or PHILADELPHIA. 381 



CERCOPIS Fabr. aerm. 



C. BICINCTA. — Sanguineous ; wings fuscous, bifasclate. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body sanguineous : rostrum blackish at tip : antennae black' 

 ish : vertex with an obsolete dusky band : thorax blackish, 

 edged with sanguineous, except on the posterior part; a rufous 

 band on the middle : scutel blackish, sanguineous each side : 

 hemelytra [ 304 ] blackish, with two yellow or rufous, narrow 

 bands : humerus sanguineous : pleura with one or two large 

 black spots : abdomen, disks of the segments blackish : thighs 

 beneath, and tarsi blackish. 



Length to the tip of the hemelytra two-fifths of an inch. 



Resembles the rubra Linn., and sororia Germ., but is suf- 

 ficiently distinct. It frequently occurs in this State, [Indiana] 

 sometimes in Pennsylvania, and Mr. Nuttall gave me a specimen 

 which he obtained in Arkansaw. 



APHROPHORA Germ. 



1. A. BiLiNEATA. — Grayish j hemelytra with a black abbre- 

 viated line from the humerus. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body above gray : head with an obsolete, double, brownish 

 line : ocelli not very distinct : eyes trilineate with dusky : an- 

 tennre with a fuscous spot at tip : thorax with a hardly percepti- 

 ble, double, brownish line, and another behind the eye : hem- 

 elytra with a longitudinal blackish line from the humerus, 

 parallel with the costal margin, abbreviated at the middle ; costal 

 margin whitish : tergum black ; lateral edge and tip yellowish : 

 beneath yellowish. 



Length to tip of hemelytra less than one-fourth of an inch. 



2. A. QUADRiNOTATA. — Pale ; hemelytra dusky, with two 

 large hyaline costal spots. 



Inhabits the United States. [305] 



Body pale yellowish : head, on the anterior margin beneath, 

 with black spots : rostrum black at tip : stemmata sanguineous : 

 vertex with a longitudinal, slightly elevated line : thorax rather 

 darker behind, and with a slightly elevated longitudinal line : 

 1831.] 



