No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT I CICADELLIDAE. 117 



covering only basal two or three segments of abdomen; occasion- 

 ally reaching almost to tip of abdomen. Ovipositor in female 

 long, body gradually tapering and wedge-shaped. Color dull 

 green to brownish, vertex with a pair of large round black spots 

 extending over on to the front and a spot on middle of front 

 visible from above. Elytra often striped with brown, abdomen 

 marked with brownish spots and darker areas. Female segment 

 with lateral angles produced, between which the posterior border 

 is emarginate either side of a slightly produced broad median 

 lobe. Male valve strongly roundingly produced, plates short and 

 broad, divergent, bluntly pointed, notched on outer margins. 

 Length female, 4 mm. ; male, 3 mm. 



A rather abundant species in dry upland pastures and meadows 

 where the soil is well drained and short grasses are the principal 

 species. 



New Haven, 8 May, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



Driotura Osborn and Ball. 



Head short, almost parallel margined, obtuse, face short and 

 broad. Pronotum short, transversely striate posteriorly. Elytra 

 coarsely rugose, short, extending either to second abdominal seg- 

 ment only, or almost to end of abdomen. 



D. gammaroides (Van Duzee) Athysanus gammaroides Van 

 Duzee. (Fig. 10, 1.) 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., v, 209, 1894. 



Black, shining, usually unmarked, short, robust, elytra coarsely 

 rugose, usually extending only to second segment of abdomen. 

 Length 3-4 mm. 



Frequents waste areas where wild grasses are common, or often 

 pastures of several years standing. Common in many areas. 



Stonington, 16 May, 1906; New Haven, 13 May, 191 1 (B. H. W.) ; 31 

 July, 8 Aug., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; Killingworth, 31 May, 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Hamden, 10 Apr., 1921 (B. H. W.) ; Ellington, 25 Aug., 1920 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Orange, 21 July, 1905 (W. E. B.). 



Euscelis Brulle. 



Phrynomorphus Curtis. 



Athysanus Burmeister. 



Opsins Fieber. 



Body usually robust, vertex obtuse, often roundingly angled, 

 sometimes rounded and almost parallel margined, not forming a 

 definite margin with front. Elytra usually shorter or only slightly 

 exceeding abdomen, with one cross vein. 



Four very distinct groups any one of which might easily be con- 

 sidered as a genus are found here. So the species can scarcely 



