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



Publilia Stal. 



A genus near Entylia but showing a much less elevated crest 

 and a much weaker median notch. Some of the forms are merely 

 depressed in the center and the prothorax is only slightly 

 compressed. 

 P. concava (Say). 



1824. Mcmbracis concava Say. Narr. Long's Exp., App. ii. 311. 



1835. Entylia concava Germar. Silk Rev., iii. 249. 



1866. Publilia concava Stal. Analecta Hem., 388. 



1869. Cercsa concava Rathvon. Momb. Hist. Lane. Co. Pa., 551. 



1894. Publilia nigridorsum Goding. Cat. Memb. N. A., 399. 



1903. Publilia vittata Buckton. Mon. Memb., 185. PI. 39, fig. 6. 



Extremely abundant. A grass and shrub inhabiting species 

 usually taken in sweeping. According to Mr. Woodruff, the 

 common host about Litchfield is alder. In New York it seems to 

 be most abundant on goldenrod. 



The species may be distinguished from Entylia bactriana, the 

 only other species in the State with which it is likely to be con- 

 fused, by the slight dorsal depression and the general rounded 

 shape of the pronotum. The color varies from gray to black and 

 the pronotum is irregularly ridged and deeply punctate. The 

 tegmina are largely covered by the pronotum. 



Hosts : Goldenrod, skunk-cabbage, New England aster, worm- 

 wood, alder. 



Branford, 28 June, 1905 (H. W. W.) ; Meriden, 3 June, 1910, Hamden, 

 14 June, 1911 (W. E. B.) ; North Branford, 8 June, 1912 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Portland, 5 June, 1914, Middlebury, 31 May, 1916, Ansonia, 26 May, 1918 

 (M. P. Z.) ; Litchfield. May to July (L. B."\V.). 



Family CERCOPIDAE.* 

 By Louis Agassiz Stearns, M.Sc. 



The insects known under variously applied descriptive names as 

 cuckoo-spit, spittle insects, frog-hoppers and leaf-hoppers, together 

 with the Cicadellidae (Jassoidea) and Fulgoridae, and belonging 

 to the family Cercopidae, are of world-wide distribution. 

 Although members are recorded for every Zoological Subregion, 

 except the Hawaiian, the "headquarters" of this family is in 

 Central and South x\merica and in the Oriental Region and the 

 Malayan portion of the Australian. Comparatively few repre- 

 sentatives are known to occur in the Nearctic Region. This paper 

 recognizes six genera (Monecphora, Aphrophora, Lepyronia, 

 Philaenus, Philaronia and Clastoptcra), comprising twenty-two 

 species, as included within the Nearctic fauna. Two varieties 

 (infuscatus and pallidus) of one species (Philaroriia bilineata 

 Say) are described herein as new. 



* This paper, in substantially its present form, was submitted to fulfill the 

 thesis requirement of a M.Sc. degree, at the Ohio State University, 

 Columbus. Ohio, June, 1917. 



