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except the extremities, which are brilliant orange-red ; middle and hind femora 

 black above, orange-red beneath. The hind margin of the pronotum or collar 

 is conspicuously orange-red, as are the membranes at the base of both pairs 

 of wings. 



ME.^SL■REME.^•Ts i.v Millimeters. 



.M«le Type. 



Length of body i q.3 



Width of head across eyes . . 5 



Expanse of fore wings 42 



Length of valve 4 



Only the type has been examined, but the broad tore winjj*. and 

 the shape of the uncus readily separate it from the other described 

 species of Platypedia. This insect should be considered just after 

 barbata in the Key to the Genera and Species of Platypedia and 

 Xeoplatypedia published in the Journal. X. V. Entomological So- 

 ciety for June, 1920. 



.2 1. Neoplatjrpedia constiicta Davis. 



Figured in Journal. X. Y. Entomological Society. June. 1920. 

 Plate 5, fig. 13. 



The only Colorado specimens so far examined are the fifteen 

 males and twenty-two females collected by Dr. Lutz at Bondad, 

 June 2-. 1919. and now in the collection of the Am. Museum of 

 Xatural History. It was noted when the insects were collected that 

 the song was a dp. dp. zip continued for a long time. 



22. Melampsalta calliope (Walker), 1850. 

 Cicada parvula Say. 18^5 ; name preoccupied. 

 Cicada fallescens Germar, 1830; name preoccupied. 



Figured in Journal, X. Y. Entomological Society. June, 1920, 

 PI. 5, figs. 14 and 15. 



The only Colorado specimens so far examined are a male and a 

 female in the U. S. Xational Museum, collected at Granada, Prowers 

 Co.. in the eastern part of the state. It is a common species in parts 

 of Kansas and Xebraska. 



23. Melampsalta kansa Da\is. 



Figured in the Jour.val. X. Y. Entomological Society. June 1920. 

 PI. 5. fig. 17. 



In the paper on the Xorth Am. ("icadas belonging to the Genera 



