A short description of this species was published by 

 Spinola in 1839, giving North America as its habitat. Since 

 that time it has never been collected and the record has 

 always been a questionable one. A single female was 

 taken on the side of a telegraph pole at Forkville, Miss., 

 September 2, 1921, by Miss Minnie Lee Price, that agrees 

 exactly with the original description and confirms the 

 original statement as to habitat. 



Greenish varied with black. Vertex short, rounded and sinuated 

 in front, the posterior margin broadly and rather deeply emarginate, 

 distinctly foveate; greenish for the most part black with black macu- 

 lations on the anterior margin and both sides. Pronotum with a single 

 median ridge-like keel that does not reach the anterior margin, trans- 

 versely wrinkled. Scutellum tricarinate. Elytra slightly opaque and 

 greenish at their base, spotted or mottled with black, the rest trans- 

 parent, with rather large square cells, more or less mottled with 

 black, especially towards the margins and extremity. Wings hyaline, 

 slightly greenish at their base, the venation brown. Abdomen more 

 or less black above, the sides and margin of each segment, green or 

 yellowish. Body beneath green or yellowish, spotted with black, the 

 venter having a black transverse, oblong spot upon each segment on 

 each side. Hind tibiae with four or five lateral spines; femora twice 

 and the tibiae three times ringed with black; tarsi greenish. 



Length of body 12 mm.; length to tip of elytra 18 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 36 mm. 



THE GENUS CYRPOPTUS STAL 



This genus was erected by Stal in 1862 and is most 

 closely related to Calyptoproctus. It may be readily dis- 

 tinguished by having the vertex obtusely and roundly pro- 

 duced in front beyond the eyes, much flattened, and with- 

 out carinae, the obliquely truncated apices of the elytra, 

 by the bifoveolate pronotum, and the dilated anterior 

 femora. C. suavis Stal, the haplotype of the genus, is 

 known only from Mexico and Guatemala and C. ferrugino- 

 sus Stal from Mexico only. The other three described 

 members of the genus occur in the Southern States. 



Key to the species of Cyrpoptus. 



Costal area nearer the apex subhyaline, a dark fuscous vitta or cloud 

 running from the outer apical angle thru the middle of the corium ; 

 a large species with the vertex short and obtuse belfragei Stal 



Posterior half of elytra hyaline with its fuscous apex bisected by an 

 oblique hyaline vitta; smaller and with the vertex slightly longer, 



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