132 ASHMEAD 



Family JASSHXE. 



Tribe Deltocephalini. 



Genus Deltocephalus Burmeister. 



DELTOCEPHALUS ABDOMINALIS (Fabricius). 



Cercopis bicolor FABRICIUS, Ent. Syst. , iv, 40, 1 794. 



Cercopis abdoininalis FABRICIUS, Syst. Rhyn., 98, 1803. 



Cicada abdominalis FALLEN, Hem. Suec., n, 37, 1829. ZETTERSTEDT, Ins. 



Lappon., 290, 1840. 

 Jassus (Deltocephalus) abdominalis FLOR., Rhync. Liol., n, 249, 1860. 



GERMAR, Faun. Ins. Eur., fasc. 17, tab. 19. KIRSCHBAUM, Die Cicad. 



v. Wiesbaden u. Frankfurt, 129, 1868. 

 Deltocephalus abdominalis FIEBER, Verh. zool. -bot. Gesell. Wien, xix, 215, 



1869. J. SAHLBERG, Nat. Fenn., xn, 328. EDWARDS, Syn. Brit. 



Homop., 44, 148. MELICHAR, Cicad. v. Mittel. Eur., 140, 1896. 



Popof Island, Shumagin Islands, July 7. 



DELTOCEPHALUS HARRIMANI sp. nov. 



Male. Length to tip of elytra 3.2 mm. Pale or light mushroom 

 brown, the mesonotum with at least three faint pale longitudinal lines, 

 the vertex with a pale median line and a hook-shaped line on each side, 

 the face with 7 or 8 transverse whitish lines interrupted medially ; the 

 thorax beneath, except the sutures and margins of the sclerites, and the 

 abdomen, except the apex of the penultimate and ultimate ventral seg- 

 ments and the apical margins of the dorsal segments, which are pale, 

 are smoky or blackish; the legs are pale, the front femora with a 

 brown annulus at base, the two last joints of the hind tarsi fuscous. 

 Elytra hyaline, the veins pale, the clavus with two oblong brown spots, 

 and an irregular series of brown dashes or spots, extending from the 

 middle discoidal cell forward to and enclosing the middle apical cell. 



Type. Cat. No. 6868, U. S. Nat. Mus., from Seldovia, Kenai 

 Peninsula, July 7- Three specimens. 



DELTOCEPHALUS EVANSI sp. nov. 



Male. Length to tip of elytra, which extend beyond tip of abdomen, 

 5 mm. Form of D. abdominalis (Fabr.), but slightly smaller and 

 pale greenish, the upper surface of the head, thorax, and the elytra im- 

 maculate, except two fuscous dashes at the middle of the angular head 

 and a slight curved line on each side extending from the dashes toward 

 the eyes ; frons with 6 or 7 transverse fuscous lines, these becoming 

 shorter and shorter, the seventh being a mere dot ; sutures of the face 

 and lora fuscous ; thorax at sides and beneath and the abdomen black- 

 ish ; some of the abdominal segments at apex are narrowly margined 

 with yellowish white ; while the legs are maculate with fuscous spots. 



