THE JUMPING PLANT- LICE OR PSYLLID^ OF THE NEW WORLD. 31 



Described from several males and females from Sulphur Springs 

 Valley, Arizona (Hubbard) May. 



Type.— C&t. No. 18065, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



APHALARA PINICOLA, new species. 



Close to artemisix, but body much more robust; thorax broader 

 and much more strongly arched; head narrower than thorax. Color 

 blackish and flavous; vertex black in center of each lobe; pronotum 

 and scutum with alternating stripes of black and flavous ; prsescutum 

 black cephalad; abdomen mostly dark, variegated somewhat with 

 flavous; antennse black at tip. One female in the lot is mostly 

 flavous, with much of the black faded or wanting. Wings shaped as 

 in artemisise, sparsely spotted. Genitalia rather similar. 



Described from four males and females from Argus Mountains, 

 California (Koebele), on Pinus monopJiyUa, May, 1891. 



Type.— C&t. No. 18066, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



APHALARA SUAED^, new species. 

 Fig. 110. 



Close to artemisise, differing as follows : Color of vertex and thoracic 

 dorsum reddish brown to chocolate brown, abdomen, venter, legs, 

 and antennse light yellow. Thorax rather flat, not arched as in 

 pinicola, and rather narrow, finely punctate. Vertex relatively 

 larger. Wings narrower in apical portion, more densely spotted. 

 Genitalia similar. 



Described from several males and females from Death Valley, Cali- 

 fornia (Koebele), April, 1891; Las Cruces, New Mexico (CockereU), 

 on Suaeda Memalis, November 13, 1893; several in National Museum 

 collection with data "4395," and no more, these bear the nomen 

 nudum, A. suedx Riley). 



Type.—Csit. No. 18067, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



APHALARA VEAZIEI Patch. 



Figs. IS, ir.3, 172, 3S6, 505. 



A. reaziei Patch '11 :16. 



A. communis Crawford '1 lb : 499. — Patch '12b : 218. 



Length of body 2 to 2.7 mm.; length of forewing 2.7 to 3.1 : width 

 of head 0.80 to 0.87 m. General color greenish yellow Body 

 variable from rather small to large, but not as large as pida. 



Head moderately broad, not quite as broad as thorax, not deflexed; 

 vertex a little more than half as long as broad, with two shallow 

 foveal depressions; clypeus pyriform. Antennse longer than width 

 of head, some times as much as one and a half times as long. 



Tliorax almost flat, less arched than usual, finely punctate. Legs 

 moderately long. Wings about two and three-fourths times as long 

 as broad, clear or slightly flavous, more or less transparent, rarely 

 with faint indications of spotting; venation typical. 



