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vertex and front next to vertex more broadly banded with yellow, 

 or yellow bands wanting, entirely black above, legs darker. 

 Broadly hyaline margin of elytra interrupted behind middle of 

 clavus with darker. 



Distribution : Specimens have been examined from Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, District of 

 Columbia, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Ontario and Quebec (Can.). It 

 has been reported from West Virginia and Pennsylvania (Ball). 



Brookfield, 27 July, ? (E. L. D.). 

 C. xanthocephala Germar. (Fig. 20, 74-77.) 



Clastoptera xanthocephala Germar. Zeit. fur die Ento., 1-189, 1839. 



Small ; size and coloration relatively constant ; dark brown or 

 black above varying to glaucus, usually a small white spot on center 

 of costa; front moderately inflated, disc broadly convex, light 

 above, transversely marked with a broad light band. Length 

 2.5-3.5 mm - '■> width 1.5-2.5 mm. 



Vertex not strongly depressed, suture with front indistinct; 

 ocelli equidistant from eyes and each other ; front with disc more 

 broadly convex than in proteus, moderately inflated ; pronotum 

 with a large number of fine indistinct transverse wrinkles, anterior 

 margin narrowly rounded and considerably produced between the 

 eyes ; hemelytra less convex than in proteus, strongly impunctured, 

 very sparsely pubescent, margins narrowly rounding, divergent to 

 apical third, thence abruptly cut off to apex, forming a lateral 

 obtuse angle. 



Color: Typical form dark brown or black above, a small white 

 spot on center of costal margin ; anterior margin of vertex lighter ; 

 front above light, transversely marked with interrupted brown 

 bands, a broad band below these and the greater portion of clypeus 

 dark brown to black, the included portions of front and clypeus, 

 and lorae, margin of anterior coxal fossae, yellow ; abdomen black, 

 legs varying light brown to black, spurs and spines tipped with 

 black. 

 C. xanthocephala var. glauca Van Duzee. 



Pale glaucus or grayish above. 



Distribution: Specimens have been examined from Massa- 

 chusetts, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Maryland, District of Columbia, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, 

 Indian Territory, Arizona, Arkansas, and Maine. It has been 

 reported from Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Iowa (Ball). 

 C. obtusa (Say). Alder spittle bug. (Fig. 20, 78-81.) 



Cercopis obtusa Say. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 339, 1825. 



Clastoptera achatina Germar. Zeitschr fur die Ent, i, 187, 1839. 



Clastoptera testacea Fitch. Ninth Rep. St. Ent. N. Y., 393, 1851. 



Clastoptera obtusa Ball. Proc. la. Acad. Sci., vol. iii, 188-91, 1895. 



Clastoptera obtusa Ball. Subsp. i. obtusa Ball. 



Large, oblongate; color varying brown, marked with light 



