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The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. XI, No. 3, 



Avhere there was too much mixture of various plants to warrant 

 the fixing of the host plant. For the other records no definite 

 food plant has been given, so that we cannot assume to name the 

 host species. 



This form agrees closely with the others of the fasciatus group 

 in the cruciate marking upon the dorsum, making with these 

 forms a distinct subdivision of the genus. The\- differ somewhat 

 from the other members, but in view of the venation and the 

 head characters it seems hardly desirable to separate them from 

 the genus. 



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Scaphoideus fasciatus Osb. 

 Jour. Cine. Soc. X. H., Vol. XIX. p. 190. 



This species described in 1900 from Port au Prince Haiti, has 

 been recognized by \"an Duzee from Florida and is probably best 

 retained as a distinct species, although it is certainly closely 

 related to the succeeding species described to cover the southern 

 form hitherto known as sanctus. In this species the head is 

 rather short, the points at the tip of the vertex minute, the trans- 

 verse band on the face double and continued laterally on the 

 pleurae, and the length is about four millimeters. 



There is a specimen in the National Museum bearing a Ms. 

 (apparently unpublished) name from Granada which agrees closely 

 with this species. Van Duzee records are for Crescent City and 

 St. Petersburg, Fla. 



Scaphoideus neglectus n. sp. 



Scaphoideus sanctus, Van Duzee. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. XII, p. 300. 



Closely resembles fasciatus and cruciatus, but is larger and 

 with the vertex more angular than the former, smaller, with 

 different markings on vertex, face, femora, and genital plates than 

 the latter. Length four to four and one-half millimeters. 



Vertex rounded, bluntly angular, about one and one-half times as long 

 at center as next to the eye; the front broad at base, narrowing very vni- 

 formly and rapidly to the clypeus; clypeus widening slightly to the apex; 

 lorae moderate, rounded, not reaching the border of the cheeks, the border 

 of the cheeks slightly sinuate; pronotum strongly arched in front, truncate, 

 or very slightly emarginate on hind border; elytra with the venation as in 

 related species, the reflexed costal veins distinctly and about equally 

 oblique. 



Color, whitish ivory tinged with gra^- and marked with black and 

 brown; the vertex with transverse black bands just in front of the middle, a 

 pair of minute, almost obsolete, black points near the apex, and four black 

 points on the hind border; the front with two black arcs next the vertex end 

 a black band from below the eyes across the front just beneath the anten- 

 nae; the apical portion of lorae and clypeus and sub-margin of cheeks blec k 

 or dark brown; the anterior femora black above, yellowish at base rnd 

 apex and beneath, middle femora yellow with a black annulus at the tip; 

 hind femora yellow, hind tibiae yellow with black points; tarsi j^ellow an u- 

 lated with black; pronotum ivory white in front, gray brown behind, ^\it.h 



