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VOL. XXVI. LONDON, APRIL, 1894. No. 4. 



NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.— NO. VII. 



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



1. Idiocerus amgemus, n. sp. 



Allied to /. suturalis, but smaller. Female of a uniform pale yellow 

 colour, pronotum and scutellum tin gedwith fulvous or ferruginous, the 

 former with a spot behind the inner angle of each eye and a median vitta, 

 pale. Mesonotum with a black band bordering the scutellum, at least 

 posteriorly ; extreme tip of scutellum yellow. Elytra hyaline very 

 slightly tinged with fulvous, becoming smoky toward the apex ; nervures 

 pale yellow. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent. Eyes rufous. Oviduct 

 ferruginous. 



In this species the front is more strongly narrowed apically with the 

 sides nearly rectilinear beyond the antennge, not so distinctly arcuated as 

 in /. suturalis ; and the clypeus is less expanded at apex. The last 

 ventral segment is very feebly rounded behind, not distinctly advanced at 

 the middle as in siitziralis. In one example the pronotal markings are 

 obsolete and the oviduct pale. Length, 5 mm. 



Described from two female examples. One taken near Los Angeles 

 Cal., by Mr. D. W. Coquillett. The other, a more deeply coloured speci- 

 men, was sent me by Mr. C. P. Gillette, as an inhabitant of the mountains of 

 northern Colorado. Mr. Coquillett's specimen came labelled Idiocerus 

 atnoemus. Uhler., a M.S. name which is quite appropriate to this pretty 

 insect. 



2. Pediopsis sordida, ;/. sp. 



Closely allied to P. tristis, but smaller. Male : Greenish grey, 

 closely and coarsely punctured with blackish ; punctures on the face 

 irregularly disposed ; those of the pronotum deep, elongated and oblique, 

 but rather less conspicuous than in insignis and tristis ; median line dis- 

 tinct. Scutellum pale with the basal angles commonly fuscous. 

 Elytra deep smoky-brown ; nervures strong, concolorous. Abdo- 



