42 • York. Entomological Society. ;v ,:. xiv. 



Genus LEA, new. 

 Color green with brown or yellowish tints. Form more elongate than usual in 

 the other United States genera. Vertex as in Cyrtophyllus but the head is narrower. 

 Pronotum about one and one half times as long as the middle width, twice as long as 

 the interior width ; lateral lobes one and one half times as long as high and meeting 

 the disk in a distinct angle, forming subpersistent lateral carinae, the disk somewhat 

 rugose and crossed by two distinct, but not conspicuous, sulci, the posterior one a 

 little behind the middle. Legs about as in Cyrtophyllus, all the femorse and tibiae 

 spined below and the middle and posterior tibiae above, the anterior ones unarmed 

 dorsally but, like the rest, is fiat, with acute margins. Elytra two and one half times 

 as long as the middle breadth, both margins equally curved, apically broadly rounded, 

 the anterior field with the veins regular and parallel as in Cyrtophyllus ; wings broad, 

 about as in Cyrtophyllus. Supraanal plate, at least of the female, slightly more than 

 twice as long as the middle breadth, apically narrowly rounded. Cerci of the male 

 furcate, the branches round and simple, parallel and subequal in length ; of female 

 cylindrical, apically pointed and briefly bifid, forming two minute brief branches: 

 subgenital plate of the male similar to that of the allied genera but is more distinctly 

 furcate apically, the two halves more distinctly separated. Ovipositor essentially as in 

 Cyrtophyllus, but curving somewhat more abruptly upwards. 



Type Cyrtophyllus floridensis Beutenm. 



This genus, while related to its allies, has a very distinctive ap- 

 pearance. The elongate pronotum with its subpersistent lateral carinae 

 and elongate lateral lobes and the generally more elongate form easily 

 distinguish it from the two allied genera. It is much more nearly 

 allied to Cyrtophyllus than it is to Paracyrtophyllus, as exemplified by 

 the shape of the wings and the dorsally unspined anterior tibiae : the 

 shape of the cerci of the male however, as shown in the figure, seems 

 to be more like that of Cyrtophyllus. All the male characters of the 

 above description were taken from the printed description and figure 

 referred to below. We have but one species : 



Lea floridensis Beutenmueller. (Text fig. and PI. I, fig. 5.) 



Cyrtophyllus floridensis Beutenm., Bull. American Mas. Nat. Hist., xix, 637 



3 (I9°3)- 



The single male, the type, is the only specimen of that sex known. It is de- 

 scribed by the author as follows : " Color — Head and thorax light gray, with a tinge 

 of green. Wing-cases green-gray. Legs greenish, basal half of femora pinkish. 

 Head large, stout ; eyes hemispherical, rather small. Vertex with a short spine, 

 rounded at the tip, grooved on top. Antennae twice as long as the body. Pronotum 

 longer than broad on top, with two transverse furrows ; lateral carinae rounded to the 

 second transverse furrow, thence rather sharply defined to the hind edge ; lateral lobes 

 a little narrower at the lower part than at upper ; anterior angle acutely rounded ; 

 hind angle well rounded. Wings concave. Wing-covers longer than the hind 

 wings, almost three times as long as broad, and almost of equal width ; apex 



