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niCKOBY. LEAVES. 
176. Banded tree-hopper, Telamona fasciola , Fitch. 
A tree-hopper resembling the preceding in its form, but smaller 
and of a tawny yellow color, its head and the anterior margin of 
the thorax and the under side paler cream-yellow or straw-colored 
with a single small black dot above each eye ; its thorax in front 
and at tip blackish and also an oblique band across the hind end 
of the dorsal hump and a spot on the tips of the wing covers ; 
the dorsal hump more long than high, longer at its base than 
above, highest anteriorly, with a stronger concavity at its anterior 
end than at its posterior and at its anterior base compressed and 
forming hereby a shallow indentation upon each side. Length 
0.38, height 0.20. This is also a rare insect, and as in kindred 
species, the black colors are often partially or totally obliterated, 
except the black dot above each eye. 
The V-marked tree-hopper ( Smilia vau , Say), an extremely 
common and variable species is sometimes met with upon walnut 
bushes, but belongs to the oak, on which it is always found in 
abundance. 
177. SiiORT-noiiNED tree-hopper, Ceresa brevicomis , new species. (Ilomop- 
tera. Membracidse.) 
This is so similar to the common Buffalo tree-hopper No. 22, 
that it will scarcely be distinguished from it except by a practiced 
eye, although it is undoubtedly a distinct species. It differs from 
that in having the horns much more short, and 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 more long and slender. The 
thorax between the horns is slightly convex. The dried specimen 
is of a pale dull yellow color freckled 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 of the female 
°-36. It was met with upon hickory bushes in New-Jersey. 
178. Face-banded Cixius, Cixius cinctijrons , new species. (Homoptcra. 
Fulgoridae.) 
A small four-winged fly of a white color varied with blackish 
brown and with three elevated lines upon the face and thorax, its 
