EIGHT NEW "JASSIDS" FROM THE EASTERN 



UNITED STATES. 



Family Cicadellidae Hemiptera-Homoptera) 



J. G. Sanders and D. M. DeLong, Harrisburg, Pa. 



The mountain regions of Pennsylvania and certain less 

 elevated sections of New Jersey, and those portions of Maryland 

 and Virginia between the Chesapeake Bay and the ocean, 

 have received but scant attention from collectors of Homoptera 

 if existing records are dependable. Although relatively little 

 collecting has been done to date, we are able to describe seven 

 new species of distinct interest, while withholding other appar- 

 ently new forms for more material and better data. 



These new species are described from Pennsylvania, one 

 from New Jersey and three from the Maryland- Virginia 

 peninsula; with one exception, all collected by the senior 

 author during the past two years. 



Especially interesting and beautiful is the new Phlepsius 

 collected near South Orange, N. J., by Mr. Harry B. Weiss, 

 from "Hercules Club" {Aralia spinosa); and also the very 

 distinct and beautifully marked Deltocephalus from grasses 

 on the mountain top near Port Matilda in central Pennsylvania, 

 taken by the senior author. 



Platymetopius rubellus n. sp. 



Plate XIII, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



Form of ciiprescens with long pointed vertex, but smaller and with 

 reddish color above and on face. Female, 4.75; male, 4.25. 



Vertex longitudinally concave, a little more than twice as long 

 as width between the eyes, margins slightly concave, either side to a 

 very acute apex. Pronotum short and broad. Not quite two-thirds 

 as long as vertex, and more than twice as broad as long. Elytra rather 

 short and broad, broadly rounded at apex. From side view, the front 

 is concave and very acutely angled with vertex. Face long, frons 

 extremely narrow, clypeus constricted just above middle, expanded to 

 rounding apex. 



Color: Generally reddish brown, shading toward infuscated apices of 

 elytra. Vertex with median apical line and a line either side extending 

 along margin half way to eyes, and then inward on disc, with faint traces 

 toward median basal portion, pale. Median line deep and black on 



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