1918] Phlepsids of Mexico and Central America 383 



Described from a single female from Amula Guerrero, Mex. 

 (H. H. Smith). This is a strikingly distinct species in many 

 characters and unique in the genus in the elongate female 

 segment. 



Phlepsius {lowamis) hebraeus n. sp. (Fig. 2a and b). 



Resembling handlirschi in general form and appearance, slightly 

 smaller; color and marking similar but slightly paler. Length 8.5-9 

 mm. ; width, 3 mm. Vertex transversely convex, one-fourth longer on 

 middle than against eye, twice wider than long, the anterior margin 

 bluntly rounding to front ; front long and narorw, the margin straight 

 to just before the apex. Pronotum broad, the outer angle sharp. 

 Elytra long and narrow; the anteapical cells parallel margined, a num- 

 ber of extra cells on the costa opposite the anteapicals. 



Color. Vertex and face marked as in handlirschi and majestiis. 

 Pronotum pale, irrorate with brown and with a few black spots along 

 the anterior sub-margin. Elytra as in handlirschi but lacking the rufous 

 cast and usually with a few definite light spots in the apical cells. 



Genitalia. Female segment moderately long, posterior margin 

 slightly concave with a small semi-circular median notch. 



Described from eight females, one from Vienna Museum, 

 labeled "Mexico, Coll. Sign. Jassus hehrceus Stal {hebrceus det. 

 Sign)," and seven from Amula Guerrero Mex. (H. H. Smith). 



Phlepsius (lowanus) handlirschi n. sp. (Fig. 3b, c, and d). 



Form and general appearance of majestiis Osbom and Ball. Slightly 

 smaller and with a narrower vertex. General color, fulvous brown. 

 Vertex pale yellow with a broad band and two sub-apical spots black. 

 Length 9-10 mm.; width 3-3.5 mm. Vertex and face as in hebrceus. 

 Elytra slightly broader and less flaring, second and third apical cells 

 long and curved. 



Color. Vertex pale yellow, a transverse band behind the ocelli 

 widening on the disc and interrupted in the middle, and a pair of spots 

 in front of this, black; this band incloses a yellow dot against each eye. 

 Face pale sordid yellow. Short brown arcs on front and a dark ocellate 

 spot on clypeus. Pronotum pale, coarsely irrorate with fulvous brown, 

 the anterior sub-margin with coarse ocellate dark spots. Elytra pale,' 

 rather sparsely inscribed with fulvous; three dark spots along the 

 suture. 



Genitalia. Female segment short, transverse; posterior margin, 

 nearly straight, the median third produced on each side of a narrow 

 median notch extending over half way to the base; angles next this 

 notch acute. Male valve semi-circular, plates long, acutely triangular, 

 the extreme tips rounding, three times as long as the valve. 



