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IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCES. 
Habitat: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, 
Massachusetts, New York. 
Specimens of G. saint cyri Prov. , that I have from Quebec, 
Canada, belong to sub. sp. I. Jlava. 
C. XANTHOCEPHALA GERM. 
Germar’s original description (Germ. Zeit. fur die Ento., 1- 
189) is as follows: 
Nigra, capite flavescente, frontis, fascia nigra, elytris macnlis margin- 
atibus hyalinis, puncta colloso ante apicum nigro, pedibus pallido-fuscaque 
annulatis. 
Habitat in Pennsylvania, Carolina, Zimmermann. One and one-balf lin 
lang. Kopf gelb, um der scheitel dunkel, eine queerbinde auf der unter- 
seite scbwarz. Deckschilde schwarz, ein Fleck am vorderrande vor der 
Spitze, ein anderer, der den ganzen Hinterrand einnimmt, glasbell, latz- 
terer mit einem schwarzen sch wieligen Punkte vor der Vorderecke. Seine 
gelblich, braun geringelt. 
This species is the most constant in size and coloration of any 
in the genus. From a study of over one hundred specimens 
representing every locality mentioned below, I have prepared 
the following description: 
Small, brown or black without markings of any kind above; face with 
brown bands above, dark below with a distinct light band crossing the cen- 
ter; hemelytra very sparsely pubescent. 
Front moderately inflated, light above with about nine transverse inter- 
rupted brown bands, band below these, and clypeus black, lorae, included 
portions of front, and margin of anterior coxal fossae yellow. Vertex 
not strongly depressed; suture between vertex and front distinct. Pro- 
notum with about nineteen flne indistinct wrinkles. Hemelytra strongly 
impunctured, very sparsely pubescent; second apical cell broad, irregularly 
wedge-shaped. Under side black; legs brown, spurs and spines tipped 
with black. Length, three and one-half mm., width of pronotum, one and 
four-tenths mm. 
Var. a. Black above; a small white spot on center of costa. 
b. Glaucus above. 
Habitat: Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisana, Mary- 
land, District of Columbia, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, Pennsyl- 
vania, Carolina (Walker) and New Jersey (Smith). 
C. OBTUSA, SAY. 
Cercopis dbtusa Say. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., IV, 339. (1825.) 
Clastoptera achatma Germ. Zeit fur die Ent., t, 189. (1839.) 
C. testae ea Fitch. Fourth An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. (1851.) 
C. pini Fitch. Fourth An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. (1851.) 
C. UneatocolUs Stal. Eug. Resa Omk. jord., IV, 286. 
C. osborni Gillette. Hemip. Ool., 71. (1895.) 
C. stolida Uhl. ? 
C. undulata Uhl. ? 
