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Acurhinus pyrops. (Crumb). 



Deltocephalus pyrops Crumb Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. Vol. DeLong Bulletin, Tenn. 



Exp. Sta. 

 Platymetopius pyrops VanDuzee Catalogue, 1917. Lathrop, Leaf-Hoppers, South 



Carolina Bull. S. C. Exp. Sta., 1919. 



This Species which was described as a Deltocephalus and later 

 transferred by VanDuzee to Platymetopius, has been in my 

 collection for some years. It has always seemed to me out of 

 place in either of these genera and especially on account of the 

 deep furrow below the vertex margin, and the cylindro-conic 

 front to have closer affinity with the Dorydine series. 



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Fig. 4. Acurhinus pyrops. a, dorsal view of female; b, female genitalia; c, male 

 genitalia. (From drawings by Mr. J. D. Smith.) 



It seems clearly congeneric with maculatus which perhaps 

 has the Dorydine fascies a little more pronounced but the two 

 are so close in many structural points that their resemblance 

 can hardly be ascribed to convergence. 



The species was described from Tennessee has been reported 

 from South Carolina and I have specimens from Southern 

 Illinois through the kindness of Mr. C. A. Hart. 



