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Annual Report of New York 
YELLOW AND RED -LINED LEAF-HOPPERS. TDK LATTER ENTER OUR DWELLINGS 
and equidistant from each other their whole length, whilst in the 
red-lined species they converge and are united together through 
the anterior half of their length. The eyelets or ocelli are placed 
within the outer sides of these stripes in the former species, whilst 
in the latter they are wholly outside of the outer edges of these 
stripes. Other differences which are less conspicuous it is unneces¬ 
sary to mention. One point, however, in which they differ in their 
habits merits to be stated. Notwithstanding the Yellow-lined Leaf- 
hopper is so very much more common and so frequently inhabits 
the vegetation around our dwellings, I have never known an instance 
in which it has been attracted by the light of the lamp to enter 
open doors or windows upon summer evenings; whilst of the six 
specimens, male and female, of the Eed-lined Leaf-hopper which I 
have in hand, four were taken within doors, either alighted around 
a lamp in the evening, or upon the closed windows by day, these 
latter having doubtlessly entered the lighted rooms in the evening 
and flew to the windows to escape when daylight arrived. 
I may here remark further, with regard to these pretty rose red 
insects, which we are liable to meet with within our dwellings, and 
which look as though they might be thus colored from being stained 
with blood, that they are extremely agile, darting with such velo¬ 
city as almost to be imperceptible; and without any rustling of ils 
wings or other noise to indicate its approach, one of them drops in 
the glare of the lamplight upon the papers close beside our hand, 
so suddenly and silently that, seeing it where it had not been a 
moment before, it seems like a spectre that has supernatural ly 
arisen there. 
The history of one of the specimens in my hands is so singular 
and interesting that it is well entitled to be narrated. It was 
brought to me by a physician from a neighboring town who gave 
me the following account: A patient under his care, a young lady, 
vomiting in a clean white washbowl, suddenly noticed this bright 
red insect in the bowl, upon the matter vomited, and she and her 
attendants were certain that she had thrown it from her stomach. 
He wished to know it this was possible, and if an insect like this 
had ever before been seen. I was able to immediately show him 
another specimen exactly like the one he brought, and to assure 
him that this latter had never been touched by the digestive juices 
of the stomach, or it would have been soiled and its bright colors 
faded thereby; it had not even been wetted, or its thin delicate 
