. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . Prof. A. P. Morse, North Harpswell Aug. 12,Portland Aug. 14, ]\It. Kj^tahdin Aug. 21, Mars Hill Aug. 25, Ft. Fair-field and Phair Aug. 26, Van Buren Aug. 27, Ft. Kent Aug. 28-29. Inthe northeastern part of the state it occurs very commonly on uplandsin pastures, meadows and oatfields and was even taken on potato vinesso it must be counted of greater economic importance than where it isconfined to boggy or swampy lands. It probably selects succulent plantsand its distribution is aftected by climate or Fig. 17. The bog leafh
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . Prof. A. P. Morse, North Harpswell Aug. 12,Portland Aug. 14, ]\It. Kj^tahdin Aug. 21, Mars Hill Aug. 25, Ft. Fair-field and Phair Aug. 26, Van Buren Aug. 27, Ft. Kent Aug. 28-29. Inthe northeastern part of the state it occurs very commonly on uplandsin pastures, meadows and oatfields and was even taken on potato vinesso it must be counted of greater economic importance than where it isconfined to boggy or swampy lands. It probably selects succulent plantsand its distribution is aftected by climate or Fig. 17. The bog leafhopper (Helochara communis): a, Adult;h, side view; c, head and pronotum of female; d, head and pronotumof male; e, face; f, female genitalia; g, male genitalia; h, enlarged (From U. S. Dept. Agric. Bureau of Entomology—Bui. No. 108.) Etica>ithus acuminatus Fabr. Cicada acuminata Fabricius. Ent. Syst. IV :^, 40, I794-Eucanthus orbitalis Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab. 57, acuminatus Osborn and Ball. Proc. la. Acad. Sci. IV, 182. Black with white markings on head and elytra. The vertex isdepressed, the ocelli near the forward part of the disk, elytra with whitestripes parallel to the veins. Length 5 mm. This species has been found very sparingly in Elaine, one record July22 on Viburnum for Orono and another for Mt. Katahdin where a few LEAFHOPPERS OF MAINE. 105 specimens were taken at an altitude of about 1500 to 1600 feet, also onespecimen near Orono, July 10, 1914. It has never been recorded asoccurring in any great abundance and th
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