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Eutettix cinctus 0. & B. 



(PL 13, figs. 7-8.) 



Eutettix cinctus O. & B., I'roc. Dav. Acad. Sci., vii, p. 97, 1898. 



Eutettix jvcunda Van D., Psyche, vi, p. 307, 1892. 



Eutettix cincta Osb., 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 530, 1905. 



Eutettix (Mesamia) cincta Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sol., xii, p. 64, pi. 4, fig. 1 1907. 



Eutettix cincta DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 67, 1916. 



Eutettix cinctus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 665, 1917. 



Eutettix cincta Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 77, 1919. 



Form: Rather large and robust. Length, 5.25 to 6.25 mm. Vertex 

 one-third longer on middle than next the eye, two and one-half times or 

 over as wide as long, a distinct transverse depression just back of the 

 broadly rounding apex, margin subacute. Pronotum over twice as wide 

 as long, lateral margins short, humeral margins long, posterior margin 

 distinctly concave, disc transversely wrinkled. Elytra moderately long 

 and broad. 



Color: Vertex greenish-yellow, apex with reddish tinge. Pronotum 

 yellowish or greenish, irregularly marked with brown. Scutellum dirty- 

 yellow, a small pair of black spots on disc and a larger pair on each 

 lateral margin. Elytra milky, nervures reddish-brown, a large oblique 

 black spot on the base of clavus of each elytron, a broad, brownish band 

 on posterior half of the clavus and sloping back to the costa, costal vein- 

 lets broadly black. Face color of vertex above, dark below. 



External genitalia : Female, last ventral segment one-half longer 

 than the preceding, lateral margins strongly narrowed posteriorly, pos- 

 terior margin sinuate on either side of the slightly produced median half; 

 pygofers broad and short, slightly exceeded by the ovipositor, quite spiny 

 on distal half. Male, valve broad but short, triangular, apex very ob- 

 tuse; plates large, spiny margins concavely narrowing to upturned apices 

 'which exceed the pygofers. 



Internal male genitalia: Styles large, with an unusually long process 

 to the connective, very strongly hooked distally; connective very long, 

 Y-shaped but with the branches close together, the stem and the branches 

 about equal length ; oedagus with an interior process to membrane of anal 

 tube directed cephalad, and two sword-shaped caudal processes, one di- 

 rectly above the other, the dorsal one slightly broader. 



