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Female holo-type and two female para-types in The Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History Collection. Male allo-type, 

 four male para-types and two female para-types in H. G. 

 Barber's collection. Three female para-types in U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Coll. Three female and three male para-types in author's 

 collection. 



Cicadella hieroglyphica var. inscripta n. var. 



Shape and size similar to hieroglyphica. Face yellow, mottled with 

 brownish. Vertex bright yellow, the disk washed with green, usual 

 markings shining black, apical spot prominent. Pronotum dark 

 bluish-green on disk, anterior margin more or less bright yellow, with 

 a series of prominent black inscriptions across the entire width, which 

 is vanishing in some specimens. vScutellum yellow with usual black 

 margins. Elytra bright bluish-green with the margin of the claval 

 suture yellowish-green, and the costal margins yellow to yellowish- 

 green. Face mottled with testaceous. Venter and all beneath pale 

 yellow, except the claws, which are dark, and a few fuscous spots on 

 the sternum of some of the specimens. 



Five females, three labeled "Arizona (Col. Baker)," one 

 "Pecos ,New Mexico, Aug. 26 Ckll., Verhesina exauriculata,'' 

 (Probably food plant), one "Colorado Springs, Colo., July 21, 

 77." All from the U. S. Nat. Mus., Washington, D. C. 



Female holo-type and three female para-types in U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. one female para-type in author's collection. 



Cicadella confluens Uhler, 1862. 



When Uhler described this species he placed it in the genus 

 Proconia and compared it with Proconia costalis, now known 

 as Oncometopia lateralis Fabricius. From this it is evident that 

 the insect he described appeared to him rather closer related to 

 lateralis than to any of the Tettigonia species. It is not easy to 

 say why he did this for his species lacks characters to admit it 

 into this group, perhaps its appearance was rather coarse for 

 Tettigonia. 



Ball, 1901, reduced Uhler's confluens to a variety of hiero- 

 glyphica and described two other varieties, dolohrata and 

 uhleri. After studying a considerable number of specimens I 

 have come to the conclusion that confluens should be considered 

 as a distinct species with uhleri as a variety of it. These always 

 possess the broadening and shortening of the vertex which Dr. 

 Ball, 1901, refers to in the introduction of his paper. Besides 



