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Annual Report of New Yore 
VELLOW-LIEBD LEAF-HOPPER DESCRIBED. RED-LIHED LEAF-HOPPER DESCRIBED. 
body is of a nearly regular oval form, but when tho wing covers are fully closed it 
is more tapering posteriorly and more pointed at its tip than in front. It is strongly 
flattened, and more convex across the closed wing-covers than in front. The sur¬ 
face is smooth and slightly glossy. It is of a very pale green color, fading when 
long preserved to very pale dull yellowish, the underside being paler. The head 
is flat, semicircular in front, concave at the base, narrower than the thorax, more 
than twice as broad as long, with a slender impressed line in the middle. The 
ocelli arc nearly as distant from each other as from the eyes. Six stripes of a pale 
yellow color extend longitudinally from the base to the anterior edge. These 
become faded and indistinct in most of the preserved specimens. The two middle 
stripes are parallel to each other and have tho ocelli inserted in their outer sides. 
The outer stripes occupy the inner sides of the orbits of the eyes. The antennas 
are pale yellow, their bristle brown and equalling the thorax in length. The 
thorax is nearly flat, its surface finely striated transversely, and occupied by eight 
parallel longitudinal stripes of pale yellow, which are sometimes as wide as the 
intervals between them, sometimes much narrower. Thcscutel has the six middle 
stripes of the thorax prolonged across it, the outer ones merely forming a triangu¬ 
lar spot upon its outer angles. It is crossed by an arched suture slightly back of 
the middle, which hasits ends turned abruptly backward. The t oing covers are 
destitute of transverse veinlets except at their tips and in the middle one of the 
longitudinal cells. 
The Red-lined Leap-hopper has the body shaped the same as in tho foregoing 
species and 0.43 long in the female. This sex has the head red and more or less 
striped and spotted with yellowish white. A narrow triangular spot of this color 
is placed on the middle of the base, extending half the length of the head and 
ending in a very narrow acute point. A second spot is placed behind the ocellus, 
reaching from its orbit to the base, commonly with its outer anterior angle prolonged 
outward and forward in an oblique streak reaching half way to the outer edge 
forward of the eye; this spot being also sometimes extended forward, passing the 
inner side of the ocellus and reaching nearly to the anterior edge. A third spot is 
placed also on the base equidistant between the second spot and the eye. It is 
small and triangular, extending nearly to the outer end of tho oblique streak. 
The face is sometimes pale yellow with the upper border red; at other times it is 
pale red more or less clouded with pale ycllow r . The antennas are commonly red, 
their bristle black, long, slender, tapering, nearly half the length of tho body. 
The thorax is yellowish white with the posterior half of its surface stained with 
red in the middle. It is finely striated transversely and is crossed lengthwise 
with eight bright rose red stripes which arc commonly very distinct and narrower 
than the intervals between them, but varying in different specimens. The two 
middle stripes are the most regular and smooth, often slightly thicker at their 
anterior ends and nearer approached than they are towards the base. The second 
stripe is uneven and somewhat dislocated in its middle, ending abruptly without 
attaining the anterior edge, its forward part bent inward and almost touching the 
middle stripe and in one instance uniting with it. The two remaining stripes 
united at both their ends and sometimes through their whole length, tho outer one 
broader and placed but slightly inside of the outer edge. Tho scutel has the 
impressed suture across its middle strongly curved and the ends not abruptly 
turned backward as they are in the males; its color is red, with a yellowish white 
stripe in tho middle which ends at the curved suture, and on each side of this is ft 
