274 NEARCTIC ERYTHRONEURA (hOMOPTERA) 



Length, 2.83 mm.; vertex: LM 8, LE 3.5, WA 13, WP 20.5, OA 6.5, OP 

 12, OH 16; pronotum: L12, W 21; tegmen 13-56. Measurements from a 

 female; Riley County, Kansas, July, [U. S. N. M.] 



Other spechnens (2.7 to 2.83 mm.) from Riley County, Kansas; Wichita 

 Falls and Victoria, Texas, and Higley and Graham Mountains, Arizona. 

 [IT. S. N. M., Biological Survey.]. 



Erythroneura vulnerata var. fulmina new variety 



Scutellum and anterior parts with color markings chiefly smoky to black, 

 pale areas much reduced; tegmina with ground color opaciue whitish, color 

 markings pinkish to maroon, ground color of apical cells black. A most 

 beautiful variety, the dark fore and hind parts contrasted with the paler 

 mid-section, the latter in turn colored with beautifully contrasting milky 

 white and dark red, the costa flushed and the sectors and first cross-vein 

 dotted with bright pinkish red. 



Length, 2.97 mm.; vertex: LM 7, LE 3, WA 12, WP 20.5, OA 6, OP 12.5, 

 OH 16.; pronotum: L 11, W 21; tegmen 13-63. 



Type — 9 ; Plummer's Island, Maryland, January G, 1907, (A. K, 

 Fisher), [W. L. M.]. Allotype— cT; same data. 



Erythroneura vulnerata var. decora new variety 



C^olor markings smoky to black, pale areas conspicuous by contrast, and 

 much larger than in variety vulnerata, vertex pale yellow with two broad 

 black vittae inclosing a narrow median pale one, pronotum with median and 

 two discal pale yellow spots, sometimes merged, spots and dashes of same 

 color near lateral and anterior margins; median scutellar vitta broad and 

 basal triangles paler within; tegminal pale areas large, that on base of clavus 

 conspicuous, pale yellow; costal plaque i)ale yellow. 



Length, 2.83 mm.; vertex: LM 7, LE 3, WA 12, WP 18.5, OA 6, OP 11, 

 OH 16; pronotum: L 10.5, W 20; tegmen 12-58. 



Type— 9 ; Plummer's Island, Maryland, May 9, 1913, (W. L. 

 McAtee), [W. L. M.]. Paratypes — same locality, June and Nov- 

 ember, (W. L. M.). 



Erythroneura vulnerata var. niger Gillette 



Typhhicybn pulnrntla var. vigcr. Gillette, C. P. American Leaf-ho])p('rs 



of the Subfamily Typhlocybinae. Proceedings of the U. S. National 



Museum, xx, 1898, p. 765. [Type No. 3452, U. S. N. M., which is labelled 



Washington, D. C] 

 Typhlocyba nigridorsum. De Long, D. M. The Leafhoppcrs or Jassoidea 



of Tennessee. Bui. No. 17, Tennessee State Board of Entomology, June, 



1916, ]). 110. [Clarksville, Tennessee.] 



('olor above chiefly smoky brown to black, vertex and pronotum eadi with 

 a median streak and two dis("il spots, or the latter wanting, and scutellum with 

 a median streak, pale yellow; pale areas of tegmina much rethiced, a large 

 spot at inner side of base of clavus ami (he cnslal plaque pale yellow, or llie 

 latter opa(m<! whitish. 



