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Stenocranus rostrifrons Crawford. 

 (1914 Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., xlvi, p. 591, two figs.) 



"Length of body, 3.6 mm.; width of vertex, 0.20; length to apex of 

 head, 0.72; width of frons, 0.21; antennas I, 0.07; II, 0.21. General 

 color yellowish orange; frons with a slender black stripe near apex 

 of above; antennas lineated narrowly with black beneath or in front. 



Head long, narrower than prothorax, strongly carinate between 

 eyes, produced almost two-thirds of its length beyond eyes, curved 

 down somewhat and resembling very closely a bird's beak, acute 

 at apex; vertex very elongate, narrow, about four times as long as 

 broad, narrowed anteriorly; median carina almost wanting; frons 

 elongate, broadest below, not strongly carinate; eyes rather small; 

 ocelli conspicuous. Antennas not as long as width of head between 

 antennal sockets, II about three times as long as I. 



Thorax slender, long, not strongly carinate; pronotum about two and 

 a half times as long as scutellum, broadly emarginate behind. Calcar 

 typical, pubescence slight. Elytra long, strongly attenuate at base, 

 more rhomboidal apically than in congenors, maculate on membrane 

 veins; venation somewhat different from that of congenors. 



Female ovipositor sheath somewhat broadened, about midway 

 between foliaceous and cylindrical. 



Described from one female from Habana, Cuba (Baker). 

 Type-specimen. — In collection of Pomona College, Cal." 



Stenocranus maculipes Berg. 

 (1879 Hemipt. Argentina, p. 223). 



This species was placed in the genus Delphax by Berg but 

 without question should be assigned to Stenocranus, at least 

 until again recognized. I am including here a translation from 

 the original Latin description: 



"Female: Fuscous, here and there variegated with testaceous, 

 elytra and legs testaceous, the former with fuscous veins, and infuscated 

 at interior margin, the latter obscurely spotted and banded with fuscous; 

 hind part of head narrower than pronotum, produced beyond the eyes; 

 vertex longer by half than its basal width, somewhat narrowed upwards, 

 margins strongly elevated, median carina lacking, the two lateral caringe 

 meeting at an acute point; frons and clypeus tricarinate, the former 

 scarcely curving on both sides before the middle, then very slightly 

 widened towards apex, banded with white in front of the middle and at 

 apex; clypeus white at base; first antennal segment somewhat com- 

 pressed, second somewhat longer and more slender, the latter strongly 

 tuberculate, above and below a little dilated; pro- and mesonotum 

 obscurely fuscous, tricarinate, the former widened behind, carinse 

 distinct, rather pale, the latter with lateral carinse somewhat obsolete, 



