. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 78 size, but has a brown spot on each side of the thorax behind the horns, and a bar across the middle of the back and the posterior tip, of the same colour. Telamona ampelopsidis, Harris.—Is a rather large Tree-hopper, sometimes measuring half an inch in length. It is found on the Virginian Creeper {Ampelopsis quinquefolia) and is very much the same colour as the bark of that plant. The thorax is raised up in the middle into a square hump and is crossed with three, more or less distinc
. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 78 size, but has a brown spot on each side of the thorax behind the horns, and a bar across the middle of the back and the posterior tip, of the same colour. Telamona ampelopsidis, Harris.—Is a rather large Tree-hopper, sometimes measuring half an inch in length. It is found on the Virginian Creeper {Ampelopsis quinquefolia) and is very much the same colour as the bark of that plant. The thorax is raised up in the middle into a square hump and is crossed with three, more or less distinct, brown bands. I have taken this insect in the month of July. In some of the Cercopidae the face slopes downwards towards the breast; the thorax is of moderate size, and never extends much beyond the base of the wing-cases, and does not conceal the head when viewed from above. The Frog-hoppers (Amphrophora), also called Cuckoo-spits, are those insects which have the habit of enveloping themselves in the remains of the liquid food which they suck from plants and then eject again in the form of a frothy substance with which they entirely cover themselves, in the same way that the larvae of some beetles, to a less extent, cover their bodies with the remains of their solid food. In the perfect state, to which they attain late in the summer, they are very active insects, mostly of dull colours, and are to be found in grass and low herbage ; one species, however, A. parallela, Say, is the insect which forms the small masses of foam, which may be seen on the young branches of pine trees in June and July. It is an oval brown insect about half an inch long with a white spot in the middle of each hemelytron. The popular names of these insects are taken from an absurd idea, which actually dates back to the days of Aristotle, and which is fully believed in by many people even to-day that the frothy excrementitious secretion was the spittle of the cuckoo or the frog. Clastoptera proteus,
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