508 HEMIPTEROEOGICAL GLEANINGS 



Philaenus spumarius Auet. 



According to Kirkaldy Dr. Horvath has shown that the 

 name spumarius must replace Aphrophora alni Fallen and the 

 species commonly known as spumarius must be called leucoph- 

 thalma Linn, but as I have not seen Horvath's paper and this 

 change does not seem to have been accepted by any of the 

 recent European entomoligists it seems best to retain the old 

 nomenclature, for the present at least. 



I have been unable to find a mention of Cicada cenotherce 

 Scopoli (Ent. Carniola, page 114, 1763), but it appears to be 

 near Philcenus spumarius variety lineatus Fabr. The a:nother<z 

 of Germar (Mag. d'Ent. iv, page S3, 1821) is a synonym of 

 variety pallidas Zett. of this species. 



Genus Clastoptera Germar. 

 Dr. Ball's paper on this genus (Proc. Iowa Acad. Science, 

 in, pages 182 to 194, 1895) is very useful and complete but I 

 cannot accept his synonomy in all cases. Under obtusa Say he 

 includes the true achatina Germ, as a variety of his subspecies 

 obtusa. It may be distinguished by being fulvous anteriorly 

 and fuscous posteriorly with a whitish band across the clypeus. 

 The variety he calls achatina, as I know from a specimen 

 determined by him, is mostly fuscous with the vertex and 

 anterior margin of the pronotum narrowly fulvous, the former 

 with a dark line. I propose the name variety tristis for 

 this form. 



He also includes testacea and pint Fitch as varieties of his 

 subspecies osborni Gill. & Baker. I have seen nothing that 

 agrees with Fitch's description of his testacea but his pini is 

 certainly the black variety of proteus named nigra by Ball. 

 Fitch describes//;// as shining black and but 0.14 inch in length 

 neither of which will apply to any variety of obtusa. I prefer 

 to call all these "subspecies" simple varieties. 



Clastoptera lineaticollis Stal. 



This is certainly a distinct species and not a variety of 

 obtusa Say as stated by Dr. Ball. 



Clastoptera xanthocephala var. glauca n. var. 



There are two distinct and fairly constant varieties of this 

 species found throughout the southern states. Dr. Ball lists 

 them as varieties "a" and mt b". The former is typical xantho- 

 cephala Germ, while the latter is a pale glaucus or greyish form 

 for which I now propose the above varietal name. 



