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SOME CUBAN CICADID.E, CERCOPID.E AND 
MEMBRACIDAE 
By J. G. Myers. 1 
The material on which the present notes are based was col- 
lected largely during parts of February, March and April, 1925, 
while the writer enjoyed the privilege of an Atkins Fellowship at 
the Soledad Laboratory. The chief species of importance to 
cane culture were dealt with in an earlier paper. 2 For some of 
the specimens I am indebted to Dr. George Salt, who took them 
after my departure. The Cicadidse, Cercopidse, and Membracidae 
are now considered, while the Fulgoroidea, in which a number of 
life-history studies were made, are reserved for a later contribu- 
tion. Owing to travelling, the study of my Cuban material has 
been interrupted for two years. 
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CICADIDjE. 
Tibicen ( Dicer opr octa ) biconica (Wk.) 
A single female of this species was taken by Dr. Salt at La 
Milpa, near Cienfuegos, 3rd July, 1925, and two recent last 
nymphal exuviae at the same place a week previously. It has 
been recorded under the name of Cicada bicosta Wk. (which is a 
mainland form) as ovipositing in the leaf stalks of coconut palms 
(U. S. Dept. Agric., Div. Entom., Bull. VI, pp. 20-23, 1902). 
Studies from the Biological Laboratory in Cuba (Atkins Foundation) of 
the Harvard Institute for Tropical Biology and Medicine. 
2 Contr. Harvard Inst. Troy. Biol. Med., Ill, pp. 69-110, 1 fig. 1926. Other 
papers on these collections are in Ann. Ent. Soc. America, Sept. 1927, and, in 
collaboration with Dr. Salt, Trans. Ent. Soc. London , (1926), pp. 427-436, pi. 
xciii. The Homoptera in general of Cuba have been recently dealt with by 
Osborn, Journ. Econ. Entom. XIX, pp. 99-106, 1926; and Ann. Ent. Soc. 
America, XIX, pp. 335-366, pis. 30, 31, 1926; while the Cercopidae {Psyche, 
XXXII, pp. 95-105, 1925) and the Membracidse (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 
XX, pp. 203-214, pi. 1) have received comprehensive taxonomic treatment 
from Metcalf and Bruner. 
