1923] The Fulgorid^ of Eastern North America 203 



plates flat, obtuse at the apex ; genital styles short, about half as long 

 as the genital plates; genital hooks wanting; anal processes four, 

 horn-like. 



Color : General color blackish fuscous, a broad median vitta pale 

 yellow; frons, antennge, legs and venter, except the abdomen, pale 

 yellow. 



Length, apex of head to apex of abdomen 2.50 mm. 



Holotype $ . Carolina Beach, N. C, June 7, 1920. Z. P. Metcalf . 



Megamelus inflatus n. sp. 



Figs. 406, 646 



This species may be recognized by its almost uniform pale yellow 

 color with the pygofer of the male strongly inflated, genital hooks 

 united into a single obtuse process. 



Vertex rather broad, strongly produced ; frons narrowed between 

 the eyes, broadened apically, the median frontal carinse forming a 

 distinct callosity at the apex of the head ; antenna long ; first segment 

 almost as long as the second ; pronotum elongate, with a distinct im- 

 pressed point either side of the median carina; intermediate carinae 

 strongly divergent, reaching the posterior border; mesonotum about 

 as long as the pronotum ; calcars small ; less than half as long as the 

 basal segment of the tarsus; male pygofer strongly inflated; genital 

 plates flat, incurved at the apex with a small median tooth between ; 

 genital styles short, about half as long as the genital plates, obtuse at 

 the apex ; genital hooks united on the median line then produced into 

 an elongate obtuse process; anal segments short, anal processes not 

 produced. 



Color: General color pale yellow, the frons, antennae and eyes 

 and the lateral margins of the abdomen a little darker. 



Length, apex of head to apex of abdomen 2.10 mm. 



Holotype $ . Mill Neck, New York, June 19. N. Banks. In the 

 collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Paratype $ . Mill Neck, New York. June 19, N. Banks. 



This distinct little species has evidently been confused in the past 

 with Megamelus notulus but the male genitalia are entirely distinct. 



