200 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOME NEW JASSID.'*: FROM THE SOUTHWEST. 



BY E. D. BALL, FORT COLLINS, COLO. 



Phlepsiiis iascivius, n. sp. — Resembling alius, slightly larger and 

 lighter coloured ; margin of the vertex black either side of a light tip. 

 Length 6 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Head as wide as the pronotum, vertex depressed at the base, anteri- 

 orly convex and rounding to the front, the apex slightly angled, hardly half 

 longer than at eye, two and one-half times wider than long, more than half 

 as long as the pronotum, front broad, convex in both diameters, round- 

 ingly narrowing below ; clypeus with the margins straight ; elytra rather 

 stout and straight, flaring behind, the claval nervures parallel, not united. 



Colour : soiled yellowish white closely inscribed with brownish fus- 

 cous. Vertex with an irregular black cloud either side of the white apex, 

 back of this a white crescent, behind which the surface is irrorate with 

 pale fulvous brown, a semi-pupillate spot either side at the base ; face 

 heavily irrorate with fuscous, the black clouds of the vertex uniting below 

 the apex, a few light arcs on the front and a light band across the clypeus 

 and lorse ; pronotum closely irrorate with fuscous ; scutellum washed with 

 dirty fulvous, a pair of black points on the margin on either side ; elytra 

 milk white, finely inscribed with fuscous, which is not in irregular lines 

 except on costal and apical margins. 



Genitalia: ultimate ventral segment of the female very long, the pos- 

 terior margin truncate, the median third with a pair of very slight, evenly- 

 rounded lobes, between which there is a distinct notch ; male valve very 

 broad, obtusely triangular, plates three times the length of the valve, broad 

 at base, roundingly narrowing half their length, then produced as bluntly 

 pointed divergent lobes. 



Described from eight females and four males taken at Holly, Pueblo, 

 and Fort Collins, Colo., and Kimball, Neb. Part of the Fort Collins 

 specimens came from back in the mountain gulches. 



Phlepsiiis ijirpiculus, n. sp. — Resembling cinereus, but more heavily 

 irrorate. Pale straw yellow, irrorate with fulvous brown. Length, ^ 

 7 mm., % 6 mm. ; width, $ 2 mm., ^ i.c mm. 



Head as wide as the pronotum, vertex but little longer on middle 

 than against eye, half as long as the pronotum, surface convex, passage to 

 the front roundingly angulate ; front broad above, feebly convex, almost 

 angled at the antennae ; clypeus narrow just before the base ; elytra long. 



