Color: General color pale, more or less variegated with brownish 

 and blackish fuscous; vertex, pro- and mesonotum uniformly ochra- 

 ceous brown; frons ochraceous brown, the lateral margins alternate 

 with black and ivory white, the narrow transverse band ivory white, 

 basal third of ' the clypeus ivory white, the apex brownish ; wings 

 largely pale ochraceous yellow, irregularly variegated with brownish 

 and blackish fuscous; venter and legs mostly ochraceous brown. 



Length, apex of head to apex of abdomen, 4.70 mm.; to the tips of 

 wings 6.20 mm." 



Catonia lunata METCALF 

 (1923 Jr. Elisha Mitchell Soc., 38, p. 178). 



Described from material from Florida, North Carolina, 

 Massachusetts, and Long Island, N. Y. 



"This species may be recognized by its small size, black- 

 ish color and broad strongly produced vertex with the frons 

 brown with a broad transverse pale band in the middle and 

 a shorter pale bar at the apex. 



Vertex strongly produced but little narrowed anteriorly; frons 

 broad, not much narrowed at the base or at the apex; wings strongly 

 punctate. 



Color: General color blackish; vertex pale yellow, with two 

 elongate dashes next the inner margins of the eyes and two near 

 the median carina anteriorly; frons brown, the lateral margins alter- 

 nate with black and ivory white, the transverse band broad ivory white, 

 a small ivory white bar along the clypeal margin; clypeus mostly 

 pale; pronotum with the carinae broadly pale, leaving small blackish 

 spots in the compartments; mesonotum blackish, with the carinae 

 pale and a few small tawny spots; fore wings blackish fuscous varie- 

 gated with ivory white; venter largely tawny yellow, legs brownish 

 fuscous; abdomen blackish. 



Length, apex of head to apex of vertex, 4.00 mm.; to the apex 

 of the wings 4.30 mm." 



THE SUBFAMILY CIXIINAE (SPINOLA) 



Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., viii, pp. 202, 311, 1839 

 Cixioides. 



This subfamily contains nine genera that are known 

 from North America, three of which are recorded only from 

 California. 



In members of this group a third ocellus is present, 

 placed at the apex of the frontal carina and the elytra are 

 not reticulated apically. The female of most Cixiids bears 

 at the apex of the abdomen a large tuft of fine snow-white 



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