218 University of California Puhlicafious. [ENTOMouKiv 



Both of these species are intermediate between Uijalocliloria 

 and Diaplinidia, but the short head and excavated vertex would 

 seem to place them nearer to the former, although the elytra are 

 less expanded, with the embolium much less complete. 



Described from one male and four female examples taken by 

 me at Alpine, San Diego County, California, in June and July, 

 1913. It is worth noting here that Mrs. Slosson has taken 

 Hijalocldoria caviceps Rent, at Biscayne Bay, Florida, thus bring- 

 ing the typical form of the genus within our territory. 



Genus Labopidea Thler 



Form oblong in the male, ovate with abbreviated elytra in the 

 female. Color green, sometimes marked with black, and rather 

 densely clothed with pale appressed hairs. Head broad, vertical, 

 with eyes wider than anterior margin of pronotum. Vertex broad, 

 at least three times as wide as eyes, triangularly depressed, this 

 depression really formed by two oblique, impressed vittae, behind 

 which the surface is lower but leaving the hind margin convex 

 and almost carinated across the middle. Front broad and convex 

 in both diameters. Clypeus broad and prominent, its base almost 

 attaining the line of the eyes, sharply distinguished from the 

 front. Antennae rather long, inserted near lower angle of eyes; 

 first .joint short, second at least three times longer, third and 

 fourth becoming thinner. Eyes small, prominent, surpassing by 

 nearly their whole width the pronotal angles; viewed from the 

 side short-oval, scarcely reaching to the middle of the side of the 

 head. Pronotum transverse, rather convex, its length about half 

 the basal width, sides strongly oblique, straight, anterior angles 

 well rounded; hind margin depressed, nearly covering basal lobe 

 of scutellum. Elytra well developed in the male ; short, with 

 costa strongly arcuated in the female, in which the membrane is 

 frequently reduced to a mere margin. Membrane when developed 

 biareolate. Rostrum scarcely attaining the hind coxae. Arolia 

 free and converging. Wing-cell without a hamus. 



Dr. Uhler describes the eyes as almost pedunculate, but that 

 appearance is caused by their rounded, bead-like form when 

 viewed from above, and perhaps in part by the rounded anterior 

 angles of the pronotum. The genus was founded upon a female 

 very like the female of sericatiis, but somewhat marked with 

 black. The large thick green bodies clothed with a close hoary 

 pubescence, the thiclv ^'ertical head and the short rounded elytra 



