HICKORY BUGS. 325 
113. The yellow tree-hopper. 
Telamona unicolor Fitch. 
A tree-hopper of a uniform dull ocher-yellow, somewhat like a beech-nut in shape 
and size, with a prominent hump jutting up on the middle of its back, highest ante- 
riorly and descending with a slight curve to its hind angle, which is very obtusely 
rounded and but little prominent ; its interior angle also rounded and with only a 
slight concavity below it at the forward end of the hump, while at its posterior base 
is a strong one, the whole surface with close coarse punctures and showing a few 
elevated longitudinal lines low down on each side and towards the tip ; the upper 
edge of the hump black and also the tip of the abdomen on its under side ; fore-wings 
glassy, with a black spot on their base and tip, and their veins margined with slender 
black lines. Length, .45 inch ; height, .25 inch. 
114. The banded tree-hopper. 
Telamona fasciata Fitch. 
Like the preceding species, but smaller and of a tawny-yellow color, its head and 
the anterior edge of the thorax and the under side paler cream -yellow or straw-col- 
ored, with a single small black dot above each eye; its thorax in front and at tip 
blackish, and also an oblique baud across the hind end of the dorsal lump longer 
than high, longer at its base than above, highest anteriorly, with a stronger con- 
cavity at its anterior end than at its posterior, and at its anterior base compressed 
and forming hereby a shallow indentation upon each side. Length, .38; height, .20 
inch. (Fitch.) 
115. The short-horned tree-hopper. 
Ceresa brevicornis Fitch. 
Very like Ceresa bubalus on the apple and wild thorn, but differing in having the 
horns much shorter, while the sides of the thorax, when viewed in front, are not 
gradually curved outwards, but are straight or rectilinear, with the horns abruptly 
projecting from the corner at the upper end of this line. The acute spine at the tip 
of the thorax is also longer and slenderer. The thorax between the horns is slightly 
convex. The dried specimen is of a pale dull yellow color speckled with faint pale 
green dots and with a paler straw-colored stripe, quite distinct, upon the angular 
sides of the thorax from each eye upward to the horn and from thence to the summit 
of the thorax. Length, .36 inch. (Fitch.) 
116. The face-banded cixius. 
Cixiu8 cinctifrons Fitch. 
A small four-winged hemipter of a white color, varied with blackish brown, and 
with three elevated lines upon the face and thorax; its face snow-white, crossed by 
two black bands, the outer raised lines dotted with white in these bands ; the thorax 
black, tawny yellow on each side beyond the raised lines; neck white with a row of 
blackish dots upon each side; fore-wings smoky brown, their veins dotted with black 
in places, their basal edge, an oblique band and a spot in the middle of the outer 
margin white, their membranous tips white and somewhat hyaliue, with a brown 
band across the transverse veinlets, and the hind margin blackish, interrupted by 
the snow-white tips of the veins ; hind wings black and transparent; under side 
yellowish-white, with two blackish bands on each of the four forward shanks. 
Length, .18 inch. 
