State Agricultural Society. 
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MALES OF RED-LINED LEAF-HOPPER DESCRIBED. 
slender stripe of the same color, which is widened at its hind end and reaches the 
margin at the end of the curved suture; this stripe being often obliterated and 
only its posterior end remaining in form of a triangular marginal spot; on the 
hind part is a curved transverse yellowish line, its ends joining those of the curved 
suture, and with it inclosing a transverse red spot of a regular oval form, the sur¬ 
face of which is finely striated transversely. The xving covers are salt white, with 
the veins and veinlcts red, and a red stripe on the outer border extending two- 
thirds of the length, edged with a white line upon its outer side. The wings are 
salt white with very fine slender red veins. On the underside the abdomen is pale 
yellow, sometimes having stains of red along the sides. The ovipositor or egg 
tube is brown and at its tip black. The legs are pale red, the hind pair long and 
slender with their thighs pale yellow. 
The males of this Red-lined Leaf-hopper are smaller than their 
mates, measuring only 0.35 in length, and, as the reader is aware 
from what has already been stated, they differ remarkably from 
the other sex in color, being of a greenish instead of a rosy red 
hue, with the stripes of the thorax and the veins of the wing covers 
deeper green or olive, only the base of the thorax and the inner 
edge of the wing covers being colored as they are in the female. 
The ground color of the males corresponds with that of the other sex, they 
being very pale green or greenish gray, above and beneath. The head has the 
yellow stripes wholly obliterated, except the basal ends of the two middle ones. 
The eyes and ocelli are frequently of a vivid crimson color in the living insect. The 
thorax has a largo spot on its basal half as in the female, but of a different color, 
it being ochrcy yellow or sometimes pale gray. This spot varies greatly in size, 
sometimes extending to the middle of the thorax, and sometimes but half this 
distance, and embraces the ends of four and sometimes six of the longitudinal 
stripes. And where these stripes pass upon this spot they lose their yellow color 
and become red as in the female, but of a deeper tint of crimson than they are in 
that sex. Forward of this spot and upon each side of it these stripes totally dis¬ 
appear, except the two middle ones, which aro very faint watery green in the living 
insect and dull olive in preserved specimens. The scutel has two red spots on its 
base, at the ends of the two middle stripes of the thorax. Its outor angles aro 
opposite the end of the third stripe, and a triangular spot commonly occupies these 
angles, which spot is red when the end of the third stripe is red, but when tho 
ends of only four of the thoracic stripes are red this spot is of a dull ochrey yellow 
color. In one of the specimens before me this spot is larger, occupying all that 
portion of the scutel which is back of the end of the second stripe of the thorax. 
In another specimen it is small, and in tho third example before me these spots 
and the two between them are wanting. The wing covers vary in the extent of 
the red color on their inner margins. In one instance only a narrow space adjoin¬ 
ing the scutel is faintly tinged with red, and at the tip the slender marginal vein 
and the veinlcts which join it are deep crimson. In the two other instances now 
under my eye the tips and a broad stripe extending the whole length of the inner 
margin is gray with the veins and veinlets in this stripe bright red. The remain- 
Uig veins and veinlcts and a stripe along the outer margin are olive. 
