varied with brown, and with a series of black, indented points across 

 it, the tegular pieces a little confluently punctate; pleura washed 

 with pale brown and flecked with dark brown; legs flecked with 

 fuscous, the tibiae with two or more dark, band-like shades; hemely- 

 tra infuscated, moderately flat, the costal margin very feebly ar- 

 cuated, a broad longitudinal vitta extending to the tip, a streak on 

 the suture of the clavus, several coalescing spots running back from 

 the apex interiorly, and interrupted flecks on the nervures dark 

 brown; the costal area whitish throughout, nervures stout, the first 

 ulnar neivure forked considerably behind the middle, and the second 

 ulnar forked at a little distance behind the middle. Wings smoky, 

 the nervures darkened. Disk of tergum black, with the sides orange- 

 yellow. Venter faintly brownish, flecked with yellowish. 



Length from tip of head to end of hemelytra, 7 to 8 millimeters. 

 Width of pronotum, 2 1-4 to 2 1-2 millimeters. Length of cephalic 

 horn, 1 1-2 millimeters." 



The writer has specimens collected at Pascagoula, Miss., that he 

 believes belong to this species. 



THE GENUS PHYLLOSCELIS GERMAR 



This genus consists of two species and a variety and 

 these are among the most curious-looking members of the 

 family. They occur in both macropterous and brachyp- 

 terous forms, but the long-winged specimens are met with 

 only occasionally. The adults, which are extremely variable in 

 size, structure, color and habits, are characterized by having 

 a short vertex, prominent eyes and leaf -like front femora. 

 The hind legs can be doubled up tightly, the tibiae fitting 

 into grooves in the distal part of the femora, and are armed 

 with a row of four to six spines on the outer carina and a 

 crown of eight stout spines on the tip. The legs are 

 powerful jumping organs. 



Key to the species of Phylloscelis 



Dark fuscous, usually black, the frons fuscous; venation not promi- 

 nent, atra Germ. 



Grayish-yellow, thickly and finely dotted with black, venation promi- 

 nent, frons thickly and finely dotted with white, the clypeus with 

 black transverse-oblique bands, pallescens Germ. 



Phylloscelis atra GERMAR 

 (1839 Zeit. fur. Ent., i, p. 192). 



Recorded from N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., D. C., Va., N. C., 



Ga., Fla., Miss., Ohio, Kans., Mo., 111., Ark., Okla. and Texas. 



This species is one of the few fulgorids that are of real 



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