REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I904 51I 



Oyster Bay, Jamaica and Staten Island, mostly adults but a few 

 larvae during 9th to 226. of August. Buffalo, "especially on black- 

 berry bushes" [Van Duzee]. 



One of the most beautiful of the Tettigonids, having brilliant 

 yellow color with bright red and blue or green stripes. An abun- 

 dant species over ^the entire eastern United States and occurring 

 on a variety of forest plants. The larvae are yellow with dark 

 wing pads and found in July and August. 



DRAECULACEPHALA Ball 



Draeculacephala mollipes Say 



Tettigonia mollipes Say. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. 1831. 



6: 312 

 Tettigonia innotata Walk. Homop. 185 1. 3: 770 

 Tettigonia antica Walk. Homop. 1851. 3: 771 

 Tettigonia producta Walk. Homop. 185 1. 3: 772 

 Tettigonia acuta Walk. Homop. 1851. 3: 773 

 Acopsis viridis Prov. Nat. Can. 1872. p. 352 

 Diedrocephala mollipes Osbom & Ball. la. Acad. Sci Proc 



1897. 4: 176 

 Tettigonia mollipes Fowl. Biol. Homop. 1000. 2: 27^ d1 



18, fig. 15 "^ ^ '^' ^' 



Aulacizes lineata Fitch. Mss. 

 Draeculacephala mollipes Ball. la. Acad. Sci. Proc. 8 



Hamburg, Buffalo [Van Duzee], New York [Fitch], New York 

 city [Bueno], Albany Karner, Poughkeepsie [N. Y. State Mus.], 

 Ithaca [Cornell Univ.], Phoenicia [Van Duzee]. 



I took it at Hamburg, Nassau, Eagle Bridge, Salem, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Jamaica and Staten Island and it may be expected in all 

 parts of the State. 



An almost imiversal species, occurring in grasses and often in 

 such numbers as to be an undoubted source of injury. 



Draeculacephala angulifera Walk. 



Tettigonia angulifera Walk. Homop. 3:771 

 Diedrocephala angulifera Van Duzee. Ent. News. 5:156 

 Diedrocephala sp. Southwick. Science. 19:318 

 Draeculacephala angulifera Ball. la. Acad. Sci. Proc. 8 : 69 

 Aside from records of "New York" given by both Van Duzee 

 and the record by Mr Southwick, I know of no records for the 

 State. 



The species is larger than mollipes with a shorter, blunter 

 vertex. 



Draeculacephala novaeboracensis Fitch 



Aulacizes novaeboracensis Fitch. Homop. N.Y. State 



Cab. 1851. p. 56 

 Tettigonia prasina Walk. Homop. 1851. 3:768 

 Diedrocephala mollipes Prov. Pet. Faune Ent. Can.. 1889. 



3: 266 



Diedrocephala novaeboracensis, Osbom . & Ball. la. 

 Acad. Sci. Proc. 1897. 4:177, 189 

 Keene Valley, Lake Placid, Piseco lake, Nassau and Cold Spring 

 Harbor. 



I found it abundant at Salem in low sedgy localities and these 

 •specimens agreed perfectly with the Fitch specimens. 

 The types are well preserved. 



