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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



New Haven, 22, Sept., 1918 (F. H. L.) ; 3 Oct., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Wil- 

 ton, 19 Oct., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Cornwall, 18 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Hamden, 25 Sept., 1921 (B. H. W.) ; North Haven, 4 Sept., 1921 

 (B. H. W.) ; East Haven, 29 July, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



D. noveboracensis (Fitch). Aulacizes noveboracensis Fitch. 



Tettigonia prasina Walker. 



Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., 56, 185 1. 



Vertex shorter than basal width, obtuse, a very heavy black spot 

 either side of apex, and somewhat smaller one on margin just 

 before either eye ; lines and other markings rather faint. Length 

 8 mm. 



Common in New England in marshy meadows. 



Salisbury, 30 Aug., 1904 (W. E. B.) ; Cheshire, 8 July, 1904 (H. L. V.) ; 

 Colebrook, 21 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; Hamden, 17 July. 1920; New Haven. 

 17, 18, 27 July, 1920; North Branford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Corn- 

 wall, 18 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Guilford, 13 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 North Haven, 6 Aug., 1922 (B. H. W.) ; Thompson, 19 July, 1921 

 (B. H. W.). 



Evacanthus LePeletier and Serville. 



Eiicanthus Burmeister. 



Vertex very blunt, with a central longitudinal keel, and a branch 

 of this each side from apex to eye. Ocelli just above this keel, 

 close margin and distant from eyes. Front inflated, longitudinally 

 carinate. Elytra short, pubescent above. 



E. acuminatus (Fabricius). Cicada acummatus Fabricius. 

 Cicada interstincta Fallen ; Amhlycephaliis germari Curtis ; 

 Amhlycephalus orbitalis Fitch. 



Ent. Syst, iv, 36, 1794. 



A robust species with very blunt head and rather short elytra, 

 not covering abdomen in female. Vertex with median carina and 

 one from apex to either eye. Pronotum short, pubescent. Elytra 

 blackish or dark brown with white stripes. Sparse pubescence 

 along nervures. Length 5.5-6.5 mm. 



Occurs sparingly in woodland on low plants. Often found 

 resting on old logs in thick woods. 



Subfamily Gyponinae. 



Scarides Amyot and Serville. 



To this subfamily belong those forms with the ocelli on the disc 

 of vertex and in which the body is decidely dorso-ventrally flat- 

 tened. Usually broad and flat. 



Key to Genera. 



I. Head more or less flattened but not thin or foliaceous, margin of 

 vertex very narrowly sharp, elytra not perpendicular at tips. 



(Fig. 5, 2.) ;:•••••/•, ; ^ 



Head flat, foliaceous, margin broadly thin and sharp, elytra angu- 

 larly pointed, perpendicular at tips Xerophloea, p. 84 



