1923] The Fulgorid^ op Eastern North America 185 



broad below ; pronotum short, deeply sinuate ; mesonotum long, lateral 

 carina strongly diverging ; median tooth elongate, obtuse ; genital 

 styles long, meeting on the median line for about half their length, 

 their apices slightly broadened, obliquely truncate. 



Color: General color ochraceous yellow; apex of the vertex 

 marked with blackish fuscous ; frons and clypeus ochraceous buff, 

 the former with a broad basal band and a narrow apical band of 

 black; mesonotum ochraceous orange, the intermediate compartments 

 clouded with blackish fuscous; wings milky subhyaline, the veins 

 heavily brown, the apical margin narrowly fuscous. 



Length, apex of head to apex of abdomen 4.20 mm. ; to the tips of 

 the wings 5.25 mm. 



Holotype S . Elizabeth, 111. July 6, 1917. In the collection 

 Illinois State Laboratory of Natural Historj'. 



Bruchomorpha vittata n. sp. 



Figs. 55, 220 



This species may be recognized by its elongate narrow front, short 

 nearly truncate nasal process. 



Vertex rather broad, the lateral margins converging to the inter- 

 mediate carinas, the anterior margin nearly straight ; frons rather 

 elongate, narrow ; the intermediate caringe slightly arched, the nasal 

 process short, but little produced, nearly truncate anteriorly. Pro- 

 notum broadly rounded anteriorly, deeply almost triangularly emar- 

 ginate posteriorly. Mesonotum ecarinate, the disk broadly arched, 

 the scutellar portion flat, produced. Macropterous wings narrow, 

 elongate. 



Color: General color dull blackish fuscous; eyes grayish brown; 

 median frontal stripe evident, extending to the posterior border of 

 the pronotum. Mesonotum and abdomen paler, median stripe nar- 

 rower. Macropterous wings smoky hyaline ; legs pale yellowish testa- 

 ceous; all the femora and fore tibise washed with brownish fuscous. 



Length, macropterous form, apex of head to apex of abdomen 3 

 mm. ; apex of wings 4.20 mm. 



Holotype 9 . Brownsville, Texas. November 21, 1911. In the 

 collection of the Illinois State Laboratory Natural History. 



Paratypes 2 9$. Brownsville, Texas. November 21, 1911. 



