. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . bluegrass. Adults abundant July 28th. 29th. A few nymphs. LEAFHOPPERS OF MAINE. 119 At this season and for many of the fields near Orono this speciesseems to replace inimicus in importance. Adults appear in collections forOrono, common in meadow, Aug. 5 and 9, No. Harpswell Aug. 12,meadow, Portland Aug. 13, meadow, not abundant, adults, Houlton , grass land, low ground. Van Buren Aug. 27, Ft. Kent Aug. 28. Alsoquite abundant during the season of 1914. Deltocephahis sylvestris Osborn and Ball Deltoccphalus sylvestris O. & B. I
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . bluegrass. Adults abundant July 28th. 29th. A few nymphs. LEAFHOPPERS OF MAINE. 119 At this season and for many of the fields near Orono this speciesseems to replace inimicus in importance. Adults appear in collections forOrono, common in meadow, Aug. 5 and 9, No. Harpswell Aug. 12,meadow, Portland Aug. 13, meadow, not abundant, adults, Houlton , grass land, low ground. Van Buren Aug. 27, Ft. Kent Aug. 28. Alsoquite abundant during the season of 1914. Deltocephahis sylvestris Osborn and Ball Deltoccphalus sylvestris O. & B. Iowa Acad. Sci. Proc. IV, 213. This is a small slender species a little larger than melsheimeri withthe head a little less pointed and the elytra faintly marked. Length Collected at Orono July 31st, Aug. 2nd, Highmoor Farm Aug. iSth,Grand Lakes Stream Aug. 16, Princeton Aug. i6th, Alt. Katahdin, 1000-1500 ft., Aug. 20-22, Houlton Aug. 24th, Kineo Aug. 17th, Fort KentAug. 28th. This species is usually found in or near woods and upon Fig. 22. D. sylvestris: a, adult; b, face; c, vertex and pronotum ; d,femiak; e, male genitalia. (After Osborn and Ball.) Deltocephahis melsheimeri Fitch. Amhlycephalus melsheimeri Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab., p. 61, melsheimeri Osborn, Rept. N. Y. Entomologist, 1904, p. very small and slender species with sharply pointed head pallidcolor and very narrow black border on central part of female mm. I20 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I9I5. This is usually abundant on its particular host plant, Danthoniaspicata, and has been collected this season (1913) at Orono, Mt. Katah-din, Aug. 22, 600, 1000, 1500, 1900 ft.; Houlton Aug. 25th, Fort KentAug. 28th. Deltocephalus apicatits Osborn. Dcltocephalns apicatus Osborn. Can. Ent. XXXII, p. 285. Light brown with the head and apex of elytra light yellow. to 3 mm. Has been taken in a number of meadows around Orono July 29 to
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