122 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. 



E. Stria tulus (Fallen). Cicada striatulus Fallen. Jassus plu- 

 tonius Uhler. Athysanus vaccinii Osborn and Ball. 



Hemip. Suec, Cicad., 45, 1826. 



Dark brown without tawny tinge, legs dark in color, vertex with 

 three dark interrupted transverse lines between eyes. Length 

 4-4.5 mm. 



A common form in bogs on blueberry and allied plants in August 

 and September. 



New Haven, 4 July, 1921 ; Portland, 25 July, 1920 (B. H. W.). 

 E. vaccinii (Van Duzee). 



Ent. Amer., vi, 135, 1890. 



Perhaps not distinct from striatulus and at least quite similar in 

 form and coloration. Paler and with fewer dark markings, ohve 

 testaceous tinged with tawny, all the tibia orange. Length 

 4-4.5 mm. 



Found with the preceding in boggy areas occurring on blueberry. 



New Haven, 4 July, 1920, 4 July, 1921 (B. H. W.). Sweet fern. 

 E. elongatus (Osborn). Athysanus elongatus Osborn. 



Me. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bull. 238, 1915. 



Narrow, black with yellow markings. Vertex obtusely angled, 

 black with basal spots and three on disc, yellow. Frontal arcs on 

 face, spots on anterior margin of pronotum and outer angles of 

 scutellum yellow. Elytra yellowish hyaline, veins fuscous 

 margined. Length 3.25-4 mm. 



Often common in low pasture land on grasses during July and 

 August. 



E. curtisii (Fitch). Amblycephalus curtisii Fitch. Jassus nerva- 

 tus Provancher. (PL iii, 9.) 



Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., 61, 185 1. 



Vertex angled, greenish yellow with two large black spots on 

 disc and an irregular one at apex black. Anterior half of prono- 

 tum and a narrow posterior margin, black. Elytra dark fuscous, 

 margins and nervures yellow. Length 3-3.5 mm. 



Occurs in good numbers in grassy pastures and meadows. 



Thompson, 11 July, 1905, Putnam, 12 July, 1905 (H. L. V.) ; New 

 Haven, 22 Sept., 1918 (F. H. L., D. M. D.), 20 June, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Branford, 21 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Cornwall, 22 Oct., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Orange, 22 June, 1920, Waterbury, 15 Oct., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; North Bran- 

 ford, 12 June, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



Eutettix Van Duzee. 



Vertex rather short and sloping, distinctly transversely 

 impressed, elytra rather broad with one cross nervure between the 

 sectors. Ramose pigment lines when present, aggregated into 

 oblique bands or saddle areas. Usually conspicuously and often 

 brightly colored. 



