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Cephalic process short, broad at the base, with a round apex, ver- 

 tex short, as long as the eye, margins carinate. Front five carinate, with 

 median tablet tricarinate, the lateral carinas roundingly uniting before 

 the apex of the vertex. Clypeus broad, tricarinate. The eye set into the 

 curve of the pronotum, without callosity. Pronotum short, transverse, 

 without median tablet, entirely pustulate. Central tablet of the scu- 

 tellum broad, without pustules. Elytra brachypterous, irregularly 

 reticulate. Abdomen obese, oval. Abdominal segments with a row of 

 pustules on the outer margin of the posterior two-thirds. Rostrum dis- 

 tinctly exceeding abdomen. Anterior and middle tibia linear, not 

 foliaceous; hind tibia with 6-7 spines. 



Type of the genus Ticidia cingidata Uhl. 

 Ticidia cingulata Uhl. 



Ticidia cingulata Uhl., Trans. Md. Acad. Sc, I, p. 144, 1891. 



Loxophora transversa Van Duzee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., LIX, p. 473, 1908. 



Resembling Timodema miracula but smaller and with the 

 fore and middle tibia normal. A small oval species trans- 

 versely banded with gray and white. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Cephalic process short, extending only slightly in front of the 

 curve of the eyes. Front broad, distinctly wider than the eye. The 

 single carina above the frontal tablet nearly as long as the vertex. 

 Vertex wider than long, not extending beyond the eyes, obtusely tri- 

 angular, posterior third with a strongly carinated margin, median 

 carina obscure or wanting. Legs nonnal, anterior and middle tibia not 

 foliaceous. 



Color — ^Ashy gray, transversely banded with fuscous and white as 

 follows: A narrow light band across the scutellum, a broader one across 

 the apical half of the elytra and a third across the apex of abdomen. 

 There is a pitchy black band across the face just below the eyes, bor- 

 dered below by an ivory white one. 



This species is evidently widely distributed over the desert 

 region of south Utah as it has been taken at various places from 

 Moab to St. George, Utah. It also occurs in a number of situa- 

 tions in south California from Cabozon to Ravenna. In all 

 cases it has been found strictly around open spaces in the 

 desert regions. The only plant which occurs in all these loca- 

 tions is the bush atriplex {A . Canescens) and it has usually been 

 found closely associated with this plant. Adults have been 

 captured from June 10 in hot situations to August 10 in cooler 

 ones. 



