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Color deep lemon-yellow. Pace and all belov concolorous. Vertex with a narrow 
median lineand a smallspot in the position of each ocellus black. Pronotumposteriorly 
dark greenish yellow. Scutellum greenishyellow. Elytra hyaline, nervures yellow, wings 
iridescent. Tergum black, with narrow apical margins of segments and the whole of the 
last segment yellow. Extreme tips of valves black. 
Length 3.5 mm. Described from one mile. 
Steamboat Springs, July 12th, on Carex (Baker). 
Cicadttla 6-notata Fall. Uet. VaiiDuzee. 
Montrose, June 24th; Colorado Springs, August 1st 
(Gillette). Fort Collins, July 24th (Baker). 
Cicadula variata Fall. 
Leadville, August 23d (Gillette). Steamboat Springs, July 
16th (Baker). 
^iiipoasca aspersa n. sp. 
Female: Clypeus one-third longer than broad, basal suture straight; lorae half as 
broad and two-thirds as long as the clypeus; genaelong 
and narrow, moderately furrowed beneath the eyes, the 
furrow extending to the lorae, outer margin somewhat con¬ 
cave; front two-thirds longer than broad, twice as long 
as the clypeus, superior angle little more than a right angle 
and broadly rounded. Face and vertex without sculptur¬ 
ing, the latter glabrous. Disc of vertex once and a half 
as long on the middle as next the eyes; 
pronotum slightly l?ss than twice 
wider than long, front margin broadly 
rounded, hind margin slightly con¬ 
cave, disc very finely longitudinally 
aciculate. Scutellum broader than 
long, transverse groove straight and 
black. Last ventral segment with the 
hind margin evenly rounded and the 
posterior angles sloping. Color green¬ 
ish; face yellowish green, front more 
or less distinctly marked with a pale 
median line and with transverse con¬ 
centric pale lines; vertex and prono¬ 
tum whitish or pale yellowish green, 
with about four more or less distinct 
deeper yellowish green and variously 
bent, nearly longitudinal lines, some¬ 
times orange on the former and dusky on the latter; 'scutellum with basal angles 
dark or yellowish green, median portion whitish mottled with greenish; elytra 
greenish, hyaline at tip, nervures whitish, basal two-thirds finely spotted with dusky 
green; tergum black with more or less of sides and apical margins yellowish; venter pale 
green, pygofers darker; legs pale greenish shading to bright blue at tips. Length 3 mm. 
Male: Markings which in the female are dark yellowish green, are dusky here. 
Described from six females and two males. 
Fort Collins, on Bigelovia, September 27th (Gillette). In 
mountains south-west of North Park July 10th, and at 
Steamboat Springs July 12th, on Artemisia tridentata 
(Baker). 
