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 NEW CALIFORNIA HOMOPTERA. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE. 

 (Continued from p. 52, vol. vi.) 



5! Thamnotettix snbaenea n. sp. 



Form and size of T. abietitia Fall. Broad. Pale yellow, obscurely marked 

 with fulvous. Elytra subhyaline, veined and marked toward the costa with 

 fulvous brown and exhibiting by oblique, light, strong, coppery reflections, 

 intensified by the highly iridescent wings beneath; lower surface pale testa- 

 ceous. Length: male, 6.5 mm.; female, 7 mm. 



Head a little wider than the pronotum; very bluntly rounded; vertex 

 about one and. one-half times as long medially as ne.xt the eye, disc flattish, 

 with a transverse depression behind the tip; a central line connecting before 

 with a transverse spot on the depression, and two irregular spots on the hind 

 border near the eyes, pale fulvous. Sometimes the latter spots are divided, 

 and there may be two small points near the apex. Front broad above, occa- 

 sionally with a few short, pale brown lines each side; sutures of the face more 

 or less embrowned. Lorae broad. Clypeus slightly widened at the rounded 

 tip. Antennal seta rather long. Eyes brown. Pronotum: anterior margin 

 straight; sides very short, with a black spot below the edge; latero-posterior 

 margins straight, the angles rounded. Surface pale, with six short, fulvous 

 stripes not reaching either margin, the lateral ones frequently obsolete, scu- 

 tellum pale, basal angles, two dots between them and the central line, a little 

 dusky in fully colored examples; edge whitish, with two black dots on each 

 side. Beneath and legs pale or soiled white; femora lineate with pale brown; 

 tibije with black dots at the base of the spines. Elytra pale fulvous, almost 

 hyaline, infuscated toward the suture, where there is a brown stripe, some- 

 times only indicated on the base and apex of the clavus; an indistinct whitish 

 band crosses the elytra near the middle, strongly distinguished on the suture 

 near the tip of the clavus; nervures copper colored, at the apex margined with 

 brown. The whole surface has a coppery reflection, almost iridescent in some 

 lights, produced, in part at least, by the highly iridescent wings beneath. 

 Nervures of the wings brown. Abdomen pale testaceous, with a black line 

 on the venter at each side next the base of the connexivum, sometimes 

 broken into spots; margin of the dorsal segments broadly black, or at least 

 with a black spot at the posterior angle. 



Last ventral segment of the female about three times as wide as the pre- 

 ceding, broadly rounded posteriorly, with a prominent central tooth; pygofers 

 with marginal and a few discal pale bristles. Ultimate ventral segment of the 

 male itot differing from the penultimate; valve broad and short, rounded, with 

 two black spots on the base, the plates fringed with white hairs. 



Described from two females and one male (No. 223). This in- 

 sect might readily be mistaken for a Scaphoidezis , but the antennae 

 are shorter, and in general characters it agrees mo.st nearly with the 

 present genus, in which I have placed it provisionally. 



6. Thamnotettix coquillettl n. sp. 



Form of T. kemiicotti Uhl. nearly. Pale yellow marked with fulvous, 

 female; or whitish testaceous, marked with fulvous brown, male. Eyes, two 



