No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: CICADELLIDAE. 1 27 



14. Entire dorsal surface rather evenly and thickly irrorate with small 



round black dots. A broad black band on base of face 



atropunctatus n. sp. 

 Dorsal surface marked with brownish ramose pigment lines 15 



15. Vertex thin at margin, not foliaceous and only moderately pro- 



duced. Vertex sloping, not' concave. (Fig. 12, 3b.) 16 



Vertex thin and foliaceous, strongly produced, margin slightly up- 

 turned, forming a slight concavity ramosus 



16. Length 8-8.5 mm. Elytra distinctly narrowed apically nebulosus 



Length 7-7.5 mm. Elytra slightly narrowed apically solidaginis 



P. majestus Osborn and Ball. 



Proc. la. Acad. Sci., iv, 229, 1897. 



Very large and broad, resembling a Gypona, chestnut-brown. 

 Head narrow, very slightly produced, a dark band between the eyes, 

 often interrupted, and two spots before it and above apex, black. 

 Anterior portion of pronotum with dark vermiculate markings. 

 Elytra heavily inscribed with brown pigment lines. Length 

 9-10 mm. 



Lives on tall grasses in thickets or rather densely shaded areas, 

 and is a species difficult to capture because of its quick movements. 



Lyme, 201 Aug., 1910; New Canaan, 14 Sept., 191 1, Hamden, 6 Aug., 1922 

 (B. H. W.). 



P. excultus (Uhler). Jassus excultus Uhler. 



Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 467, 1877. 



A narrow-headed form with vertex, pronotum and scutellum 

 yellowish, a pair of small brown spots at base of vertex, and a pair 

 of curved spots behind them on pronotum just back of margin. 

 Elytra very closely inscribed with dark brown. Three lighter 

 areas along suture indicating a trilobate spot. Female segment 

 broadly roundingly excavated at center. Length 7 mm. 



On grasses usually in open fields. Primarily a southern form, 

 but may occur in restricted northern areas. 

 P. decorus Osborn and Ball. (Fig. 12, 1.) 



Proc. la. Acad. Sci., iv, 230, 1897. 



A very short, broad, narrow-headed species. Vertex with two 

 rather indefinite dark areas at tip and posterior half brownish. 

 The elytra along scutellum and three spots along suture pale. 

 Elytra not closely inscribed and with several pale areas, especially 

 along costa. Length 6 mm. 



On grasses, usually in wooded areas. A rather common but 

 not abundant species throughout New England, May, June, July 

 and September. 

 P. incisus Van Duzee. 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xix, 73, 1892. 



Elytra brown, vertex, pronotum and scutellum yellow, mottled 

 with brown. Vertex a little longer on middle than next eye. 

 Female segment roundingly triangulate with a rather broad deep 

 notch at middle of hind margin. Length 6-6.5 mm - 



