stripes somewhat resembling bivittata but with a much longer vertex 

 and broader face. Length, female 2.5 mm.; male 2 mm. 



Vertex definitely longer than pronotum, obtusely angulate at 

 apex and again before the eyes, where it is narrower than the margin 

 of the face. Face extending out to the line of the eyes giving the 

 appearance of a parallel margined vertex but really exposing a tri- 

 angular pustulate compartment. Face sloping at an angle of nearly 

 45 degrees, broader than long, conically inflated with a sharp median 

 carina and wing-like lateral ones. Clypeus broad, tumid, but little more 

 retreating than the face. Brachypterous elytra shp^- ;Vffth but ftiw; 

 simple veins. Color: female white, fading to straw, with a slightly' 

 iridescent greenish cast. A narrow median black, -line fr4m th* base 

 of the vertex to an expanded spot on the apex of ' abdomen. Eyed 

 dark, a narrow black line running back parallel with a similar line 

 on the costa. Circular carinae on each segment of abdomen narrowly 

 black from the margin to a pair of irregular stripes arising just in- 

 side the lines on the elytra. Below greenish; a smoky arc slightly 

 below the vertex margin. 



Male: like the female except that there is a broad shining black 

 band extending from the upper part of front across the eyes and in- 

 cluding the outer third of the elytra and abdomen. Clypeus and legs 

 except the joints dark. Sometimes there are traces of a pair of con- 

 verging stripes arising on the lateral carinae of the scutellum and 

 following the inner fork of the claval nervures. 



Holotype female, allotype male and four pairs of paratypes col- 

 lected by the writer at Sanford, Fla. This is a strikingly distinct little 

 species which has been found only on the wetter portions of the "flat 

 woods'" and along the margins of swamps." Dr. Ball has presented 

 the writer with a pair of this distinct species. 



Aphelonema viridis, new species 



Resembling most closely nigriviridia Ball but slightly 

 smaller with a shorter vertex, and more rounding frons. 

 The pale green color of the female and rosy orange abdo- 

 men of the male will easily distinguish it. 



Vertex about three times as wide as its median length, somewhat 

 hexagonal, the front corners slightly rounded. Frons rather short, 

 sides rounded, with three carinae, the outer bent almost in the form 

 of a semicircle; outside of these there are two rows of pustules. An- 

 tennae very short, the seta also short. Pronotum slightly shorter 

 than the vertex, with a median carina, and coarsely pustulated on 

 the sides. Scutellum tricarinate, with coarse pustules outside of the 

 lateral carinae. Elytra short, truncate, the nervures rather indistinct. 

 Abdomen with median keel on dorsum, a single row of pustules on 

 sides of each segment. 



Female very pale green in color, except the dark green eyes and 

 two small black spots on the last two abdominal segments along the 



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