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species known to me. It is a little more than twice as long as its basal 

 width, or judging only by the eye it appears much longer; the three 

 frontal carinse are straight and parallel throughout their length, con- 

 verging to a point on the subacute base. The plates of the female are 

 ferruginous, ligulate, but not quite as slender as in lingula, and scarcely 

 attain the apex of the green superior pieces. The elytra are the 

 same pale greenish hyaline with green nervures that we find in lingula, 

 but in some examples they show a distinct brownish tinge toward 

 their apex; the stigma has three or four areoles. Length 13-14 mm. 



I took this species at Woodbine, New Jersey, in August, 1902, and on 

 Staten Island in August, 1904. 

 Dictyophara florens St&l. 



Vertex a little longer than its basal width ; median carina precurrent, 

 on either side of this is a short lateral carina which is scarcely indicated 

 in Mexican specimens. Front broad, the margins strongly reflexed 

 and a little expanded before the eyes and next the clypeus; three 

 discal carinas very prominent, the lateral almost attaining the clypeal 

 margin, diverging toward the base where they roundedly converge and 

 meet in an obtuse angle, and together with the marginal carinse are 

 marked with a black line. Carime of the pronotum and mesonotum 

 distinct, the latter converging and meeting before attaining the pro- 

 notal margin. Valve of the female short, transverse, oblique within; 

 plates oblong, rounded at apex, oblique, not attaining the apex of the 

 pygofers. Sides of the genital segment of the male slightly oblique 

 at apex, the dorsal angle very obtusely rounded. 



I took a good series of this species from a coarse grass at Effingham, 

 Kansas, in July, 1900. They agree in every respect with Mexican 

 material in my collection, except that the base of the vertex is dis- 

 tinctly tricarinate. This would throw the species into another section 

 in Stal's synopsis {Rio Jan. Hemi'p., p. 64), but they certainly are not 

 distinct. 

 Diotyopliara lingula n. sp. 



^Closely allied to florens. Pale green, lighter beneath and tinged with 

 rufous on the tibiae. Vertex a little more produced, carinse distinct. 

 Front somewhat broader than in florens, its sides almost rectilinear, 

 the three discal carinas prominent, slightly diverging to a point before 

 the anterior angle of the eyes, then deflected and running straight to 

 the apex w^here they unite in an acute angle ; apically the}- run straight 

 to the clj^peal suture. Rostrum longer than in florens, distinctly sur- 

 passing the posterior trochanters. Pro- and mesonotum substantially 

 as in florens, but the former a little broader and more truncated between 



