Io8 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



A grass-feeding species common in the eastern and southern 

 states. 



New Haven, 7, 8, ii, 20 July, 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 D. pictus Osborn. (Fig. 11, 5.) 



Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., x, 165, 1907. 



AlHed to D. reflexus, vertex produced, acutely angled, a little 

 longer on middle than width between eyes. Pronotum with four 

 broad longitudinal dark stripes. Basal half of face black. Elytra 

 whitish, veins pale, broadly dark margined. Female segment 

 slightly concave, a rounded short median tooth with a black line 

 either side. Male plates rather long and narrowed to rounded 

 tips. Length 3.5 mm. 



Common throughout the summer on grasses of the Aristida 

 type in New York and Pennsylvania. It is perhaps more widely 

 distributed. 



New Haven, 30 Oct., 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 D. configuratus Uhler. (Fig. 4, i, 2, 3, 4.) (PL iii, 4.) 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 511, 1879. 



Vertex broader between eyes than median length, bluntly angled, 

 a distinct white cross on the disc in well-marked specimens. Pro- 

 notum pale with longitudinal dark stripes. Elytra with veins 

 white, often dark margined and spotted with fuscous. Female 

 segment medially produced in a long attenuated bifid black process, 

 male plates long, obliquely truncate. Length 4.5-5 mm. 



A very common species on grasses in pastures, meadows and 

 swampy areas throughout New England during July, August and 

 September. 



New Haven, i June, 1911 (B. H. W.) ; 10 June, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 4 

 July, 1920, 21 May, 16 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Hamden, 20 June, 1920 

 (B. H. W.) ; Portland, 25 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Madison, 24 Sept., 1922 

 (B. H. W.) ; Cornwall, 5 June, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



D. sayi (Fitch). Amblycephalus sayi Fitch. (PL iii, 2.) 



Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., 61, 1851. 



Rather short, vertex rather strongly angled, tip, two concentric 

 bands and a median longitudinal stripe pale, forming dark reddish 

 brown spots between them. Pronotum brownish with pale longi- 

 tudinal stripes. Elytra short and broad at apex, often not exceed- 

 ing abdomen, brownish, veins white, a dark band across middle 

 and another across apex of elytra. Female segment broadly con- 

 cavely rounded. Male plates rather long and tapered to blunt tips. 

 Length 3.5 mm. 



A very abundant meadow species of economic importance 

 throughout the northern states from May to October. It often 

 feeds on the tall grasses and is able to live under a variety of 

 conditions. 



New Haven, 31 Oct., 1903 (H. L. V.) ; 20 Aug., 1909, 26 June, 1910, 30 

 May. 1911 (B. H. W.) ; 22 Sept., 1918 (F. H. L.) ; 28 June, 11, 18 July, 



