Pelitropis rotulata VAN DUZEE 

 (1908 Pro. Acad. Sci. Phila., lix, p. 474) 



The original description is quoted here. 



"Pale green obscurely varied with brown. Vertex as long as 

 broad, anterior margin obtusely angled, almost parallel with the 

 posterior; edge carinate all around, median carina distinct, surface 

 depressed with a few lineations, most conspicuous of which are two 

 on the middle and two on either side anteriorly, placed at right angles 

 to and touching the margin. Cheeks before the eyes narrow, pointed, 

 together with the pleurae and sides of the pronotum deeper green, 

 marked with black above under the lateral carinae of the vertex 

 and with a short parallel line below from the anterior angle of the 

 eye. Front almost horizontal, its disk oblong, depressed; its length 

 one-third greater than its width; its sides parallel and its base ob- 

 tusely angled, the apical angles cut off in line with the sides of the 

 clypeus. Clypeus an equilateral triangle, the three sides rectilinear. 

 Ocelli minute, placed next the lower angle of the eye. Antennae 

 placed against the inferior edge of the eye; base green, cylindrical, 

 next joint brown, surmounted by a slender brown seta. Pronotum of 

 about equal length across its whole width, deeply acutely emarginate 

 behind; carinae distinct, the lateral meeting the median before, curved, 

 at first concentric with the anterior edge, almost attaining the promi- 

 nent posterior angles; sides tricarinate behind the eyes, the inferior 

 carina bounded above by a black line, and there are a few obscure 

 marks along the disk anteriorly. Tegulae small with a black disk. 

 Scutellum with some obscure marks on the disk. Elytra pale greenish 

 pellucid, sparsely dotted with black along the nervures of the clavus 

 and corium; those along the costa drawn out in oblique false veinlets; 

 tip of the membrane a little smoky with some of the transverse 

 veins brownish. Beneath deeper green, the legs paler with the tips 

 of the tar sal and tibial spines and a mark on the apex of the femora 

 exteriorly blackish. Length 7 mm." 



A specimen was taken by the writer on a pecan seedling 

 in a nursery at Long Beach, Miss., July, 1920, and several 

 were swept from French Mulberry, Callicarpa americana, 

 and other shrubs at Biloxi, July 23, Gulfport, Miss., July 

 30, and at Port Gibson, July 23, 1921. 



THE GENUS MONOPSIS SPINOLA 



Briefly characterized as follows: Vertex longer than wide, broadly 

 produced beyond the eyes, anterior margin rounded, lateral margins 

 and in the middle strongly carinated, posterior margin angularly 

 emarginate. Frons horizontal, longer than wide, lateral edges and 

 middle thickly carinated. Clypeus short, with a median carina. Ocelli 

 present. Pronotum very narrow, produced in front lobe-shaped, 



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