1923] The Fulgorid.e of Eastern North America 199 



white metanotum to show through ; the apical half opaque black ; ab- 

 dominal segments dorsally and ventrally ochraceous orange marked 

 with black along the lateral margins; genital pieces black. Color of 

 the female: eyes, spines of the legs, claws and ovipositors black; lat- 

 eral margins of the pronotum and the tegulas dusky; metapleura 

 clouded with black; keolopterous wings long, narrow, faintly yellow 

 the veins white setigerous. 



Length, apex of vertex to apex of abdomen, male, 2.25 mm. ; fe- 

 male 3.50 mm. ; length of vertex, male, .66 mm. ; female .66 mm, ; 

 width of pronotum, male, ,50 mm, ; female .66 mm. 



Holotype S . Carolina Beach, Wilmington, N. C, June 4, 1920. 



Allotype $ . Carolina Beach, Wilmington, N. C, June 4, 1920. 



Paratypes 5 S , Carolina Beach, Wilmington, N, C, June 1920. 

 Four S , Cape Charles, Virginia, July 31. 1920, D. M. DeLong, Ten 

 9 , Carolina Beach, North Carolina, June 1920, Two 9 , Cape 

 Charles, Virginia, August 1, 1920. D, M, DeLong. 



Megamelanus dorsalis n. sp. 



Figs. 110, 432, 433, 664 



This species may be recognized by its yellowish testaceous head 

 and thorax, and blackish wings and distinct genitalia. 



Vertex elongate, narrow, the lateral margins converging slightly 

 to in front of the eyes and then strongly to the acute apex; frons 

 widened apically, strongly narrowed to the apex of the vertex; frons 

 tricarinate; clypeus broad and short, antenna short; first segment 

 about half as long as the second; second segment globular; eyes sub- 

 globular, triangular in outline. Pronotum about half as long as the 

 vertex, deeply notched posteriorly, tricarinate on the disk, the inter- 

 mediate carina somewhat bowed outwardly; ventral margins of the 

 breast plates convex, strongly reflexed, Mesonotum about as long as 

 the pronotum, tricarinate, the lateral carina strongly converging an- 

 teriorly; wings elongate, narrow, opaque, Male pygofer rather short, 

 broader than long; aperture large, the genital styles long, narrow, 

 widened apically; anal segment short, anal processes short incurved, 

 nearly meeting in the intermediate line, anal style short ; female py- 

 gofers long, narrow, nearly parallel-sided; last and penultimate ven- 

 tral segment triangularly notched ; ovipositor long, reaching to the 



