THE JUMPING PLANT-LICE OR PSYLLID^ OF THE NEW WORLD. 33 

 APHALARA CAUDATA, new species. 



Resembling suaedse in color and size; head similar, but antennae 

 distinctly longer than ^^ddth of head. Vertex and thoracic dorsum 

 strigate. Wings usually clear, sometimes indistinctly spotted, not 

 tliickened and marked, as in artemisise, but similar in shape and 

 size to the latter. Male genitalia relatively very large; forceps as 

 in veaziei, with a large, clavate apex, and a rather large subapical 

 inner tooth. 



Described from seven males and females from Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia (Koebele), March. These bear the manuscript name of 

 A. Jcoehelei Riley. 



Type.— No. 18068, U. S. Xat. Mus. 



APHALARA PULCHELLA Crawford. 



Figs. 107, 16S, 176, 379, 499. 



A. pulchella Crawford 'lib: 500. 



Length of body 1.7 to 2.2 mm.; length of forewing 2 to 2.4; length 

 to tip of folded wings 2.3 to 3. General color brown, variegated with 

 flavous; scutum more or less striped with flavous; antennas pale, 

 black at tip, and sometimes on tip of each segment. 



Head not as broad as thorax; vertex conspicuously emarginate 

 on front margin, coarsely strigate; antennae about one and a half 

 times as long as width of head, slender. Thorax rather strongly 

 arched, broader than in caudata, strigate. Legs slender. Wings 

 rather narrow, more attenuate at base than usual, broad distally, 

 almost half as broad as long, clear and semitransparent except on the 

 brown maculae; wing picture as in figure. 



Genitalia. — Male. — Genitalia rather large; anal valve of usual 

 form for this genus; forceps as in caudata, enlarged at apex. 

 Female. — Genital segment as in veaziei, longer than rest of abdomen, 

 rather slender, acute at apex. 



Described from several males and females from California, as 

 follows: Claremont (C. F. Baker); San Mateo County (Baker); Los 

 Angeles (Coquillett). The latter bear the manuscript name of 

 A. coquiUetti Rdey. 



Type in author's collection. 



APHALARA PICTA Zetterstedt. 



Figs. 166, 173, 3&3, 506. 



Chermes picta Zetterstedt '40: 308. 



Aphalara picta Flor '61: 539.— Scott '76: 563.— Loew '76: pi. 2, figs. 36-40; 

 '77: 124; '79: 562; '82: 256; '86: 150; '88: 13.— Reuter '81: 151.— 

 Edwards '96: 230.— Sulc '06: 2.— Oshanin '07: 347.— Crawford 

 'lib: 501.— Patch '12b: 217. 



