112 HOMOPTERA 



pronotum. Head triangular, roughly sculptured ; base weakly arcuate ; eyes ovate ; ocelli inconspic 

 uous, about equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated slightly below a Hne drawn 

 through centers of eyes; inferior margins of gense sinuate; clypeus extending for half its length below 

 inferior margins of genae. Pronotum highly convex without horns or other processes; posterior half 

 strongly inflated and then suddenly narrowed into a blunt posterior process which reaches to a point 

 about half way between internal angles and tips of tegmina; metopidium convex, wider than high; 

 humeral angles weakly produced; median carina percurrent. Tegmina almost entirely exposed; 

 hyaline or smoky-hyahne; three roughly parallel longitudinal veins with the two inner ones connected 

 by a cross-vein; five apical and one discoidal cell; apical limbus broad. Legs simple and cyhndrical; 

 all tarsi about equal in length. 



Type inflatus Van Duzee. 



Geographical distribution : A North American genus limited in distribution according to 

 present records to the United States and Canada but represented in practically all parts of these two 

 countries. 



1. altus Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. ^5. 8i (1932). Arizona. 



2. arenatus Ball, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. XXVH : 481 (1937). Texas. 



3. coconinus Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 45. 80 (1932). Arizona. 



4. hirsulus Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 45. 81 (1932). Arizona. 



5. inflalus Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb. 97. 3 (1908). Colorado, Arizona. 



6. lateralis Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb. 96. 2 (1908). New York, Connecticut. 



7. muticus Fabricius, Gen. Ins. Mant. 297. 12 (1776). — Pl. 6, fig, 66. Quebec, central and eastern 



trilineata Say, Narr. Long's Exped. 3oo. 2 (1824). United StateS. 



8. nigrocincta Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 46. 26 (1933). Arizona. 



9. nitidus Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb. 97. 4 (1908). Eastern and southern United 



States. 



10. tttmidus Walker, List Hom. B. M. 56o. 14 (i85i). Florida. 



79. GENUS EVASHMEADEA GODING 



Evashmeadea Goding, Cat. Memb. N. A. 436 (1894). 

 Ashmeadea (nom. nud.) Goding, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XIX : 258 (1892). 



Characters : A genus belonging to the Cyrtolobus group but distinguished by the low dis- 

 tinctly sinuate dorsum. Head subquadrate with apex regularly rounded; base gently arcuate; eyes 

 globular; oceUi large, equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated sUghtly below a Une 

 drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae rounded; clypeus short, not extending below 

 inferior margins of genae and continuing the curve made by these margins. Pronotum low, hghtly 

 compressed, strongly keeled, distinctly sinuate at middle ; metopidium sloping, wider than high; median 

 carina strongly percurrent ; humeral angles weak, triangular, blunt ; apex of posterior process grad- 

 uaUy acute, extending to a point about half way between internal angles and tips of tegmina. Tegmina 

 hyaUne, the clavus and a smaU part of the corium covered by the pronotum; three contiguous longi- 

 tudinal veins; with a cross-vein connecting the inner pair; median apical ceU petiolate; frve apical 

 and two discoidal ceUs; apical Umbus broad. Legs simple and subcyUndrical; aU tarsi about equal 

 in length. 



