Descriptions of two JASSIDS from the Cranberry bogs 

 of New Jersey. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE. 



ATHVSANLS STRIATULUS 



Fallen. 



THAMNOTKTTIX FITCHII 



\'an Duzee. 



ac;allia 4-punctata 

 Prov. 



Thamnotettix fitchii n. sp.— Form of T. melanogastcr, but smaller. Pale 

 yellow; abdomen and four small spots on the anterior margin of the vertex 

 black; pronotum with five pale longitudinal lines; elytra subhyaline, with 

 yellow nervures. Length 3 — 4 nmi. 



Head finely punctured, very little wider than the pronotum. Verte.x 

 triangular, ape.x obtuse, disc feebly depressed; length in the J* subequal to 

 the breadth on the hind margin between the eyes, in the $ one-quarter 

 shorter. Front rather broad, width between the ocelli about three-fourths 

 the length; sides nearly straight, converging from the ocelli to the apex, but 

 much more strongly below the antenna. Clypeus oblong, slightly contracted 

 at base, basal suture almost obsolete, apex truncate; loras broad, well rounded; 

 cheeks broad, bluntly angled at about their middle. Pronotum one-fourth 

 longer than the vertex, hind margin feebly concave, surface very minutely, 

 transversely wrinkled. Basal ventrql segment wide, its hind margin well 

 rounded. Valve of the male broad and short, lenticular in form and occu- 

 pying the concavity of the last ventral segment; plates triangular, sides con- 

 vex at base, concave above, apex a little prolonged, obtuse, ciliated. Last 

 ventral segment of the $ broad, hind edge strongly advanced each side in 

 an obtuse angle, the centre with a short blunt tooth; pygofers rather long and 

 slender, sparingly ciliated at apex. 



Color pale yellow, sometimes obscure. Vertex with a slender longitu- 

 dinal line and two small spots on the disc fulvous, the latter sometimes ob- 

 solete; anterior margin with a row of four black spots, the middle pair ap- 

 proximate; antennal cavities and a small dot just below each ocellus, black; 

 front embrowned, with a central longitudinal and lateral transverse pale lines 

 more or less distinct. Eyes brown; ocelli pale. Disc of the prosternum, tip 

 of the rostrum, claws, and a dot at the base of the tibial spines, black. Pro- 

 notum with five parallel, equidistant, pale longitudinal lines. Scutellum im- 



