1919] Sanders and DeLong: Eight New " Jassids'' 237 



Chlorotettix fumidus n. sp. 



Plate XIII, Figs. 21, 22, 23. 



Resembling tergatus in size and color, but narrower, with head well 

 produced and angled. Length, female, 8. mm.; male, 7.5 mm. 



Vertex produced, distinctly angled; one-half longer on middle than 

 next the eye, and about twice as wide as long. Pronotum very convex 

 anteriorly and almost truncate posteriorly, length one-half the width. 

 Second apical cell much narrower than in tergatus. 



Color of vertex dull pale orange; face pale straw-yellow. Pronotum 

 and scutellum smoky green, elytra dark smoky. Body above black; 

 beneath pale yellow. 



Genitalia: Last ventral segment of female about one-half longer 

 than preceding; obliquely produced to outer angle, with posterior 

 margin truncate or slightly concave to broad deep median notch two- 

 thirds distance to base. Male valve triangular, as wide as preceding 

 segment, apex rounded and posterior margins slightly sinuate. Plate 

 short and broad, convexly rounded to acute appressed tips. 



Described from three female and t^vo male specimens. 

 Type specimen, female, collected at Mt. Alto, Pa., August 24, 

 1918, by T. L. Guy ton. Two females from Moscow, Tenn., 

 collected by the junior author, June 23, 1915; one male from 

 Paris, Tenn., June 26, 1915, and one male from Speeceville, 

 Pa., July 22, 1917, by the senior '"author. Type and paratypes 

 in authors' collections. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIII. 



1. — Platymetopius rubellus n. sp., head (dorsal view). 



2. — head (side view). 3. — cf genitalia. 4. — 9 genitalia. 

 5. — Platymetopius collaris n. sp., head. 



6. — cf genitalia. 7. — 9 genitalia. 

 8. — Deltocephalus detector n. sp., head. 



9. — cf genitalia. 10 — elytron 



11. — Phlepsius tenuifrons n. sp., head (side view). 



12. — head (dorsal view.. 13. — cf genitalia. 14. — 9 genitalia. 



15. — Phlepsius tinctorius n. sp., head (dorsal view). 



16. — head (side view). 17. — 9 genitalia. 18. — cf genitalia. 

 19. — Chlorotettix productus n. sp., head. 20. — 9 genitalia. 

 21. — Chlorotettix fumidus n. sp., head. 



22.— cf genitalia. 23.-9 genitalia. 



