584 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.46. 



PHYLLODINUS NERVATUS Van Duzee. 



Plate 47, fig. F. 



Phyllodinm nervatus Van Duzee '97: 241.— Wirtner '04: 215.— Swezey '0^: 36. 

 Eurysa nervata Van Duzee '9-4:191. 



Average length, 2.3 mm.; width of vertex, 0.29; width of frons, 

 0.33; antemise, I, 0.18, II, 0.29. General color brown to dark brown; 

 vertex pale, dark apicaUy in middle and dark spotted next to eyes; 

 frons dark with a double row of Hght spots on each side (pits) ; clypeus 

 black; pronotum pale between lateral carinse and at lateral margins; 

 scutellum yeUow on carinas, dark between; antennse brown; legs dark, 

 hind legs more or less banded with yellow; elytra (brachypterous) 

 smoky brown, veins lighter. Body stout. 



Head about as broad as prothorax, seldom broader; vertex square 

 in front, broader than long, scarcely produced before eyes; frons a 

 little broader than long, sides rounded, with a double row of indistinct 

 pits on each side appearing as yellow spots; median carina forked at 

 apex of head ; antennae reaching considerably beyond clypeus, I more 

 than half as long as II. 



Pronotum moderately long, with a row of indistinct pits behind 

 lateral carina?; fore and middle tibiae and femora of about equal 

 width; hind legs rather long; calcar thick, stout, not very long, mar- 

 gin scarcely dentate. 



Male pygofer moderately broad, aperture elhptical, long, sides 

 quite regular; anal tube large, produced ventrad into two stout acute 

 processes; styles slender, arched apically, tips narrowed, sUghtly 

 flattened, scarcely acute. 



Redescribed from eleven brachypterous males and females from 

 C'olorado (Baker). 



PHYLLODINUS FLABELLATUS Ball. 



Plate 47, fig. G. 

 Phyllodinus flabellatus Ball '0^:232.— Swezey '04:36.— Wirtner '0-^:216. 



Length of body, 2.7 mm.; width of vertex, 0.20; width of frons, 

 0.28; antennae I, 0.17, II, 0.33. General color reddish brown; pos- 

 terior half of pronotum and all of scuteUum white; vertex dark with 

 narrow posterior margin, a long transverse band subapically and a 

 shorter one at apex wliite; frons reddish, with four white transverse 

 bands, two white spots midway on each side, and apical margin 

 white; abdomen mth wliite spots; elytra black, except apical margin 

 broadly white, band broadest on costal margin; legs brown; tarsi 

 white except at tip. 



Head small, considerably naiTower than prothorax; vertex a little 

 longer than broad, somewhat rounded in front; frons tw^ce as long 

 as broad, sides subparaUel, without pits; median carina forked at 

 apex of head; antennae reaching beyond clypeus ; pronotum without 

 pits. Elytra short, broad. Legs as in nervatus. 



