THE JUMPING PLANT-LICE OR PSYLLIDiE OP THE NEW WORLD. 45 



HETEROPSYLLA TEXANA, new species. 



Figs. 70, 246, 295, 456. 



Length of body 1 .5 mm. ; length of forewing 2.1 ; width of head 0.75. 

 General color orange yellow to reddish brown; abdomen often 

 lighter than thorax and head, sometimes darker; mesonotum often 

 striped ^\dth brown. 



Head about as broad as thorax, deflexed, rounded forward between 

 antennae, shghtly strigate, arcuate on posterior margin; vertex with 

 a slight foveal depression on each side of median line, elevated on 

 postocellar regions, not emarginate in front at median line; genas 

 large and swollen, with a long seta at apex of swelling; frons not 

 covered by genae, visible as a small sclerite between the gense but not 

 formmg a smooth surface with the latter, appearing somewhat as a 

 short stalk of the front ocellus. Antennae about twice as long as 

 width of head or more, very slender. 



Thorax arched, rather broad, coarsely punctate; pronotum short, 

 attaining laterad about to upper margin of eyes; pleural suture long, 

 oblique; pleurites narrow. Wings relatively large, hyaline, macu- 

 lated on basal and apical margins, -with a bro^v^l macula at tip of 

 claval suture, a curved one around the iorks of the cubitus, and 

 another at tip of radial sector; about two and a fifth times as long 

 as broad, broad and broadly rounded apicall}-; fu'st marginal cell 

 larger than second; pterostigma yellowish, rather short. 



Genitalia. — 2Iale. — Forceps short, broad, rather deeply notched at 

 tip, with posterior process longer than anterior, both acute; anal valve 

 short, simple, slender, truncate at apex, pubescence sparse. — Female. — 

 Genital segment moderately long, acute; dorsal valve distinctly longer 

 than ventral, with a prominent convexity dorsad at base. 



Described from many males and females in a collection sent to me 

 by Mr. W. D. Hunter, and many in the United States National 

 Museum collection. Type-locality: Devils River, Texas (E. A. 

 Schwarz), on Pithecolohium; also, on SpJmeralcea angustifolia (F. C. 

 Pratt), and on Monarda citriodora, in the same locahty; other 

 locahties: Dallas, Texas (W. W. Yothers and C. E,. Jones); Corpus 

 Christi, Texas (R. A. Cushman), on Ohrysopsis sp.; Galveston, 

 Texas (W. D. Pierce), on Tamarax gallica; San Antonio, Texas (E. A. 

 Schwarz, F. C. Pratt), on Celtis pallida; Kerrville, Texas (Pratt), at 

 hght; Cuero, Texas (Cushman); Victoria, Texas (J. D. Mitchell), 

 on Acacia; Piano, Texas (Tucker). The dates of collection range 

 from March to August. In the National Museum collection as 

 follows: Wades, Texas (Hubbard and Schwarz), on Prosopis juliflor, 

 May 22; Austin, Texas, on P^'osopissp., August 7, 1894; Fort Yuma, 

 Arizona (Hubbard), on Prosopis juliflor, January 21 ; Colorado (C. P. 

 Gillette), no data; Wellington, Kansas (E. G. Kelly). Some of these 

 specimens are labeled Pseudaplmlara prosopis Schwarz (manuscript). 



Type in author's collection. 



