INSECTS AFFECTING PARK AND WOODLAND TREES 687 



a broad, clear, white margin outwardly, broken by black behind the middle 

 and with a shining black dot near the tip. Legs and ventral surface yellow. 



The young o£-~this little species occur on pines about June i, in 

 this State. They are enveloped in frothy masses among the terminals, 

 and about this time they are J/£ inch in length, and have 

 a small shiny black head and thorax, with the body 

 broad, flattened, and flesh color, or sometimes brick-red, as 

 described by Miss Wolsey, of Matteawan. 



Obtuse clastoptera, Clastoptera obtusa Say. 

 This little spittle irvsect occurred in small numbers on hard 

 pine at Karner, the young being located at the base of 

 leaf petioles. Adults were taken from June 13 to 19. They F 'g- 2 ° 6 clastoptera 



r ^obtusa, enlarged 



are from y% to 3/ l6 inches long and irregularly marked with (original) 



brown, yellowish brown and yellowish white. It is remarkable for its 



obtuse form. 



Stictocephala inermis Fabr. 



A greenish brown leaf hopper about s /,6 inch long, occurs on hard pine in midsummer. 



This species has somewhat the shape of a beechnut and is not marked 

 by any excessively developed processes. It was present in small numbers 

 on hard pine during July 1901. This tree hopper probably has a wide 

 distribution as it has been recorded from a number of eastern and several 

 western States. 



Dichrooscytus rufipennis Fall. 



A small, active, rather slender plant bug about }^ inch long with yellowish head and 

 prothorax and yellowish red wing covers occurs on hard pine in midsummer. 



This is a small, active, rather slender plant bug, measuring about 

 *4 inch in length. The head and prothorax are yellowish and the yellowish 

 red wing covers are bordered by the same. This species was met with by 

 the writer in small numbers on hard pine at Karner in 1901. It is quite 

 agile and but few specimens were captured, the numbers and dates being 

 as follows : one on June 13, two on the 26th and two July 8. The species 

 has been listed from New Jersey by Dr Smith and Douglas & Scott 1 



'1865 British Hemiptera, p. 47S. 



