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Acocephalus flavostriatus Donov. 



A. flavostriatus Donov. Brit. Ins. 1799 

 A. rivularis Germar. Mag. Ent. 182 1. p. 89 

 A. flavostrigatus Sign. Essai sur le Jassides, p. 39 

 ^I took one specimen at Eagle Bridge, Aug. 13, 1904, and Mr- 

 Van Duzee has sent me a specimen which he secured at Phoenicia, 

 Aug. 25, 1904. 



It is a European species not hitherto recorded for America 

 though I have a specimen from Dr C. M. Weed, collected at Wood- 

 stock Vt. 



Acocephalus albifrons Linn. 



Acocephalus albifrons Linn. 



Tettigonia mixta Say. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Jour. 1825 4-^4i- 

 reprinted m Compl. Wr. 2 : 258; Walker, Homop. 1852. 4:1157 (men- 

 tion) 



Acocephalus mixtus Van Duzee. Psyche, 1890. 5:390; South- 

 wick, Science. 1892. 19:318 



This is another species distributed in both the old and new 

 world but which has stood under separate names for the two 

 regions. 



It is quite dark and nearly black for the female, the male lighter 

 brown with whitish or transparent spots in the elytra. 



It has been recorded for New York city by Southwick and 

 Buffalo by Van Duzee and collected at Salem [H. O.] Hamburg 

 and Phoenicia [Van Duzee] and Cold Spring Harbor [Barber]. 



Genus xestocephalus Van Duzee 

 Xestocephalus pulicarius Van Duzee 



Xestocephalus pulicarius Van Duzee. Buf . Soc. Nat Sci 

 Bui. 5. 1894. p. 215. 



Aside from the localities mentioned in the original description, 

 Buffalo and New York city, this species has been collected at 

 Jamaica and Phoenicia, in August. 



It is doubtless generally distributed over the State in suitable 

 localities where its food plant, Carex vulpinoidea, is 

 present. 



Xestocephalus fulvocapitatus Van Duzee 



Xestocephalus fulvocapitatus Van Duzee. Buf. Soc. Nat. 

 Sci. Bui. 5. 1894. p. 25 



Van Duzee in his description records this species for Lancaster. 

 " In company with the preceding (pulicarius) of which it 

 may prove a variety." 



Genus parabolocratus Fieb. 



Parabolocratus viridis Uhler 



Glossocratus viridis Uhler. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Sur. Bui. 3. 

 1877. p. 462 



Parabolocratus viridis Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist. 1884.2:247; 

 Van Duzee, Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci. Bui. 5, p. 198 



Common over wide extent of United States. Recorded for 

 vicinity of Buffalo and Jamaica [Van Duzee]. 



