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more like the females of the two species. Tibiae in both sexes with 

 bristles about as in alpicola, but with mid and hind tarsi more spin}' 

 beneath, which attains its greatest development in the mid basitarsi 

 of the male, where there are 10-12 striking spines in each of t\vo rows. 

 Wings as in alpicola. Size the same. 



One male, one female, Square-Top Mt, Grant, (ieneva 

 Park, Colorado, July 24, 1916. Altitude 11,500 feet. Collected 

 by L. (). Jackson. Types in the Bureau of the Biological 

 Survey, Washington, D. C. They were sent me for studv by 

 J. R. Malloch. 



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A New Membracid on Cypress (Homop. ). 



By \Y. D. FUNKHOUSER, Cascadilla School, Ithaca, 



New York. 



(Plate XI.) 



Through the courtesy of Mr. H. H. Knight, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, I have been permitted to examine a series of specimens 

 of a very interesting species of Membracidae collected from 

 cypress in Louisiana in the summer of 1917. 



The insect has apparently not been described and is of inter- 

 est not only because it is the first membracid recorded on this 

 host but also because it proves to be another representative of 

 the genus Stictolobits erected by Metcalf in K)i6* to accom- 

 modate Membracis sitbnlata Say. 



This genus is peculiar in showing the pronotal characters of 

 a Cyrtolobus and the wing structure of a Stictoccphala. The 

 anterior elevation of the pronotum is obtusely rounded as in 

 Cyrtolobus and the general appearance of the insect suggests 

 that genus. The forewings, however, are entirely free, as in 

 Stictoccphala, although there are no indications of carinate 

 sides on the metopidium. 



The series consists of thirty-seven specimens. Seven males 

 and thirteen females were collected at Bogalousa, Louisiana, 

 on June 15, 1917, and eleven males and six females were 

 taken at Colyell, Louisiana, on June 16. All were found on 

 cypress. 



* Metcalf, Z. P. The Rediscovery of Membracis subulata Say, with 

 a Description of a New Genus (Homop.). Entomological Xcu ^ Jan- 

 uary, 1916, Vol. xxvii, No. I, 1-3 pp., PI. 1. 



