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of the sanie yellow; parapsides, pleura, sometimes the mesoscutum 

 exGeptiug a central triangulär portion at base, the legs excepting the 

 trochanters, knees, tips of tibiae and sometimes nuich of the whole 

 Joint and the tarsi all of which are pallid, the subniarginal vein and 

 portions of the head dusky greyish; marginal and stigmal veins 

 black, the latter often suffused with pallid, its short neck pallid; fore 

 wings hyaline with the exception of a light snioke-colored round area 

 under the marginal and stigmal veins, bounded by them and the 

 oblique line of discal cilia (distad); in many cases suffused across the 

 wing to the caudal margin; distal end of submarginal vein pallid. 

 Posterior wings hyaline. Antennae honey yellow. Mandibles fuscous. 

 Eyes and ocelli carmine, the former darker, beariiig short stiff hairs; 

 the scutellum bears about four short, stiff setae which are black; 

 they are arranged nearly in a Square; sculpture inconspicuous, the 

 surface of the mesonotum opaque, in certain lights shiny; pubescence 

 sparse. 



Fore wmgs bearing about eighteen longitudinal lines of discal cilia, 

 all the lines regulär and distinct but alternately a line is somewhat 

 fainter, its cilia shorter; the discal ciliation projects proxim.ad beneath 

 the venation in the caudal half of the wing blade and is absent directly 

 beneath the venation; the oblique line of cilia running back from the 

 apex of the stigmal vein is complete and contains about from six to 

 eight cilia; the marginal veiii bears about eight moderate sized black 

 setae from its surface. Antennae moderately clothed with slender, 

 moderately long hairs. 



From 60 specimens, 2/3-inch, objective 1-inch optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb. 



Male: — Length, 0,47 mm, mean. Smaller, more compact. The 

 same as the female but the abdomen is wholly black, excepting the 

 extreme base. 



From 32 specimens, the same optic and objective. 



Described from many specimens of both sexes received for identi- 

 f ication from Dr. L. 0. Howard. They were reared by Mr. E. A. Schwarz 

 from a froth-like egg - mass on the upper surface of a leaf of wild 

 Solanum, collected January 20, 1911 at Paraiso, Ishmaian Canal Zone, 

 Panama. The specimens were enclosed loosely in a vial bearing the 

 data ,,No. 11. Paraiso. Jan. 20. ? Leaf-hoppers on Solanum"; the 

 host egg-masses looked not unlike certain unarmored coccids with 

 ribbed bodies; they were found to contain (April 24, 1911) yellowish 

 eggs containing apparently healthy embryos and as has been implied 

 are apparently jassids. 



H a b i t a t: Isthmus of Panama (Paraiso). 



Typ es: Type No. 13,836, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C., 7 males, 12 fem.ales in xylol-balsam (1 slide). C o - 

 t y p e s — Accession No. 44,266, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History, Urbana, Illinois, 7 males, 15 females, in xylol-balsam 

 (1 slide). 



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