No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: CICADELLIDAE. 1 03 



eyes, yellowish with three pale areas at apex, and often brownish 

 vermiculate markings. Bright fulvous, elytra opaque, with few 

 pale areolar spots, all located at apex, costal nervures dark brown. 

 Face yellowish not darkened at sides. Length 4.5-5 mm. 



Occurs on shrubs and blueberry. Described from Oyster Bay, 

 N. Y., and its range of distribution is quite large, including a part 

 of New England. 



New Haven, 2.2, Sept., 1918 (F. H. L.) ; 31 July, 5 Aug., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Cornwall, 18 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Hamden, 20 Aug., 1922 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Portland, 24 July, 192 1 (B. H. W.). 



P. frontalis Van Duzee. (Fig. 9, 7.) 



Can. Ent, xxii, 112, 1890. 



Vertex short and blunt, almost one-half longer than basal width, 

 a rather indefinite light transverse vitta before eyes. Pronotum 

 with distinct longitudinal white vittae, elytra heavily inscribed with 

 black and with numerous large white oval spots. Face yellow 

 heavily infuscated at sides. Length 3.5-4 mm. 



A common species in damp meadows and a pest of grasses and 

 herbaceous plants. It often occurs with other species of the genus 

 in boggy areas. Abundant throughout the summer. 



New Haven, 6 July, 1904 (P. L. B.) ; 4, 8, 11, 20, 31 July, 3 Oct., 1920 

 (B. H. W.) ; West Haven, 27 June, 1905; Rockville, 23 Aug., 1905 

 (H. L. V.) ; Hamden, 30 June, 1913 (B. H. W.) ; 20 June, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Branford, 21 July, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; East Hartford, 16 Sept., 1920 

 (B. H. W.) ; Orange, 15 Sept., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Westbrook, 21 Sept., 

 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Killingworth, 27 June, 1920 (W. E. B.). 



*P. frontalis var. nigrifrons DeLong, n. var. 



Resembles frontalis but with vertex a little more bluntly angled. 



Color: Uniform black with few pale markings. Face, clypeus 

 and lorae shining black, margin of vertex and the V-shaped line 

 just beneath, white. Vertex with a spot either side of apex and 

 another just back of this, white. Elytra uniform black marked 

 only by two small areolar spots along claval suture, four on base 

 of apical and three on apex of anteapical cells, white. 



Genitalia : Male valve and plates as in frontalis. 



A single male specimen collected at West Rock, New Haven, 

 September 22, 191 8, by the author and specimens collected at New 

 Haven, 9 July, 1921 (B. H. W.) are at hand, and seem after 

 careful study to be a varietal form because of the unique coloration 

 and shining black face. 

 P. magdalensis Provancher. P. obscurus Osborn. 



Pet. Faune Ent. Can., iii, 275, 1889. 



Resembling acutns in size and form, vertex rather blunt, less 

 than twice as long as width between eyes, marked with irregular 

 pale transverse vittae. Pronotum with longitudinal vittae, elytra 

 brownish, inscribed and irrorate with dark brown, and with 

 numerous white areolar spots. Face brown, irrorate with white. 

 Length 5 mm. 



