1923] The Fulgorid^ of Eastern North America 201 



meeting on the median line, anal style short, blunt, barely produced 

 beyond the anal segment ; last ventral segment of the female triangu- 

 larly notched to the base ; pygof ers subterete, exceeding the ovipositors 

 slightly ; anal segment short and broad, posterior margin roundlj^ ex- 

 cavated, anal style elongate, subconical. 



Color : General color of the male, blackish fuscous, pale yellow 

 and whitish; vertex, disk of the pro-and mesonotum pale yellowish 

 white; frons, clypeus, ventral portion of the gen^, breast plates and 

 lateral areas of the mesonotum blackish fuscous; fore wings blackish 

 fuscous; scutellar angle, apex of the clavus, broad triangular marks 

 on the costal and anal borders whitish; legs pale yellowish with the 

 spines and teeth on the calcar and the claws black; abdomen largely 

 blackish fuscous, a row of ochraceous orange spots on each segment ; 

 the penultimate and last ventral segments and the pygof er ochraceous 

 orange, the latter more or less clouded with fuscous apically. The 

 female that I associate with this species is almost entirely pale yel- 

 ,lowish with the eyes clouded with brownish; the clypeus pale ochra- 

 ceous buff; the spines, teeth and claws of the leg black; the wings 

 heavily clouded with fuscous apically. 



Length, male apex of head to apex of abdomen 2.50 mm. ; to the 

 tip of wing 3.15 mm. ; across the tegular .50 mm. • female, apex of 

 head to apex of abdomen 3.15 mm. ; to the tip of the wing 3.85 mm. ; 

 width across the tegulas .70 mm. 



Holotype S . Loma, Texas, December 11, 1910. In the collection 

 of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 



Allotype 9 . Loma, Texas, December 11, 1910. 



Paratype 1 $ . Sarita, Texas, December 5, 1911. 



Paratype 1 S . Ocean Springs, Miss., August 15, 1921. H. L. 

 Dozier. 



Megamelus distinctus n. sp. 



Figs. 408, 649 



This species may be recognized by its pale frons with the black 

 clypeus and distinct genitalia. 



Vertex about three times as long as broad, rounded before; frons 

 much narrower between the eyes, nearly twice as wide below; an- 

 tennae short, first segment nearly as long as the second; pronotum 

 short, lateral carinae straight and reaching posterior margin; meso- 



