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CicadeUidcc of South Carolina 



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Genitalia: d^ valve large, shield-shaped, fuscous on the base, the 

 tip pale. Plates rather long, triangular, the outer margins set with short 

 s]3ines. 9 ultimate ventral segment tapering from the base, slightly 

 produced and feebly notched on the middle, the outer angles rounding. 



Length: cf 3.5 mm., 9 4 mm. 



Described from seven males and two females from Orange- 

 burg, Denmark, Marion (H. C. Eagerton), Walterboro (G. M. 

 Anderson"). Ridgeland (L. L. Ferebee), and Isle of Palms. 



Fig. 2. Pl.\tymetopius p.\rvus n. sp. 



a, Dorsal view of female; b, Lateral view 



of head; c. Face; d, Female genitalia; 



e. Elytron; f, Male genitalia. 



Fig. 3. Pl.\tymetopius c.\rolixus n. sp. 



a, Dorsal view of female; b, Lateral view 



of head; c, Face; d. Female genitalia; 



e, Elytron; f, Male genitalia. 



Platymetopius frontalis Van Duzee. Orangeburg, Denmark, 



Marion (H. C. Eagerton), Walterboro (G. M. Anderson), 



St. George, Charleston. 

 Platymetopius carolinus n. sp. (Fig. 3). Resembling P. aciitiis 



Say in form, but somewhat smaller and with a much 



shorter vertex. 



Vertex short and little more acute than a right angle, sides some- 

 what convex. Posterior margin of the head strongly emarginate. 

 Posterior margin of the pronotum truncate, humeral angles distinct. 

 Elytra broadly rounding on the apex; the appendix rather narrow. 



Coloration: vertex dull testaceous with an interrupted, trans^•erse 

 vitta midway between the eyes and the apex. A narrow longitudinal 



