PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF WASHINGTON 



VOL. XV _ 1913 _ No. 1 

 DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 



BY OTTO HEIDEMAN 



Stal in 1873 founded the genus Leptodictya, 1 based on five spe- 

 cies from Brazil which species he had described previously in his 

 Hemiptera fauna of Rio Janeiro, 1858. Years later Dr. G. C. 

 Champion 2 described two more species, collected in Guatemala 

 and Panama; besides, he found in the former State specimens of 

 Herrich Schaeffer's species, Monanthia tabida, which was described 

 1839 from Mexico. This species, unknown to Stal, Dr. Champion 

 placed also in the genus Leptodictya, and added to Stal's diagnosis 

 of the genus a few more new characters, of which the most im- 

 portant one may be quoted herewith: "The expanded opaque 

 margins of the pronotum are formed by two layers of membrane 

 meeting on the outer edge, this being easily seen when the insect 

 is viewed sideways." 



The genus Leptodictya has a wide range of distribution, from 

 the neotropical region into the nearctic region. At the present 

 time two new species have been found, and as they have not 

 been recorded before from the United States, a description may 

 follow herewith: 



Leptodictya plana, new species. 



Body elongate, oblong, extremely flat. Head short and narrow, with 

 five rather long spines, two in front close together and one above them in 

 the middle, the first three spines reaching to the base of second antennal 

 joint; two other spines originate' from the basal part of the head, projecting 

 a little upwardly; the buccal laminae broad, abruptly extended beyond the 

 head, rounded at tip, the hind part somewhat narrower and rcflexed ;it 

 the edge, finely reticulated. Rostrum hardly reaching the middle coxae. 



1 Stal, Enuni"r;itio Hemipterorum, part m, pp. 121-127 (1873). 



2 Champion, Biologia Centrali Americana n, p. 23 (1897-1901). 



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