Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ochara communis Fitch, a grass green sj^e-cies, is found in great abundance in damp, grassy places, incompany with the yellow-legged, closely allied, and Dledrocephala quadrivittata Say, which has thevertex flattened and four scarlet stripes on the wings. In Tet-tigonia the antennae are half as long as the body. T. bifida Say is common ingrass. In Cercopis theprothorax is large andhexagonal. The Clastoptera pro-teus of Fitch
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ochara communis Fitch, a grass green sj^e-cies, is found in great abundance in damp, grassy places, incompany with the yellow-legged, closely allied, and Dledrocephala quadrivittata Say, which has thevertex flattened and four scarlet stripes on the wings. In Tet-tigonia the antennae are half as long as the body. T. bifida Say is common ingrass. In Cercopis theprothorax is large andhexagonal. The Clastoptera pro-teus of Fitch is acommon insect in blue-berry fields and cran-berry pastures. It isshort and thick, with a bright yellow head, with a black bandon the fi-ont margin of the vertex, and a broader one on thefront, and a black dot near the apex of the el^tra, w hile thelegs are yellowish white, and the tarsi are black. It variesgreatly in its colors. In jiphropliora the head is of moderatesize, with two ocelli approximate on the crown of the head ;the prothorax is trapezoidal and the posterior tibiae have twoteeth. A. qimdrinotata Say is found on FuLGORiD^ Leach. This famil}, as stated by Westwood, isat once known by having only three distinct joints in the an-tennae, and the two ocelli are placed beneath the eyes. The CICADARI^. 533 head is very large; the body is high and convex, often com-pressed laterally. The hind legs are thickened and enlarged,adapted for leaping purposes. Some of the strangest shapesamong insects are found in this group. This is due to the greatdevelopment of the forehead, or vertex of the head, which is pro-longed either angularlj^, or into a long snout-like process, as inFulgora, while in other species it is as long as the entire body. •The species of some genera, such as Plata livibata, Phenaxvaiiegata, Lystra auricoma and L. lanata, emit a waxy whitesecretion, made into a fine white wax, Avhich is much esteemedin China and the East Indies. (Westwood.
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