280 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.— NO. VI. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



i. Amalopota Fitchi, n. sp. 



Closely allied to A, Uhleri. Smaller ; elytra smoky, about twice 

 banded with white ; nervures carmine, ocelli apparently wanting. 

 Length, 6 mm. 



Male : Vertex shorter and broader posteriorly than in Uhleri, hind 

 margin very feebly emarginate, apex of the pronotum not advanced be- 

 yond the base of the lateral keels ; frontal keel, viewed from the side, 

 broader and more strongly rounded, with a more conspicuous notch at 

 the base of the clypeus than in Uhleri. Antennae ligulate, slightly nar- 

 rowed at base, the sides thickened and parallel beyond, setigerous notch 

 deeper than in Uhleri. Eyes very feebly emarginate below. Pronotum, 

 viewed from above, less acutely angled before and exhibiting a slightly 

 thicker edge than in Uhleri, the expanded sides subquadrate with rounded 

 angles. Rostrum only attaining the apex of the hind coxae. Elytra 

 similar in form to those of Uhleri, the neuration nearly the same but with 

 fewer apical areoles, these being ten in number from the tip of the clavus 

 to the apex of the subcostal nervure ; subapical areoles six, of which the 

 first (outer) is large and oblong, the second small and triangular, and the 

 third the longest ; basal nervures four, long. 



Colour pale yellowish-white, more obscure on the mesonotum and 

 abdomen ; sides of the face with a transverse carmine band between the 

 base of the antennae and the eye which is extended along the sides of 

 the thorax where it becomes darker ; abdomen sanguineous above, the 

 genital segments brown. Eyes and tip of the rostrum black ; antennae 

 reddish-brown, the thickened edges darker. Elytra blackish-fuscous ; a 

 basal elongated yellowish spot on the costa including the rounded elytral 

 appendage ; beyond this are two rounded dots, a broad transverse median 

 band not touching the costa, and a large angular spot on the third and 

 fourth subapical areoles sending a branch to the apex of the costa 

 and another to the middle of the apical margin, whitish-hyaline ; narrow 

 costal area white with four brown spots, the stigmatal deeper and crossed 

 at apex by a heavy carmine veinlet ; nervures carmine-red, heavier 

 about the stigmatal region, around the apex alternated with white ; costa 

 and a line on the commissure near the apex of the clavus, yellowish. 

 Wings whitish-hyaline, with slender sanguineous nervures. 



