BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 7 I 



Chlorotettix viridia Van Duzee. 



Taken with the following species at Richmond and about 

 Kingston but in less abundance. Its slightly larger size, deeper 

 green color and different form of vertex and the distinct genital 

 characters will readily distinguish it. 



Chlorotettix minima Baker. (Can. Ent. xxx, p. 220, 1898.) 



Appleton, April 9th, two examples swept from rank grass 

 along the Siloah River; Troja, April 14th, one example swept 

 from grass by the railroad track. At Richmond I took it in 

 numbers from a springy spot in a hillside pasture on the 

 Alexander property and also took it at St. Margaret's Bay and 

 Kingston. These specimens agree perfectly with Baker's de- 

 scription and I cannot doubt their identity. The species is very 

 close to my galbanata and has almost the same form of vertex 

 and ultimate ventral segment in the female. It is however 

 considerably smaller and seems to be sufficiently distinct. 



Chlorotettix Tethys n. sp. 



Form of lusoria but much smaller. Vertex subangularly produced; 

 clypeus broad, of equal width throughout, sides rectilinear, cheeks narrow, 

 feebly angled beneath the eyes, forming a narrow margin around the ample 

 lorse. Pronotum with a rather pronounced callous parallel to the anterior 

 margin, the disk behind this distinctly transversely striate. Last ventral 

 segment of the female moderately long, with the outer angles rounded and a 

 little prominent, leaving a shallow median sinus on which rests a brownish 

 cloud. 



Color pale greenish luteous, more or less tinged with fulvous; the com- 

 missural margin at apex and some vague marks along the base of the apical 

 areoles faintly smoky. Disk of each elytron with two small brown specks, 

 one placed just beyond the transverse nervure near the base of the corium 

 and a smaller one before this lying against the claval suture; elytral nervures 

 pale; eyes, tip of the rostrum, tarsal claws and sides of the oviduct blackish. 

 In one example the anterior submargin of the pronotum shows a sinuated 

 darker vitta similar to that seen in certain species of Cicadula, and the basal 

 angles of the scutellum may be darker. Length 4 to 4^ mm. 



Described from three female examples; two taken at Kings- 

 ton, April nth, and Hope Bay April 13th, and a third taken on 

 the Island of Martinique, July 26th, by Mr. August Busk and 

 kindly sent to me for study by Prof. Ball. 



Jassus merus n. sp. 



Deep black. Vertex with the basal margin, an incomplete median 

 line, and the carinate sides opposite the inner angles of the eyes, pale; face 

 and deflected sides of the pronotum pale yellow, immaculate; antennal seta 

 brown; base of the eyes pale; legs whitish, the claws and upper surface of 



