NO. 2041, THE INSECT FAMILY DELPHACIDAE— CRAWFORD. 627 



Male pygofers moderately long, aperture ovoid; ventral notch not 

 very deep; styles slender, divergent, curved outwardly near tip, 

 acute; anal tube with two teeth ventrad, moderately close together. 



Redescribed from about 25 males and females from Alabama, Mis- 

 sissippi (Weed), California, Colorado (Baker). Most of the specimens 

 are from Alabama. The distribution is probably rather general 

 throughout the Southern and Southwestern States. 



MEGAMELUS MAGNUS, new species. 

 Plate 48, fig. P. 



Average length, 3.4 mm.; width of vertex, 0.23; width of frons, 

 0.34; antennse, I, 0.12, II, 0.25. General color soiled yellowish, 

 abdomen brown on sides of tergum; a spot on metapleurse and tips 

 of tarsi black. Body lai^e, robust. 



Head a little narrower than prothorax, carinae distinct but not 

 sharp; vertex rather broad, about square; frons rather hexagonal, 

 broadest at ocelU, about one and a half times as long as broad, carinas 

 rather distinct at apex of head; antennse reaching about to clypeus. 

 Lateral carinas of pronotum flexed out quite strongly behind eyes, 

 Legs stout; hind tibiae a little longer than femora; calcar stout, 

 pubescent. 



Male pygofers large; margin of aperture sinuate, with a rounded 

 protuberance about opposite tips of styles; latter large, black, stout, 

 apex sharply flexed out and acute; anal tube large, without ventral 

 processes ; anal style thick. 



Described from one brachypterous pair from Colorado (Baker). 



Type-specimen.— Csit. No. 15997, U.S.N.M. 



MEGAMELUS MAGNISTYLUS, new species. 

 Plate 48, fig. B. 



Length of body, 2.6 mm.; width of vertex, 0.20; width of frons, 

 0.26; antennae, I, 0.15, II, 0.26. General color reddish brown to 

 brown; abdomen and mesopleurae black or dark brown; legs hghter 

 brown; elytra somewhat fumate. 



Head short, broad, not quite as broad as prothorax; vertex mod- 

 erately broad; sides straight; frons dictinctly constricted above, 

 broadest near apex, not quite twice as long as broad, strongly carinate ; 

 antennae rather long, reaching beyond clypeus, I about two-thirds 

 as long as 11. Pronotum rather deeply emarginate behind. Elytra 

 moderately long, veins dark. Legs stout; hind tibiae a httle longer 

 than femora; calcar large, broad, as long as basal tarsus, margin with 

 numerous rather large teeth. 



Male pygofers long, aperture subcircular, broadest above, deeply 

 notched above; styles long, prominent, arcuate, inner margin rather 

 plane, apex deeply bifurcate with inner branch again bifurcate; anal 



