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  I'liOCFEDlXdS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MISEUM. 
  

  

  Figs. 
  7« 
  ami 
  ' 
  

  

  .—Vertex 
  and 
  piionotum, 
  and 
  ei-ytron 
  ok 
  

   empoas(^a 
  mexicana. 
  

  

  posterior 
  margin, 
  uDtl 
  .ibout 
  midway 
  between 
  the 
  compound 
  eyes 
  an 
  

   the 
  median 
  line. 
  Pronotum 
  not 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  head, 
  one 
  and 
  one 
  ha 
  i 
  

   times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  vertex 
  and 
  one 
  and 
  three-fourths 
  times 
  as 
  broad 
  a3 
  

   long. 
  The 
  color 
  is 
  yellow, 
  somewhat 
  washed 
  with 
  green 
  and 
  with 
  three 
  

   white 
  spots, 
  one 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  and 
  one 
  back 
  o 
  

   each 
  compound 
  eye; 
  in 
  one 
  specimen 
  a 
  whitish 
  line 
  extends 
  from 
  tin 
  

   first 
  of 
  these 
  s])ots 
  to 
  the 
  scutelluin. 
  Scutellum 
  yellow 
  with 
  the 
  ape:« 
  

   and 
  a 
  uiediaii 
  longitudinal 
  line 
  white, 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  spot 
  near 
  each 
  basal 
  

   angle 
  green. 
  Elytra 
  with 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  clavus, 
  a 
  line 
  below 
  the 
  claval 
  

   suture 
  ami 
  a 
  broad 
  costal 
  margin 
  golden 
  yellow, 
  apex 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   nervures 
  milky. 
  Wing 
  venation 
  normal. 
  Abdomen 
  greenish 
  yellow 
  

  

  above 
  and 
  below, 
  the 
  pygof- 
  

   ers 
  rather 
  deep 
  green, 
  last 
  

   ventral 
  segment 
  of 
  female 
  

   moderately 
  produced 
  and 
  

   evenly 
  i-ounded. 
  Legs 
  yel- 
  

   lowish 
  with 
  tips 
  of 
  tibiae 
  

   and 
  tarsi 
  blue. 
  In 
  some 
  

   specimens 
  the 
  white 
  markings 
  are 
  faint 
  and 
  the 
  green 
  of 
  the 
  scutellum 
  

   entirely 
  wanting. 
  (See 
  Figs. 
  70, 
  77.) 
  

   Type.—Eo. 
  3430, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Described 
  from 
  five 
  females 
  collected 
  near 
  Vera 
  Oruz, 
  Mexico, 
  by 
  

   Eev. 
  n. 
  Th. 
  Heyde. 
  

  

  EMPOASCA 
  RADIATA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Color 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  green, 
  with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  longitudiua 
  

   markings. 
  Length, 
  2.75 
  mm. 
  

  

  Face 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  green 
  above, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  deeper 
  green, 
  face 
  fully 
  

   one-fourth 
  longer 
  than 
  

   broad, 
  clypeus 
  fully 
  one- 
  

   third 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  

   face, 
  rather 
  pointed 
  below 
  

   and 
  exceeding 
  the 
  genae 
  

   by 
  nearly 
  one-third 
  its 
  

   length. 
  Vertex 
  consider- 
  

   ably 
  in-oduced, 
  its 
  length 
  being 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  breadth 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  

   two 
  and 
  one-half 
  times, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  pronotum 
  one 
  and 
  one-half 
  times; 
  

   the 
  color 
  is 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  or 
  greenish, 
  and 
  there 
  are 
  three 
  distinct 
  

   longitudinal 
  paler 
  stripes 
  upon 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  better 
  marked 
  specimens, 
  but 
  

   in 
  some 
  these 
  stripes 
  are 
  obsolete. 
  Pronotum 
  scarcely 
  wider 
  than 
  the 
  

   head, 
  distinctly 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long; 
  the 
  color 
  is 
  very 
  pale 
  

   green 
  and 
  yeUow, 
  there 
  being 
  in 
  the 
  best 
  marked 
  specimens 
  one 
  median 
  

   and 
  two 
  lateral 
  greenish 
  lines, 
  and 
  two 
  dorsal 
  and 
  two 
  lateral 
  orange 
  

   yellow 
  lines. 
  The 
  orange 
  coloration 
  is 
  rather 
  dilute 
  and 
  in 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   specimens 
  is 
  wanting. 
  Scutellum 
  pale 
  greenish. 
  Elytra 
  dilute 
  milky, 
  

   the 
  nervures 
  whitish 
  and 
  having 
  about 
  three 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  

   dilute 
  orange 
  colored 
  lines, 
  one 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  claval 
  suture 
  and 
  

  

  Figs 
  

  

  78 
  ami 
  79.— 
  Vertex 
  and 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  elytron 
  of 
  em- 
  

  

  POASCA 
  RADIATA. 
  

  

  