No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: CERCOPIDAE. 227 



width of last segment, obtusely notched to one-half basal width at 

 end of basal third, thence tapering to tip as cylindrical processes ; 

 black, sparsely clothed with white hairs. 



Color : Pale yellow ; stripe from anterior margin of tylus, 

 medially across vertex and pronotum, and along suture of elytra 

 to apex, stripe extending from eye across lateral margins of pro- 

 notum, following and fading out posteriorly along outer sector of 

 elytron, and sulcate anterior margin of vertex, dark brown to black. 



Distribution: Wisconsin (Medina and St. Croix Falls). 

 P. lineatus (Linnaeus). Grass spittle bug. (PL iv, 29.) (Fig. 

 20, 56-60.) 



Cicada lineata Linnaeus. Faun. Suec, 241, 888, 1761. 

 Cicada abbreviata Fabricius. Ent. Syst, iv, 36, 41, 1794. 

 Ptyclus basivitta Walker. List Horn. Brit. Mus., 722, 37, 1851. 



Small, narrow; head long, angulate; color pale yellow; costa 

 with a light stripe just within which is a black one, which becomes 

 indistinct on posterior half of elytron, black spot of variable extent 

 on suture posterior to apex of clavus. Length 4.5 mm. ; width 

 1.5-2 mm. 



Vertex, length equal to two-thirds width, and equal to length of 

 pronotum, nearly right-angled before ; tylus narrow, length 

 slightly greater than basal width, and greater than length of vertex 

 behind it ; ocelli equidistant from each other and from eyes ; pro- 

 notum with slight depressions in anterior portion of disc, anterior 

 margin broadly rounded, lateral margins less than distance between 

 ocelli ; elytra nearly parallel-margined. 



Genitalia : Female pygof ers in length equal to basal width, 

 narrowing apically, exceeded by ovipositor one-half their length. 

 Male plates, length three times width, broad at base, laterally 

 extended here to one-half width of last ventral segment, inner 

 margins attingent, outer margins slightly narrowing to beyond 

 middle, then widening to form an obtuse outward angle, thence 

 incurved to blunt tip. 



Color: Pale yellow; stripe extending from eye across lateral 

 margins of pronotum, following and fading out posteriorly along 

 outer sector of elytron, and a spot on suture posterior to apex of 

 clavus, sometimes continued around apex of elytra, black. 



Distribution: Specimens have been examined from the New 

 England States, New York, and Ontario and Quebec (Can.). It 

 has been reported from St. John, N. B. (Ball). This species, 

 as well as spumarius, is widely distributed in Europe, and a 

 number of specimens have been examined collected at "Edinburgh, 

 Scotland, 19 August, 1912." 



Scotland, 27 July, 1904, Rainbow, 30 July, 1914 (B. H. W.) ; Salisbury, 

 30 Aug., 1904 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 30 July, 1914 (Q. S. L.) ; 21 Aug., 

 1909, 29 May, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; 9 Nov., 1920 (P. G.) ; Branford, 2 July, 

 1918, Cornwall, 10 Aug., 1918 (B. H. W.). 



