xv, 2 Crawford: Jumping Plant Lice 143 



abdomen and metathorax whitish or pale greenish yellow; legs 

 and antennae yellowish or pale ; wings membranous, clear. Body 

 small, but robust. 



Head small, much deflexed, appearing very short from dorsal 

 aspect, not as broad as thorax; vertex roundly convex from 

 frontal view, without prominent foveal impressions, slightly 

 elevated at posterior ocelli; anterior ocellus visible from front, 

 at lower margin of vertex; frons not visible; gense mostly 

 concealed by retraction of head toward thorax; clypeus and beak 

 small. Eyes small. Antennae very short, not half as long as 

 width of head, with several very long, slender setae giving the 

 antenna? a tassellike appearance. 



Thorax short and well arched. Leg's short, small and slender, 

 spines very inconspicuous. Forewings broad and rounded at 

 apex, veins slender and not prominent. 



Male: Genital segment small, short; forceps nearly as long as 

 anal valve, very slender, tapering to acute apex, somewhat bent 

 forward in apical third; anal valve broadest at base, converging 

 to narrow apex. Female : Genital segment not quite as long as 

 rest of abdomen, dorsal valve a little larger than ventral, trunc- 

 ate at- apex. 



Tenimber Islands, Larat (Muir) , 1 male and 2 females. 



Pauropsylla nigra sp. no v. 



Length of body, 1.2 millimeters; forewing, 1.6. General color 

 shining black; vertex and thorax dorsad glossy black, abdomen 

 black above and below with connective membrane orange yellow. 

 Genas orange ventrad, thoracic venter orange in part and the 

 rest black; antennas yellowish; legs yellowish except hind fem- 

 ora, which are mostly black. 



Structurally very similar to Pauropsylla brevicornis, dif- 

 fering in the following characteristics : Antennae about one-third 

 as long as width of head, with only two long setae, these both 

 at the tip and as long as the antennae. Forewings shaped and 

 veined much as in the related species but a little smaller. 



Female genitalia similar but with a pair of small projections 

 from caudal end between dorsal and ventral valves. 



India, Pusa, Bihar (C. S. Misra) , September 5, 1914, 1 female, 

 found in the laboratory. 



Pauropsylla verticis sp. nov. Plate I, figs. 3 and 4. 



Length of body, 2.3 millimeters, forewing 2.5. General color 



