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Two new Fulgorids (Hemiptera-Homoptera). 



BY ABRAM HERBERT MANEE. 

 Amyele vernalis n. sp. 



Length from tip of head to end of body 14 mm.; head 5 mm., ex- 

 panse 27 mm. ; head brown, prolonged to nearly twice its width at base 

 and tapering from base to outer third where from a slight broadening 

 it tapers to rounded point; upper side of head with carinal edges and 

 two carinae which approach from front run parallel to first third, then 

 separate to outward curve as if to enclose the strong carina of pro- 

 thorax : under side of head with carinal edges and strong central car- 

 ina ; eyes large, longer than wide; legs brown, hollowed on inside, hind 

 tibiae with five spines ; abdomen above black centered broadly with 

 orange tipped with brown, under side brown sprinkled lighter; fore 

 wings brown, veins prominent ; hind wings clear, broadly based with 

 pink and tipped with fuscous. 



Southern Pines, N. C. Early April. Five specimens, one 

 at National Museum sent by author, one in possession of Dr. 

 E. B. Wilson of Columbia University, one collected by R. S. 

 Woglum and two in possession of author. 



Helicoptera pinornm n. sp. 



Length 9 mm., expanse 20 mm. ; eye round, in diameter 54 mm., 

 )4 mm., round-pointed, carina]- edged, a central canal formed by 2 parallel 

 carinae; prothorox with three carinae forming similar aspect to upper 

 and under sides of head ; under side of head piceous with broad ivory- 

 white band which includes the extruded antennae and suffuses bases 

 of legs; legs brown, hind tibiae with a median spine; bodv b- 

 upper part light ; fore wings brown, sprinkled lighter, and light spot at 

 apical third of edge, veins prominent; under wings clear with tips 

 smoky. 



Southern Pines, N. C. September. Four or five specimens 

 taken by author. 



A New Staphylinid (Col.) Genus from Arizona. 



BY A. FENYES, Pasadena, Cal. 



Mr. G. Beyer of New York has sent me lately two speci- 

 mens (one in fragments) of a very odd-looking- beetle, which 

 evidently belongs to a new genus of the subfamily Aleocharinae 

 (Staphylinidae) . Mr. Beyer writes me that he took four speci- 

 mens in the Rincon Mountains in Arizona (5,000 feet above 

 sea level) in August, 1907; the beetles came to the camp-light 

 with a number of wasps of the same size and color, the two 

 insects being scarcely distinguishable when on wing. 



