44 TETTIGID.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



Length of body, i6 mm.; pronotum, ig mm. : hind femora, 

 9 mm. 



Locality, Jamaica. 



This interesting species described from a female example 

 received in good state of preservation from Mr. Malcolm 

 Burr, of East Grinstead, England. 



CHORIFHYLLUM RHOMBEUM L. 



Head granulate. Pronotum densely punctate; dorsum 

 largely foliaceo-dilate, posteriorly scarcely extended as far as 

 the hind femora; viewed in profile very high, gradually sub- 

 expanded backward, posteriorly suddenly sinuato-truncate, 

 here being nearly perpendiculaily truncate, below the midi^le 

 obtuse sublobate; dorsal top margin straight, posteriorly obtuse 

 roughened, scarcely declined toward the front. The anteriorly 

 produced part above the head suddenly subangulate, nearly 

 straight, obtusely sinuate and from here strongly declined, 

 the inferior margin of this produced part obtusely rounded. 

 Anterior femora above foliaceo-carinate, below and behind 

 the middle provided with an obtuse lobe; intermediate femora 

 above carinate, below back of the middle provided with a 

 smaller lobe; posterior femora above dilated, dorsal margin 

 behind the middle suddenly reduced. 



Body length, 2, ii mm. 



Locality, Jamaica. 



Cicada rhombea, Baker, Phil. Trans., Vol. 54, p. 55, pi. 



6(1764). 



Cicada rhombea, Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. XIL, pi. i, p. 



704 (1767)- 



Membracis rhombea, Eabr., Ent. Syst., IV., 8, 2, Syst. 



Rhyng., p. 7. 



Acridium (Hymenotes) rhombeum, de Hann, Bijdrag., p. 

 165, pi. 12, fig. II. 



Hymenotes compressus, Stal. Recensio, Orth., L, p. 153 



(1873)- 



Choriphyllum rhombeum. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt., Brit. 



Mus., v., 84s (1871), Jamaica; Thomas, Rep. U. S. Geol. 



