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SUPPLEMENT TO PSt CNE. 



[March 1896. 



XII. New Homopteha Received from the New Mexico Agricultural 



Experiment Station. — II. 



BY CARL F. BAKER. 



Eutettix pulchella, n. sp. — Size ;ind gen- 

 eral appearance of Eutettix (P/itepsi'us) 

 strobi Fh. 



Male: Face two-thirteenths wider than 

 long. Clypeus a half longer than broad, 

 sides gently incurved towards the base, 

 broadened beyond to nearly the width at 

 base, tip truncate. Lorae a fifth longer and 

 three-fourths the width of the clypeus. 

 Genae broadly evenly emarginate below the 

 eyes. Front a fourth longer than wide, two 

 and a third times the length of the clypeus. 

 Vertex rather sharply transversely depressed 

 before the tip, the lip thus formed not 

 strong but very obtusely rounded as viewed 

 from the side ; very obtusely roimded in 

 front, length at middle but little greater than 

 that at the eyes, width between the eyes two 

 and an eighth times the length. Pronotum 

 two and one-sixth times wider than long, 

 length nearly twice that of the vertex, cur- 

 vature seven-twelfths of the length. Plate 

 short, very obtusely angled. Valves some- 

 what attenuate towards the tips, about four 

 times the length of the plate, clothed on the 

 outer edge with numerous •long fine hairs 

 and a few short weak spinesj 



Color: All beneath pale yellow, with very 

 faint indications of transverse arcs on the 

 front. Vertex back of groove, pronotum 

 and scutel, even shining brown, the brown 

 being thickly covered with small pale dots. 

 The band on vertex may send forward four 

 short more or less distinct points which are 

 ecjuidistant from the eyes and each other. 

 Elytra whitish subhyaline, with brown areas 

 which are thickly covered with fine pale 

 vermiculations. These areas occur as fol- 

 lows: On all of clavus except outer margin 

 of basal two-thirds; from apical third of 

 clavus a clearly defined band passes to costal 



margin of elytra, towards which it becomes 

 narrower; from the middle of this band a 

 subobsolete band extends to end of elytra, 

 terminating in tips of two outer apical cells. 

 The brown areas on basal half of elytra 

 have sharply defined rather heavy contours. 

 The nervures in basal half of corium are 

 colorless, in apical half brownish. Dorsum 

 of abdomen broadly black. Some of the leg 

 spines darker. Length 4.5 inm. 



San Augustine (Ckll., 212S, 2134, and 

 2144). I have also collected this species at 

 Fort Collins, Colorado. The Colorado spe- 

 cimens vary from the typical form in having 

 the brown above very dark, almost black, in 

 being very much darker below, and in other 

 minor points. The specimens of this species, 

 with others of setninuda, a western variety of 

 seminuda^ and of Phlefsius sirobi, form a 

 most interesting series. Strobi must be 

 placed in Enietiix, with the species of which 

 genus it certainly shows the closest relation- 

 ships. I hope the female will soon be ob- 

 tained. 



Thamnotettix tenella, n. sp. — Size and 

 general appearence of Thani?iotettix carich^ 

 but the vertex is not so produced, and the gen- 

 er;il color is pale sordid yellowish. Length 

 female 3 25 mm. 



Female : Face little more than one-seventh 

 wider than long. Front one-third longer 

 than wide, little more than two times the 

 length of the clypeus, sides slightly incurved 

 at the antennae. Lorae as long and two- 

 thirds as wide as the clypeus. Genae broad 

 below the lorae, gently obtusely angled out- 

 wardly, from this to the angle of the eye, 

 straight. Clypeus gently narrowed at the 

 base, at the extreme tip somewhat narrowed 

 and truncate. Vertex a third longer at the 

 middle than next the eyes, the length three- 



