NO. 2041. THE INSECT FAMILY DELPHACIDAE— CRAWFORD. 595 



DICRANOTROPIS MAIDIS Ashmead. 



Plate 47, figs. A, B. 



Delphax maidis Ashmead '961:323. 



Dicranotropis inaidis Van Duzee ',97:240. — Van Dine 'jf/:34. 



Feregrinus inaidis Kirkaldy '06:407; '07:132. — Van Duzee '07:43; '06':197. 



Fundaluoya simplicia Distant '06:4G8. 



Average length of body, 3.2 mm.; width of vertex, 0.22; width of 

 frons, 0.26; antennae I, 0.15, II, 0.26. General color light yellowish 

 brown to brown; frons, both antennae joints apically, femora and 

 venter brown to black; venter of abdomen black, connexivum 

 whitish; tibiae pale; elytra hyaline, maculate apically on membrane 

 veins. Body moderatel}^ large. 



Head small, considerably narrower than prothorax, rather strongly 

 carinate; vertex moderately broad, almost square, produced a little 

 before eyes; frons rectangular, median carina forked about opposite 

 oceUi. Antennae rather long, stout, I more than half as long as II; 

 II rather asperose. Pronotum rather long, broad, lateral carinas 

 straight, often not reaching hind margm; scutellum long; legs long, 

 hind tibiae longer than femora; calcar about half as long as basal 

 tarsus, margin very finely dentate. 



Male pygofers moderately large, aperture relatively small, mar- 

 gin smuate; genital styles occupying most of aperture, hook-shaped, 

 acute, and almost touching at tip. 



Redescribed from numerous males and females from Habana, 

 Cuba (Baker) ; Alabama, Acapulco, Mexico (Baker), Chiapas, Mexico 

 (Crawford) ; Nicaragua (Baker) ; Campinas and Para, Brazil (Baker) ; 

 and Kohala, Hawaii (Van Dine). 



DICRANOTROPIS CUBANUS, new species. 



Average length 2 mm.; width of vertex, 0.15; width of frons, 0.18; 

 antemi^e I, 0.09, II, 0.18. General color brown, with whitish vitta 

 on dorsum between lateral carinas; pronotum and scutellum darker 

 outside of lateral carinae, sometimes almost black; lateral margin of 

 pronotum whitish; vertex whitish; frons brown between carinae, 

 latter white or pale; abdomen usually light brown; legs and antennae 

 light brown; elytra hyaline, black at tip of clavus and with a brown 

 crescent-shaped macula on apical margin. Body slender. 



Head short, narrower than prothorax, moderately produced before 

 eyes; vertex about square, narrow; frons about twice as long as 

 broad, or more, narrowed between eyes, sides nearly straight or 

 slightly diverging; median carina forked at or slightly above ocelli; 

 antennae reaching about to clypeus, I half as long as II, or less. 



Thorax rather slender; lateral pronotal carinae usually flexed out- 

 ward or subobsolete before hind margin, sometimes percurrent to 

 margin. Legs rather long; hind tibiae longer than femora; calcar 

 long, large, thin, margin finely dentate. Elytra rather long. 



