184 FLORIDA HEMIPTERA. 



Family Nepidse. 



167. Benacus griseus Say. 



Abundant about the electric lights at Clearwater. 



168. Amorgius Uhleri Montondon. 



With the preceding and equally abundant. 



Suborder Homoptera. 



Family Cicadida?. 



169. Cicada viridifascia Walker. 



A pretty little species closely resembling the canicidaris 

 group from the northern states. I took several males from a 

 tall bunch grass growing along the shore at the southern end 

 of Estero Island. The day was cool and rainy and these insects 

 were not at all active and were easily traced by their short, 

 hoarse note. They vary considerable in the extent of the black 

 markings above but the broad green band on the hind margin 

 of the pronotum is characteristic. Dr. Distant places Cicada 

 sordidata Uhler as a synonym of this species although the hind 

 margin of the pronotum is described as piceous in that species. 



170. Cicada hieroglyphica Say. 



Apparently common throughout the southern portion of 

 Florida. I was unable to capture any in the pine woods if in- 

 deed they live there but in the clearings along the Estero River 

 they were abundant on the low oak bushes. They were not 

 particularly shy and I was able to approach sometimes very 

 close to them before they would stop their shrill and long con- 

 tinued notes. As in the case of the preceding species I took 

 only males. I did not feel that I could spare the time to hunt 

 for the silent females among the dense foliage of the oak bushes. 



171. Melampsalta parvula Say. 



One tiny male was beaten from a small tree of a broad- 

 leaved oak at Tampa. This specimen made a surprisingly loud 

 noise for so small an insect. It is pale green, almost immac- 

 ulate, and measures scarcely 12mm. to the tip of the closed 

 elytra. 



