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sight to indicate that it probably belongs to Palecphora or its near 

 vicinity, but not enough to properly characterize it. The tegmina, 

 however, were about two and a half times as long as broad, and 

 punctate throughout, but not deeply and rather distantly, especially 

 near the base ; it appears also to have been of a light testaceous color, 

 and to have been traversed by three narrow, transverse, black or 

 blackish belts (not shown in the figure) of somewhat irregular and 

 broken course, one just before the middle, one midway between this 

 and the base, and one midway between the median belt and the tip. 

 The iieuration of the wings, the only part at all shown, and in a 

 fragmentary way, is apparently very similar to that of Palecphora. 



Length of tegmina, 25""".; breadth, 9.75"'™. 



North Fork of S'milkameen River. — One specimen. No. 93ab, 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson, 1888.. 



Stenecphora (fTTcV'^. \y.(fiii>d) Gen. nov. 



This new type of CercopidiB is to be characterized only from its 

 tegmina, which have a remarkably broad apex, a very slender clavus, 

 and radial and ulnar veins that fork extremely far towai'ds the base, 

 the former at about the middle of the basal half of the tegmina, the 

 latter still earlier ; they are all united by delicate continuous trans- 

 versals at about the base of the apical sixth of the wings and beyond 

 that fork more or less, or send from the transversals delicate shoots, 

 forming between them the apical cells ; similar shoots are thrown off 

 to the costal margin by the apical half of the upper branch of the 

 radial nervure before the transversals. 



A single species has been found. 



Stenecphora punctulata. 



PI. I, fig. 9. 



Apparently the tegmina are of uniform width, but the clavus is not 

 preserved (though it must have been very slender, to judge from the 

 rest of the tegmina) with the apex rather broadly rounded, and the 

 costa tolerably straight but slightly, broadly, and roundly bent 

 opposite the divarication of the radial vein, to form a shoulder. The 

 tegmina are almost uniformly dark brownish fuliginous, profusely 

 and uniformly punctulate, and most of the minor veinlets at the 

 extreme apex of the wing are forked just before the margin. The 

 base of the wing is broken so that the exact length cannot be 



