both of which have been taken by the writer in Mississippi. 

 A third species is here described for the first time. 



Members of this genus hold their wings in a character- 

 istic horizontal position backwards. So far as is known 

 they are all bush and tree-loving forms with a number of 

 different hosts. 



Key to the species. 



Color pale sanguineous, elytra transparent milky-white, dusky at 



base mcateei Dozier 



Color pale sanguineous, elytra transparent with basal third and 



a broad band before the apex, fuscous uhleri Van D. 



Color pale yellowish-white, elytra smoky, twice banded with 



white, hyaline areas reflecting iridescence fitchi Van D. 



Amalopota uhleri VAN DUZEE 

 (1889 Can. Ent, xxi, p. 178) 



Recorded from Ont, N. Y. and 111. 



Beautifully marked species. Pale sanguineous, elytra transparent 

 with the basal third and a broad band before the apex fuscous, the 

 latter marked with sanguineous towards the costa. The whole insect, 

 when fresh, covered with a white bloom, most conspicuous on the 

 face and abdomen. 



Body color sanguineous, the head, thorax and antennae fulvous, 

 the abdomen deep sanguineous. Head, viewed from the side, with 

 carinae and vertex gradually rounded; vertex very narrow, the carinae 

 crested with white, rostrum pale. Eyes greenish-brown. Ocelli pale. 

 Antennae of the female pale reddish-brown, cylindrical, reaching to 

 the tip of the head; the second segment somewhat compressed, a 

 little widened at the apex, which is obliquely and concavely trun- 

 cated for the reception of the seta or bristle; in the male this second 

 segment is a little longer and wider than in the female, and is more 

 compressed, with the margins thickened and the surface more dis- 

 tinctly papillated; a minute notch, almost at the end, bears a bristle 

 which is a little longer than the width of the segment. Pronotum 

 widened to an almost quadrangular scale behind the eye; the central 

 carina of the scutellum inconspicuous, the lateral carinae almost 

 obsolete. Elytra, when closed, extending about two-thirds of their 

 length beyond the abdomen, transparent, the basal third smoky- 

 brown excepting the humerus and costal region; a broad brown band 

 occupies the apical third of the costa, and narrows to about one-half 

 of this width at the internal apical angle, omits six of the apical 

 areoles; the veins are sanguineous within the limits of the brown, 

 apical band, and in the stigmatal region are broadly bordered with 

 the same color; there are veins of this color also in the basal brown 



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