126 Mr. James Edwards' Sijnopsis of 



Table op Species. 



1 (1). Pronotum twice or nearly twice as long as 



crown. Insect macropterous. 



2 (3). Pronotum faintly punctured \. puncticeps. 



3 (2). Pronotum transversely striate . . . . 2. venosa. 

 ■i (1). Pronotum only slightly longer than crown. 



Insect brachypterous 3. hrachyptera. 



1. Agallia jnmcticeps, Germ. 



Jassus 'imncticeps, Germ., Faiin. Ins. Eur., 17, 12. 



Agallia eonsohnna, Curt., Ent. Mag., i., 193 ; Marsh., 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., iii., 151, 2. 



A. versicolor, Flor, Ehyn. Liv., ii., 556, 3; Kirschb., 

 Cicad., 150, 3 ; J. Sahl., Not. Fenn., xii., 152, 1. 



A. puncticeps, Scott, Ent. Mo. Mag., x., 236, 1. 



^ . Dirty greyish white. Crown with a round black spot on 

 each side, and in the middle a pair of fine brown parallel lines, 

 which are continued over the forehead beyond the ocelli. Face 

 with a minute black point at each ocellus, from which a brown line 

 runs obliquely outwards and downwards; frons black or dark 

 brown, with a whitish central stripe ; clypeus with a fine dark 

 central stripe. Pronotum with a transverse line behind each eye, 

 a pair of points in the middle of the front margin, a central stripe 

 divided longitudinally by a fine pale line, and a large triangle on 

 each side at the base, its base resting on the hind margin, dark 

 brown or black. Scutellum with a triangle on each side at the 

 base, and generally a pair of points on the disc, dark brown or 

 black. Elytra with a fine line just below the claval suture, the 

 ncr\cs of the clavus, the transverse nerve, and the cubital nerve as 

 far as the fork, white ; the remaining nerves, and the inner margin 

 narrowly, dark brown, the nerves of the disc much widened. 

 Abdomen above black, widely pale at the sides, beneath pale. 

 Legs more or less strijied and banded with black. 



$ . Similar to the male, but the dark markings aro generally 

 paler. The central stripe on the pronotum is apparently never 

 divided by a pale line, the frons is pale, with a row of closely 

 placed very short black transverse lines down each side, the sides 

 of the abdomen above are more widely pale, and there is a black 

 spot on each side of the ventral segments. Length, 2i — SV nun. 



Common on low plants. 



