342, 1825. 



Erythroneura obliqua Fitch. Homop. State Cab. N. Y., p. 63, 185 1. 



Typhlocyba obliqua Gillette. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. XX. 



Light yellow with two distinct oblique red stripes on the elytra fol- 

 lowing the line of the claval suture, one on the clavus and the other 

 on the disk of the corium. Length 3.5 mm. 



