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 NEW CALIFORNIA HOMOPTERA. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE. 



(Continued from p. So, vol. vi.) 



9. Thamnotettix atropunctata n. sp. 



Form of the preceding, but smaller. Color bright fulvous brown; head 

 black tinged with rufous, especially on the front. Head, pronotum and scu- 

 tellum with twelve black dots, arranged, two on the vertex, a row of eight on 

 the anterior margin of the pronotum and on the disc of the scutellum two. 

 Basal angles of the scutellum with a black spot. Length 3.5 mm., female. 



Head a little wider than the pronotum, obtusely angled before. Verte.x 

 about one-half longer at the> middle than next the eye, with an impressed 

 central line, obsolete before the apex. Front slightly widened above the 

 antennte, the sides feebly convex toward the tip. Clypeus broad, a very 

 Httle widened apically, the sides straight; apex rounded in conformity to the 

 curve of the cheeks. Lorae large. Cheeks wide, the sides feebly arcuated, 

 beneath the eyes not at all angled. Entire head and the scutellum punctured, 

 the apical field of the latter more coarsely so. Sides of the pronotum 

 rounded, disc obsoletely rugulose and uneven. 



Color: Vertex pale yellow, suffused with rufous, especially toward the 

 apex, where there is a brown cloud, interrupted on the medial line; near the 

 posterior margin are two oval black spots, placed midway between the im- 

 pressed central line and the eyes, and a small brown point adjacent to each 

 ocellus. Face pale rufous, apex and an ill-defined longitudinal line on the 

 middle of t*e front paler; sutures and a row of short transverse lines on each 

 side of the frontbrown; be low the eyes an indistinct brownish cloud occupies 

 the disc of the cheeks. Pronotum fulvous brown tinged with purple before; 

 anterior submargin with a row of eight distinct black points, the two on either 

 side of the central pair slightly advanced beyond the line of the others. An 

 oval spot within each basal angle of the scutellum, two dots on the disc, and 

 the transverse line black; anterior field pale, posterior obscure rufous. Elytra 

 bright fulvous brown with strong coppery reflections produced by the highly 

 iridescent wings beneath; nervures distinct, pale, marked with whitish where 

 they intercept the pale sutural nervure; costal nervure pale nearly to the 

 apex. Wings smoky, nervures brown. Legs and beneath testaceous brov\n; 

 abdomen suffused with rufous; darker on the disc; pygofers and edge of the 

 last ventral segment pale, the former shaded with rufous brown toward the 

 apex; ovipositor rufous; spines of the posterior tibia; pale. 



Ultimate ventral segment nearly twice the length of the preceding; lateral 

 angles somewhat obtusely produced; each side of the center is a narrow in- 

 cision reaching to the middle of the disc, leaving a square central tooth, wtiich 

 is minutely emarginate at its apex. Pygofers broad, with a few stout spines 

 near the suture, arranged in a double row. 



Described from a single female (No. 630). This may prove but 

 a variety of the preceding-, but the dissimilar coloring and the form 

 of the last ventral segment would seem to entitle it to specific dis- 

 tinction. 



