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CARDIASPIS nov. gen. 



Body stout, head vertical, pronotum and dorsulum strongly ascending 

 posteriorly; head emarginate posteriorly, vertex flat, sinuately narrowing 

 each side at the insertion of the antennae, its front edge slightly triangu 

 larly produced each side of the anterior ocellus; frontal processes sharply 

 separated from the vertex, slightly depressed below its level and repre 

 sented by two large, slightly transverse lobes which are contiguous along 

 the median line and shorter than the vertex ; antennae stout, slightly longer 

 than the width of the head (including the eyes), third joint slightly longer 

 than the fourth ; eyes large, globular, projecting slightly beyond the sides 

 of the pronotum and occupying the entire side of the head; tempora not 

 developed ; anterior ocellus not visible from above on account of the verti 

 cal position of the head. 



Pronotum greatly convex transversely, lateral impressions large and 

 deep; dorsulum at middle nearly twice shorter than its width and less 

 than twice the length of the pronotum ; its anterior margin distinctly 

 more arched than the posterior margin; mesonotum very little convex 

 longitudinally; side pieces of pro- and mesosternum bulging and very 

 prominent. 



Anterior wings hyaline, elongate-oval, nearly twice as long as the body, 

 transparent, at apical third very little wider than at middle, thence grad 

 ually narrowing to the apex, which is rather narrowly rounded ; veins fine, 

 none of them much curving, petiolus cubiti distinctly longer than the dis- 

 coidal part of the subcosta, a large pterostigma, tip of wing at the ter 

 mination of the fourth furcal ; cells of normal shape, anterior basal cell 

 deeply concave, with a wide, flattened margin, marginal cells moderately 

 large, the second distinctly larger than the first. 



Epimera of metasternum greatly developed, transverse, spiniform proc 

 esses very small, vertical. Legs short and robust, hind tibiae without 

 basal tooth, tarsi normal. 



Following Dr. Fr. Loew's arrangements of Psyllidae, this 

 genus belongs to the subfamily Psyllinae and the tribe Aphala- 

 rini. It is distinguished from all described genera of this tribe 

 by its vertical head and the form of the frontal processes. 



Cardiaspis artifex n. sp. Color of upper side pale ochre -yellow with red 

 dish or reddish-brown markings of variable extent and intensity; frontal 

 processes usually bright red ; abdomen above usually blackish, each seg 

 ment margined behind with red or yellow; antennae pale; side pieces of 

 sternum sometimes bright red; legs pale, femora dusky; epimera of meta 

 sternum pale. Vertex along the median line distinctly longer than half its 

 width at base, discal impressions large, black; frontal processes three- 

 fourths as long as the vertex at middle, each process subquadrate with the 

 apical edge slightly obliquely truncate; antennae slightly longer than the 

 width of the head, second joint quadrate, third joint but slightly longer 



