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Vertex short, broader than long, but feebly advanced before the eyes, 

 obtusely angled before; margins and middle line carinate. Pronotum 

 very short, almost linear, tricarinate. Mesonotum much longer than 

 the pronotum and vertex together, tricarinate, the lateral carinse 

 rectilinear, very slightly diverging posteriorly. 



Color testaceous gray; mesonotum and a large costal spot or indis- 

 tinct transverse band on the basal third of the elytra obscure rufo- 

 piceous, behind this dark band is a broad indefinite whitish vitta; 

 nervures mostly dotted, the dots on the costa and commissure larger; 

 commissure with four black points, two on either margin of the whitish 

 band; ti]) of the scutellum, a chain of points on the pronotum and a 

 few on the vertex whitish. Beneath pale fulvous. Front deep black 

 with a broad median transverse band of ivory white; the marginal 

 carina? dotted with white and an indefinite whitish band crosses the 

 base of the clypeus. Tip of the rostrum and tarsal spines black; 

 knees discolored. 



Described from one example taken at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 

 August 18, and kindly sent to me for study by Prof. John B. Smith. 

 This may be the variety "a" of Say's 7iava, although that is more 

 likely to be the cinctifrons of Fitch, but it is a very distinct species j 

 Its smaller size, strongly marked front, and less maculated elytra, 

 showing obscure transverse banding, will distinguish it. 



Catonia impunctata Fitch. 



This species, like cinctifrons, was described by Fitch as a Cixius. It 

 is a little smaller than 7iava with the elytra testaceous brown, subhya- 

 line, almost immaculate, with the nervures touched with white in places, 

 indicating a transverse band near the middle and on the base of the 

 apical areoles. Fitch seems to have described the male and included 

 the female as a variety. The female has the whole basal portion of the 

 face black, with the black marks on the vertex and pronotum scarcely 

 indicated. I have taken this species at Phoenicia in the Catskills, and 

 have received specimens from Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the 

 Middle States. The Myndus impunctatus of my Buffalo list was 

 sordidipennis and not the present species. 



Catonia grisea n. sp. 



Nearest to intricata Uhler, but a little larger and paler; elytra gray 

 varied with white; front pale feebly maculated; mesonotum brown 

 with two black points posteriorly. Length 6-7 mm. 



Front elongated, quite strongly narrowed basally with the sides 

 almost straight and the carinse strong; pale flavous, in the female 



