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Length to tip of anal prolons^ration 16—17 111m.; to tip of clo.sed \vint^'« 22--23 

 mm. ; width of base of proiiotum 5^/^ -6 mm. 



Only males of this neat little species iiave been brought to my notice. 

 The cell opened by the separation of the postcosial ulnar nervur.e from 

 the postcostal one is longer in this than in the other species. Three spe- 

 cimens e.xamined from Southern California. 



Mr. Morrison secured for nie, in Nevada, several \ery small speci- 

 mens belonging to this genus Platypedia, uhich measure only 17 — 18 

 mm. to the tip of the closed wing-covers; but they appear to be only 

 dvvarfed specimens of /*. />«/;?(/?«?'. Thev are not nearlv as hairv as the 

 new species here described, and chiefly display in miniature the charac- 

 teristics of/', putnami, as we find it in the same section of our countrv 



By counting the postcostal areole as the first ulnar, we have six 

 areoles across the wing-cover, instead of the usual five. The commonly 

 cited second ulnar (third of our method) is longer and more nearly tri- 

 angular in the new than in the other species previously described. 



Platypedia putnami x'!^ figured in Proceedings of the Davenport Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences, Vol. II, 1880, pi. IV, fig. 2, 3. 



CALYRIA, Stael. 

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 C. occidentis, Walk. {CepJialoxys,) Briti-h Mus. List. Homopt. Suppl. p. 36. 



Calyria virginea, Stael. Stettin Ent. Zeit., Vol. XXV, 1864, p. 56, 

 379. Distant, Biol. Cent. Amer. Homopt., p. 19, i. 

 Hitherto found only near Vera Cruz, Mexico ; unless narrow speci- 

 mens of J/^/aw/^cr/A? />cz;t7//cz, Say, which lack one of the apical areoles 

 of the wings, should prove to be the same as the Mexican form given as 

 the type. Several specimens of J/, parvula have been examined by my- 

 self, in which six apical areoles were present in the one wing and five in 

 the opposite one. 



' PRUNASIS, Stael. 

 P. venosa, new sp. 



Pale green, or'faded straw yellow, feebly pubescent ; form nearly the same as 

 that of y1/<.7flw/jf?/-rt/'(7rz'///rt, but with the abdomen less contracted at tip. Vertex 

 with a belt of large dusky spots extending from eye to eye, but sometimes obsolete, 

 so as to leave only one large spot on the centre and enclosing the ocelli ; supra-anten- 

 nal plates more or less dusky ; front banded with fuscous between the transverse 

 ridges, the middle line infuscated wider above and interrupted there by a dagger- 

 shaped yellow mark ; antennas yellow, piceous at tip of second joint and base of 

 third'; rostrum reaching to near the tip of posterior co.\8e, with the apex more or less 

 infuscated. Pronotum transverse, smooth on the middle line with the oblique im- 

 pressed lines each side well defined, and the surface curvedly wrinkled between them; 

 the lateral margins feebly sinuated, very narrow, but abruptly expanded, reflexed 

 and impressed at the humeri ; meso-notum moderately convex, a little sinuated each 

 side, with four ob-deltoid obscure fuscous spots, of which the two inner are very 



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