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A damaged specimen is in the collection from Wasatch, taken 

 June 27. It is a pretty species, with red legs. 



28. Halticus Uhleri Giard. Societe de Biologic, Compt. 

 Rend., 1892, 9 ser., v. 4, p. Si. Halticus minutus Uhler. Ms. 

 Popenoe, Kans. Exper. Station. Second Annual Report, 1889. 

 p. 212, pi. IX, figs. 10 and 12. 



This species is now known to be widely distributed in the 

 United States, and in many localities of Maryland, Virginia, and 

 Pennsylvania it is extremely abundant upon cabbages in the gar 

 dens. It has been found a few times by the writer upon burdock, 

 Lappa major, in the neighborhood of Baltimore. The leaves of 

 this plant were almost covered by the great number of these little 

 flea-like hoppers, which jumped off into the surrounding soil upon 

 the lightest approach of the collecting net. It occurs fully winged 

 in July, but the greater number of the females appear in the un 

 finished state which preserves the more robust and convex figure, 

 with the short and completely coriaceous wing-covers. Other 

 specimens in my collection were obtained at the following locali 

 ties : Rock Island, 111., B. D. Walsh; St. Louis, Mo., O. Lug 

 ger; Washington, D. C., and Berkeley Springs, Va., O. Heide- 

 mann ; York county, Pa., F. E. Melsheimer ; Egg Harbor, N. J., 

 J. P. Wild ; mountains of North Carolina, Dr. J. B. Bean ; Orange 

 Springs, Fla., Grimsby ; Canada, J. Petit ; Riley county. Kansas, 

 E. A. Popenoe ; American Fork Canon, E. A. Schwarz. The 

 name minutus, at first given to this species, is preoccupied by 

 that of M. Renter for a species found at Singapore. 



29. Agalliastes obliquus. New sp. 



Black, polished, form similar to that of A. simplex. Head wide, the 

 eyes prominentlj r projecting beyond the sides of the pronotum, occipital 

 rim of head elevated, face highly polished, prominently convex; antennae 

 moderately long, black, the second joint thicker, but not as long as the 

 third and fourth united ; rostrum black at base and tip, piceous on the mid 

 dle, reaching to behind the middle coxoe. Pronotum a little wider than 

 long, minutely and obsoletely wrinkled, moderately convex, indented on 

 the middle, the callosities like two geminate raised dots, the humeral an 

 gles prominently rounded, surface in front of the posterior margin some 

 times marked with a lunate yellow spot; scutellum moderately convex, 

 obsoletely wrinkled. Wing-covers dull black, minutely pubescent, and 

 punctate, with a broad yellow stripe tapering backwards and occupying a 

 large part of the clavus, margin of the corium broadly yellow, forming a 

 stripe which widens behind and nearly covers thecuneus; membrane long 

 in the male, shorter and wider in the female, pale, but marked from the 

 base out with a dark cloud-like spot. Legs long, yellow, the posterior 

 femora and all of the coxae black, excepting tips of the latter, tarsi tinged 

 with piceous. Beneath black, polished. 



Length to tip of venter, 2-2^ millim; width of base of pronotum, about 

 i millim. 



