18S THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



very gradually enlarging to the ocellus, below which it is subobsolete ; 

 lateral foveols wanting ; eyes moderate, subpyriform ; antennee about as 

 long as the pronotum, with the post-basal joints distinctly depressed. 

 Proiiotum rather short, feebly rounded in front, slightly rotundato- 

 angulate behind, the lateral carinse subparallel, faintly sinuate, the disk 

 narrowest behind the middle of the prozona, which is barely longer than 

 the metazona. Tegmina barely surpassing the hind femora, the discoidal 

 area scarcely narrowing distally and scarcely narrower than the widest part 

 of the ulnar area, rather densely reticulate proximally, with two rows of 

 irregular cells distally ; wings with the veins of ihe anterior area more or 

 less roseate. Hind femora as long as the abdomen, not very slender, 

 green, feebly ferruginous beneath. 



Length of body, 20 mm.; pronotum, 4 mm.; tegmina, 15.5 mm.; 

 hind femora, 13 mm. 



I 9 . Mt. Alvarez, Mexico, E. Palmer. 



Orphulella scudderi. 



Ophicla Scudden ^o\., Me'm. Soc. Zool. France, I., 142 (1SS8). 



I have specimens taken at La Firmina, near Bemba, Cuba, by 

 Wright, and on the Isle of Pines by myself 



ERRATUM. 



Page 121 (C. E., May, 1899), near the bottom, for " Eudeopsylla" 

 and " Eudeopsylla JiigraT read " Udeopsylla'' and " Udeopsylla nigra." 



SOME NEW SPECIES OF DELTOCEPH.A.LUS. 



BY E. D. BALL, FORT COLLINS, COLO. 

 D E L T O C E P H A L U S A R E O L A T U S , U. Sp. 



Resembling iuiputatis, Osb. & Ball, but with a much longer vertex ; 

 vertex longer than \n producta, Walk. Olive green, a spot on the middle 

 and another at the tip of each elytron and all below black. Length, ? , 

 4 mm.; (^ , 3.5 mm.; width, 1.75 mm. 



Vertex flat, strongly acutely angled, the tip rounding, almost twice 

 as long as the pronotum, fully twice longer than width between eyes, 

 margin sharp, angle with the face acute ; front depressed, almost as much 

 above the ocelli as below, lateral margins straight, continuous with those 

 of the clypeus; lori« small, two-thirds the width of the clypeus ; pronotum 



