June, 1905.] New North American Fulgoridae 375 



clavus except veins, costal space and portions of discal spaces, basal por- 

 tion of abdominal segments, plates, border of ovipositor, tip of rostrum^ 

 tarsal claws, black, legs tinged with fuscous. The males similarly colored 

 but brown or blackish markings are nearly obsolete on abdominal segments, 

 except fourth and fifth and sides of pygofer. 



Male genitalia, hooks strongly curved upward, narrowed to acute apex: 

 which is quite brown or black. 



Specimens are in hand from Mr. A. F. Satterthwaite, Harris- 

 burg, Pa., who collected them on Spatterdock (Nuphar sp.) at 

 St. George's, Del. 

 Megamelanus spartini. n. sp. 



Elongate, slender, female light straw color Male with elytra and 

 beneath black. Length of female, 3 mm., male, 2.5 mm. 



Head distinctly produced, vertex produced in front of eyes, nearly 

 twice as long as pronotum, twice as long as greatest length of eye. Lateral 

 margin elevated, central carinae prominent, forked anteriorly. The 

 carinae of fork becoming obsolete near lateral margin, front elongate twice 

 as long as wide, elliptical, central carinae prominent, lateral carinae evenly 

 curved from base to clypeus. Clypeus elongate, triangular, median 

 carinae obsolete, antennae minute, pronotum slightly wider than head^ 

 carinae slightly divergent, elytra narrow, nearly parallel veins prominent^ 

 minutely setigerous. 



Color of female stramineus, tmicolorous, male with vertex, upper part 

 of front, eyes, side of head, pronotum, scutellum, and hind tarsi stram- 

 ineus, otherwise pitch black. 



Genitalia — female, plates elongate, male, pygofer obliquely emar- 

 ginate. Hooks divergent, narrowing to apex. 



A number of specimens of this minute species were taken by 

 beating the heads of a rank beach grass (Spartina patens) on 

 the shore of Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor, Aug. IS and 

 19, 1904, and two females and fifteen males collected bv Mr. J. S. 

 Hine, Bay Ridge, Aug. 7, 1899. 



I found mv specimens only by beating the blossoms and the 

 females especially bear a striking resemblance to the anthers of 

 the blossom of this grass so it would seem that they get a very 

 distinct protection from their size and appearance. When 

 beaten into the net with the abundant chaff from the blossoms 

 they were very difficult to recognize until they began to move. 

 The colors of the male do not seem to be so distinctly correlated 

 with their habitat. The species is apparently pretty closely 

 related to elongatus Ball described from Florida and I suspect 

 that species will prove to have a similar habitat. Elongatus was 

 taken in abundance at New Orleans, La., in March, by Prof. Hine 

 which would indicate that it hibernates as adult. 



Stobaera pallida n. sp. 



Superficial!}^ resembles tricarinata Say but has lighter vertex, front 

 and pronotum much broader, sides of front not parallel, antennae flattened 

 and elytra pictured, veins ivory white, pustulate, setae very minute or 

 wanting. Length female, 4.5 mm. ; male, 4 mm. 



Head wider than pronotum, vertex nearly twice as wide as long, lateral 

 carinae slightly divergent, disc deeply impressed each side of central 

 carina, central fovea small but deep, anterior margin straight, fi^ont broad,. 



