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Mt. Balsam, near Asheville, in July, by Mr. J. W. Palmer, Jr. 

 of Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. E. B. vSouthwiek has sent me examples 

 from the vicinity of New York city and I have taken it about 

 Buffalo in August. 



13. THAMNOTETTIX AUREOLA, 11. sp. 



Allied to Th. fiavocapitata but larger with a more pointed vertex. 

 Length 5 mm. 



Vertex nearly y 2 longer on the middle than next the eye. Clypeus a 

 little expanded toward its broadly rounded apex. Color pale whitish yellow, 

 deeper on the abdomen ; vertex fulvous ; eyes rufous, pronotum and scutel- 

 lum deep fulvous-brown; elytra subhyaline, washed with clear greenish 

 yellow at base and bearing on the sutural margin a large ill-defined smoky 

 patch, which may be extended along the suture to the tip and become 

 broken by the turgid yellow apex of the outer claval nervures, nervures of 

 the corium slender, yellowish. Tergum blackish on the disc; beneath and 

 the feet immaculate. Valve obtuse, triangular, the sides a little concave ; 

 plates rather large, subacute, fringed with long white bristles, Wings faintly 

 smoky-hyaline, iridescent, with brown nervures. 



California. Described from a single male example received 

 from Mr. D. W. Coquillett labelled Thamnotettix aureola, Uhl. 

 It is a beautiful little species quite characteristic of this genus 

 which seems to be well represented on the Pacific Coast. 



TINOBREGMUS, n. g. 



Allied to /ass us, Head narrow, short conical, obtuse. Vertex narrow, 

 widened anteriorly, and expanded posteriorly behind the eyes, tumid before. 

 Ocelli on the vertex near its apex. Front rather strongly elongated ; tem- 

 ples very narrow. Eyes large, Clypeus large ; Cheeks long and expanded 

 below ; lorae small and narrow. Pronotum short, wider than the head, the 

 anterior and posterior margins subparallel scutellum very small, scarcely 

 apparant. Elytra abbreviated, reaching the middle of the abdomen, first 

 sector forked before its middle, the inner branch with one transverse nervure 

 connecting it with the second sector, apical areoles five, the outer much 

 larger and formed by the forking of the outer branch of the first sector. 

 Wings rudimentary. Rostrum short, scarcely surpassing the elongated 

 clypeus. Posterior tibia; armed with numerous stout spines. 



This genus is remarkable for its very small scutellum and 

 its elongated face. The head is narrower than the pronotum 

 and the eyes are angled behind leaving a triangular area either 

 side at the base of the vertex. The pronotum is very short and 

 the base of the front is reflected onto the apex of the vertex 

 leaving the ocelli distinctly superior. This character and the 

 elongated face seem to connect this genus with the Tettigonido- 

 near genus Eucanthus but its true position is probably near 

 Jassus. 



