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A yEw sPEciEs OF Pachycysta {Hem.-Het.)'^^\ 

 Bv Carl J. Drake. 



The genus Pacinjcijstd , founded hy Champion in Transactions of the 

 Entomological Societij of London, 1898, p. 69 and 60, plaie II, fig. 6 

 and 6«, is represented by a single species, P. diaphana Champ., from the 

 Amazons, S. A. Among numerous American Tingidae received from the 

 National Natural Hislory Muséum, Paris, France, for détermination, there 

 are tvvo spécimens of an undescribed species o( Pachijcusta from Bolivia, 

 S. A. The insecl is named in honor of Dr. G. G. Champion , who has donc 

 such excellent work with Iropical and neotropical American Tingidae. 



Pachycysta Chainpioni nov. sp. (lig. a and b). 



Easily distinguished from its only congener, diaphana Champ., by its 

 lai'ger size, the najrower shell-shaped paranota.and the much widencd 

 discoidal area distally. In the génotype, the discoidal area is uarrowed 

 towards the apex. 



Length, li.08 mm.; widlh, 9,. 6 mm. 



General color light teslaleous, the areolas mostly hyaline. Body. legs 

 and aniennae light ferruginous, the apical segment of the lalter almost 

 enliroly fuscous. Hostrtim very long, reaching almost to ihe posterior 

 niai'gin ol' the second ventral segment. Pronotum pale reddish hrown, 

 (ini'lv piinctured, tricarinate, each carina strongly foiiaceons and wilh a 

 single low of hyaline areolas, the latéral carina' curved inwardly and 

 parlly covercd by the base of the hood ; the posterior extension dislinclly 

 reliculaled. Paranoïa very broad , sheil-sliaped, nuich more nariowly 

 rounded externallv (haii in diajiliniin. Ilood extendiiig almost lo the 

 middie of the pronotum, rather highly raised and nanowed towards 

 the crest. 



Aniennae densely pilose, the first segment about two and a half limes 

 the length of the second, the ihird two and a half limes the lenglh of the 



O Contribulions from Department ol" Entomology, New York Stale Collège of 

 Foppstiy, Symruso, N. Y., U. S. A. 



