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margin and a smaller one either side toward the eyes; just above 

 each of outer spots on vertex is a fine black point and a black line 

 extends over margin through antennal pit and follows suture of 

 face to clypeus. Length 5-5.5 mm. 



Feeds on grasses in pasture land during August and September. 

 T. decipiens Provancher. 



Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, 285, 1890. 



Greenish, elytra with iridescent tint and pale veins. Vertex very 

 broadly obtusely angled, two large black spots on margin at apex 

 and a smaller one on either side toward eye and above margin, 

 frontal sutures black. Female segment broadly excavated. 

 Length 4.5-5 mm. 



Common on coarse grasses and sedges in swampy areas of 

 pasture land during August and September. 

 T. smithi Van Duzee. 



Can. Ent., xxiv, 266, 1892. 



Quite long and slender. Vertex broadly rounded. Yellow, 

 with a broad black band on margin between eyes. Pronotum 

 greenish, mottled with yellow. Elytra dull greenish, hyaline, pos- 

 terior third smoky, veins distinctly visible. Female segment 

 roundingly produced, posterior margin shallowly emarginate. 

 Length 5 mm. 



A grass-feeding species found in open fields and especially on 

 Spartina michauxiana in swampy pastures. Abundant during 

 early summer and autumn. 



New Haven, 25 June, 1921 (B. H. W.). 

 T. fitchii Van Duzee. (Fig. 10, 4.) 



Ent. Amer., vi, 133, 1890. 



Yellow to pale brown, vertex obtusely angled, four black spots 

 just above margin, pronotum with about five longitudinal stripes. 

 Elytra pale brownish, veins yellow. Female segment rounded 

 either side to a median excavation forming a small notch either 

 side of a broad median tooth. Length 4.5 mm. 



Very common in swamps, wet meadows and pastures on coarse 

 grasses throughout the summer. 



New Haven, 27 July, 3 Oct., 4 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; North Haven, 

 6 Aug., 1922 (B. H. W.) ; East Haven, 29 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Hamden, 

 25 Sept., 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Madison, 24 Sept., 1922 (B. H W.). 



T. nigrifrons (Forbes). Cicadula nigrifrons Forbes. 7". per- 

 punctata Van Duzee. 



Rept. 111. St. Ent, xiv, 67, 1884. 



Vertex obtusely angled, yellow with a row of six black spots 

 above margin continuing to extend over margin to front and before 

 the eyes. Face usually black by coalescing arcs. Elytra tinged 

 with green, often smoky. Length 5 mm. 



Very abundant on grasses apparently more so in wet areas, but 



