This species has heretofore been recorded only from 

 No. Car. and Florida. It was swept in abundance from 

 marsh grass (Juncus) and underbrush on Cat Island, seven 

 miles off the Mississippi Coast, by the writer Sept. 7, 1920. 

 At Gainesville, Florida, it was found by him breeding on 

 the stems of young hickory shrubs. 



Fig. 28 Cyarda melichari Van Duzee (original). 



Cyarda melichari VAN DUZEE 



(1907 Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., viii, No. 5, p. 40, n. n. for punctata 



Melichar) 



Elytra strongly narrowed, yellowish-brown with black spots. 



Elytra and entire body yellowish-brown. Vertex between the eyes 

 twice as wide as long in the middle, rounded in front, the somewhat 

 darker colored anterior margin slightly raised, with two deep parallel, 

 longitudinal furrows. Front about as long as its width at the middle, 

 narrower at the clypeus than the above margin, the sides weakly 

 bent and carinated. Pronotum as long as vertex, with two small pit- 

 like grooves, very faintly tricarinate. Scutellum strongly flattened, 

 the flattened disc being defined by two parallel lateral carinae. Elytra 

 three times as long as wide at the broadest point, behind the base 

 strongly bent outwards and then sharply narrowed to the sub-acute 

 tip, yellowish-brown with black spots that are nearly equidistant from 

 each other; axillary protuberance or hump (viewed from above) 

 prominent; small tubercles at the base of the clavus, near the axillary 

 hump, and at the base of the costal membrane; costal membrane 

 a little wider than the costal cells and supplied with numerous simple 

 cross-veins; longitudinal veins not black. Wings smoky-brown. 



Length of body 5 mm. ; length to tip of elytra 7-8 mm. 



THE SUBFAMILY DERBINAE SPINOLA 

 (Spinola, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., viii, pp. 205, 377, Derboides.) 



This subfamily contains the most delicate and remark- 

 able forms among the fulgoridae. It is well represented in 

 the United States by seven genera, numbering thirty-two 

 species at present. From Muir's study of the "Derbidae of 



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