No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: FULGORIDAE. 37 



B. tristis Stal. 



Berl. Ent. Zeit, vi, 309, 1862. 



]\Iore bluish or greenish black, with the dorsal carina of the 

 head scarcely paler. It has the same distribution as the preceding 

 and should be found in Connecticut. 



Brookfield, 2^ July, E. L. Dickerson. 



Aphelonema Uhler. 



Short thick-set little insects with a square head and nearly ver- 

 tical front, marked on the sides of the head, thorax and abdomen 

 with pitted granules ; the front oval and truncated at base. 



Key to Species. 



Whitish, lineate with black ; front ovate histrionica 



Testaceous, nearly immaculate ; front nearly circular simplex 



A. histrionica (Stal). 



Berl. Ent. Zelt., vi, 310, 1862. 



Readily distinguished by two parallel dorsal lines and broader 

 lateral vittae on the abdomen; the sides of the face, pro- and 

 mesonotum are black with the carinae and granules pale. Massa- 

 chusetts westward and doubtless in Connecticut. 

 A. simplex Uhler. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., i, 356, 1876. 



Nearly uniformly soiled- or yellowish-testaceous. Recorded 

 from New Jersey westward. 



Plainville, 2 Sept., 1921 (B. H. W.). 



Tribe ISSINI. 



But one genus of this tribe has a distribution that would be likely 

 to bring it into Connecticut. 



Thionia Stal. 



Stout oblong insects with wings well developed ; elytra oblong 

 with strong veins, the front hardly longer than wide, sometimes 

 with three distinct discal carinae. 



Key to Species. 



1. Pale greenish-testaceous; elytra parallel, semivitreous, the longi- 



tudinal veins strong and fuscous, the transverse very faint ; 



front with but one discal carina . . . : simplex 



More infuscated and maculated; elytra broad with distinct cross- 

 veins 2 



2. Elytra brown, dotted with round fuscous points, the veins fuscous ; 



face with a pale band crossing the base of the clypeus elliptica 



Elytra more thickened and distinctly maculated, the marks usually 

 forming a transverse band before the middle ; disk of the front 

 distinctly tricarinate bullata 



