290 HEMIPTERA OF JAPAN— UHLEB. 



Length to end of wing-covers, 9-10^ mm. ; width of pronotum, 

 2f-3^ mm. 



Ti/pe.—yo. 3137, IJ.S.N.M. 



Twelve specimens of this species are in the collection. 



APHROPHORA INDENTATA, new species. 



Testaceous, with a pale grayish-brown tinge, polished, roughly, but 

 closely and finely punctate, in form similar to A. qiiadrinotata, Say, but 

 rather broader, and different in details. Vertex short, subtriangular, 

 with the apex prominent, the margin raised, thick and callous, pale, 

 middle carina very i)rominent, the surface each side of it much 

 dejtressed, witli dark patches in the hollows, and on two spots on the 

 anterior margin, front very prominent, convex, but little longer than 

 wide, with an ivory-white spot above, the middle line punctate with 

 black each side, transverse sulci blackish, the upper ones more distinctly 

 punctate, the apex and clypeus testaceous; rostrum soiled testaceous, 

 reaching upon the posterior coxa?, i)iceous at tip. Pronotum scarcely 

 longer tlian wide, very convex, carinated on the middle line, acute at 

 forward end of the carina, latero-posterior margins oblique, the lateral 

 margins short, nearly straight, feebly carinate; surface coarsely punc- 

 tate, marked with irregular brown spots or clouds; scutellum i)ale, 

 indented, brown, and punctate in the middle, slender, short, acute, 

 and pale at tip. Wing-covers whitish-testaceous, tumidly inflated on 

 the middle back of the costal area, unevenly marbled with brown, 

 leaving interruptions on some of the veins, usually with a brown spot 

 on the middle of the anteapical series, a smaller one near the apex, 

 costally, and three small streaks at the end of three apical, superior, 

 veins, postcostal space marked with only one small areole. Legs 

 soiled testaceous, the femora clouded with a brown spot, and two 

 faint, dusky bands on the tibine, tarsal nails piceous. Sternum and 

 pleura pale testaceous. Venter orange fulvous, smooth, sutures of the 

 segments narrowly bordered with rufous. 



Lengtli to til) of liemelytra, 7-8 mm. ; width of pronotum, 2J mm. 



Type.— 1^0. 3132, U.S.N.M. 



Eight specimens, all more or less different, are in the collection. 



Family JASSID^E. 



PETALOCEPHALA DISCOLOR, new species. 



Long and narrow, rusty brown with a tinge of orange. Head a little 

 longer than the j>rothorax, triangularly rounded at the apex, the ex- 

 treme tip recurved; surface dull, densely, minutely scabrous, obsoletely 

 pubescent, almost flat, the antero-lateral margin rettexed, the middle 

 line bluntly elevated; eyes dark brown, but little raised above the 

 margin; ocelli seated against a slight depression; face broadly scooped 

 out, black, with a yellow fusiform stri])e on the middle, clypeus and 



