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



This species may be distinguished from the next by the longer 

 and more nearly square vertex and longer and narrower front and 

 clypeus which are black with pale carinae. 



Dr. Ball has kindly called my attention to the fact that my 

 Cixius lepidus is the true stigmatus of Say, which is distributed 

 from the Mississippi Valley west to the Rocky Mountains. I have 

 therefore in my Check List renamed this species which has been 

 sufficiently characterized by me in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 

 xxxviii, page 408, 1906, and Proceedings Academy of Natural 

 Science of Philadelphia, Vol. lix, pages 488 and 490, 1907. So 

 far as I now know its range is confined to the northern states and 

 Canada. 



Stonington, 7 July, 1914 (I. W. D.) ; Middlebury, 20 June, 1916; 

 Hamden, 12 June, 1919 (M. P. Z.). 



C. coloepium Fitch. 



Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc, xvi, 452, 1856. 



Differs from miscellus in having the vertex short and distinctly 

 transverse, and the front and clypeus proportionately shorter and 

 broader. Here, however, the elytra are whitish-hyaline and more 

 or less maculated. This species occurs from Ontario and New 

 York west to Colorado. 



Scotland, 27 July, 1904, Hamden, 20 June, 1920, New Haven, 17 June, 

 1920 (B. H. W.). 



C. pini Fitch. 



Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., 45, 1851. 



Size and form of coloepium but readily distinguished by the 

 elytra having a faint fulvous tinge and wanting the spots usually 

 present in the allied species. This form lives on huckleberry 

 bushes in the northern states and Canada. 



Goshen, 4 July, 1919 (M. P. Z.) ; Cornwall, 18 July, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



Oecleus Stal. 



Stal established this genus for a group of the smaller Cixiids 

 having a more slender form and a linear deeply sulcate vertex 

 which is nearly or quite closed posteriorly. One species occurs in 

 Connecticut. 

 O. borealis Van Duzee. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, 495, 1912. 



Black or nearly so with the carinae pale and the mesonotum 

 lineate with fulvous and furnished with five carinae ; elytra hyaline, 

 the nervures fulvous and minutely dotted with fuscous. 



New Haven, 18 June, 1902 (E. J. S. M.) ; 5 July, 1920 (B. H. W.). 



Myndus Stal. 



Differs from Oecleus in having the vertex as broad as or 

 broader than the eyes and distinctly wider at base. Here the 

 mesonotum is tricarinate. 



