288 HEMIPTERA OF JAPAX—UHLER. vol.xix. 



APHROPHORA OBLIQUA, new species. 



Pale fiilvotestaceons, coated with j>i"ayish pubescence, form of A. aini, 

 Fallen. Vertex short, lunate, witli tlie apex a little triangular and re- 

 curved, the adjoining- margin pale and smooth, a transverse groove 

 crosses the line of the ocelli, and a depression exists behind the ocelli, 

 surface uneven punctate, dej^essed area curving- inward from the eye 

 pale; front moderately convex, acute at the summit of the fusiform 

 callous middle line, which is smooth and pale yellow, and with a 

 black suture ea(di side above, transverse ribs coarse, yellowish, with 

 the intervening- sutures blackish, punctate, and having tlie depression 

 at the apex closely punctate with black; clypeus with a triangular 

 callosity at base, which is followed below by a dagger-shaped, also 

 pale, callosity, bounded each side bylines of punctures; cheeks uneven, 

 punctate; rostrum yellowish, reaching- behind the posterior coxa?, 

 black at ti[). Prouotum a little longer than wide, obcure orange 

 anteriorly, dark brownish behind and on the scutellum, coarsely punc- 

 tate in Avav}' lines ])osteriorly, less closely so anteriorly, middle line 

 roughly carinated, posterior margin triaugularlj' sinuated, the lateral 

 margins oblicpie, anterior margin acute in the middle; scutellum 

 acutely tapering- to tip, with the lateral margins yellowish. Wing- 

 covers pale grayish, tlie base fuscous, disk fuscous, mottled with pale 

 testaceous, covered with tine pubescence, a broad, broken, pale diag- 

 onal baud extends from the inner angle of the clavus to before the 

 middle of the costa, inner end l)ending back upon the clavus, surface 

 rough and punctate, the apical one-third pale, with a brown spot at 

 tip. Legs testaceous, with the apex of tibia? and bands on joints of 

 tarsi brown. Abdominal segments bordered with whitish. Spots <m 

 sides of mesopleura and posterior i)art of metapleura whitish. 



Length to tip of wing-covers, 8-8i mm.; width of pronotum, lif mm. 



Ti/pe.—^so. ;U35, U.S.X.M. 



Thirteen specimens are present in the collection. 



APHROPHORA INTERMEDIA, new species. 



Somewhat broader than the preceding- species, but similarly marked 

 and more than twice as large. Color pale brown, linely grayish pubes- 

 cent, densely and rather finely punctate on tlie upper surface and 

 wijig-covers. Head dull tawny broxMi above, black beneath, the 

 vertex short, uneven, anterior margin a little curved, almost triangu- 

 lar, with the retlexed margin callous and pale, middle depressed, 

 unevenly, somewhat remotely, punctate, eyes dark brown, not promi- 

 nent; iiont rather short, blunt subconi<;al, convex, coarsely ribbed, the 

 sutures coarsely punctate, above the base of clypeus callous, yellow; 

 cheeks uneven, rough, punctate in places, hirsute, bordered with 

 yellow; antenna' honey yellow; rostrum black at base and tip, yellow 

 in tlie middle, reaching upon the posterior coxa-. (Sternal and pleural 



