THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 169 



NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.— III. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Lamenia Californica, n. sp. 



Form and size of L. vulgaris. Black, shining, densely pruinose ; 

 head, pectoral pieces, and legs fulvous. Length, 4 mm. 



Front but little wider across the middle than next the vertex. Head 

 fulvous, tinged with brown on the vertex, apex of the clypeus, margins of 

 the cheeks, and on the front each side of the central carina. Eyes dark 

 brown. Pronotum fulvous, more or less embrowned on the disc ; pro- 

 pleura, base of the intermediate femora and the claws dusky or blackish. 

 Elytra as in vulgaris., blackish with a row of fine white lines on the 

 transverse nervures at the base of the apical areoles. Plates of the male 

 concave on their inner edges, touching at base and apex only. 



This species is very near our eastern vulgaris from which it may be 

 distinguished by its fulvous head, pronotum, and pectus, and the form of 

 the plates of the male. In vulgaris these are slightly retreating on their 

 inner margins at base, and near the middle exhibit a distinct re-entrant 

 angle. 



Los Angeles, California. Described from six examples, all males, 

 received from Mr. D. W. Coquillett. (Nos. 642 and 643.) 



Cicadula punctifrotis var. ainerica?ia, n. var. 



This variety differs from the typical form as follows : Front deeper 

 brown, scutellum with a black spot within the basal angles mostly covered 

 by the pronotum which is there discoloured or marked with a brown 

 cloud ; two outer areoles on the clavus and the three inner on the corium 

 blackish, appearing as five oblique blackish vittte ; apical areoles infus- 

 cated ; nervures of the wings deep fuscous. Other markings and the 

 genital characters as in the parent form. 



The apparently constant differences between this and the typical form 

 seem to call for a varietal name, but it could hardly be considered a 

 distinct species. About Buffalo it occurs in great numbers on low willow 

 bushes from June to August. I have taken one example that does not 

 differ from typical European specimens in my collection. It occurred on 

 osiers in company with the variety July 12th, 1S89, but does not seem to 

 be common. 



Athysanus parallelus, n. sp. 



Closely allied to A. striola, Fall. ; larger and stouter, vertex shorter ; 



