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Florida Entomologist 
Official Organ of the Florida Entomological Society 
VOL. VI AUTUMN NUMBER No. 2 
SEPTEMBER, 1922 
NEW SPECIES OF CICADELLIDAE FROM THE SOUTHERN 
U. S. (Homoptera) 
HERBERT OSBORN 
Deltocephalus limicelus, n. sp. 
Dark gray with fuscous markings; numerous reticulate lines and cross 
nervures on the eytra. Length, female 3.75 mm; male 3.6 mm. 
Head wider than pronotum; vertex wider than long, one-half longer at 
middle than next the eye, obtusely angulate; margin subangulate to front; 
front broad, lateral borders curved; clypeus with sides nearly parallel; 
cheeks broad and deeply sinuate.. Pronotum as long as vertex, truncate 
behind; scutellum small; elytral venation irregular, the clavus with numer- 
ous irregular reticulations, and the anteapical cells broken by irregular 
cross veinlets. 
Color: Gray; vertex ivory whitish with four dots on the anterior bor- 
der, two lunate spots midway and two rounded ocellate spots on the hind 
border, fuscous. Pronotum fuscous with five gray stripes, the inner three 
connected by cross-band near the front; scutellum with ivory spots each 
side; elytral veins and veinlets mostly ivory white, the areoles mostly 
fuscous, the first apical areole densely black, the others with whitish cen- 
ters bordered with smoky; front pale fuscous with transverse whitish ares 
and a central whitish line; clypeus dull white with smoky borders; lorae 
light yellow, with dusky margin; cheeks dull gray, legs fuscous, banded and 
striped with dull white; abdomen beneath blackish, the borders of segments 
and the outer part of pygofer lighter. 
Genitalia: Female, last ventral segment short; hind border truncate or 
slightly concave; pale whitish, bordered with fuscous; side plates conspicu- 
ous. Male, valve short, transverse, broadly rounded behind; plates broad 
at base, narrowing rapidly, terminating in acute thin slightly upturned tips 
not attaining the tip of the pygofer. 
Numerous specimens were collected at St. Petersburg, Fla., February 
and March, 1921, on a creeping succulent plant growing in a tidal flat 
and associated with fiddler crabs and snails. Type and paratypes in 
author’s collection. Superficially this species bears some resemblance to 
arundineus, but the details of the color pattern are different, the body 
is more robust, and there are distinct differences in the genitalia. 
Deltocephalus fusconotatus, n. sp. 
Ivory whitish with numerous fuscous spots on pronotum, scutellum and 
base of elytra. Length, male 3.5 mm. 
