Descriptions of some new North American 

 Homopterous Insects 



Bv E. P. VAN DUZEE, Buffalo, N. Y. 



I. IDIOCERUS, NERVATUS, n. sp. 



Small, Pale green, sometimes paler and tinged with yellow beneath 

 especially on the face. Pronotum in clearly marked examples showing 

 three longitudinal pale vitta;. Basal angles of the scutellum with a blackish 

 spot mostly covered by the pronotum which is there discolored. Elytra 

 hyaline with the nervures very indistinct; the costal, and sometimes one 

 of the discal, pale greenish. Wings hyaline, iridescent, with strong brown 

 nervures which are visible through the elytra as oblique brown lines. 

 Tergum and at times the femora tinged with yellow. Tibia? and tarsi 

 green with brown spines. Length 4-4 j^ mm. 



The front is broader in this species than in pallidiis, its nearest ally, 

 with its sides more oblique and the apex of the clypeus less abruptly expan- 

 ded. Two last ventral segments of the female of nearly equal length, the 

 ultimate a very little subangularly advanced at the middle, the edge either 

 side nearly rectilinear to the rounded lateral angles. Its form is thus very 

 similar to that of afiuvmi/s. In the males the slender plates are much shorter 

 than in palltdiis, extending for only about two thirds the length of the 

 pygofers. 



N. v., N. J., Mich. Described from one male and four 

 female examples : One pair taken by me at Lancaster, N. Y. 

 June 28th, 1889; a female taken in New York City by 

 Mr. E. B. Southwick, another taken at Anj^lesea, N. J. May 

 28th, by Prof. J. B. Smith and one from Ag'ricultural College 

 Mich., received from Mr. G. C. Davis. 



This .species may be recognized by its small size, green 

 color, the dusky basal angles of the scutellum, and the brown 

 nervures of the wings which are plainly visible through the 

 hyaline elytra. This may be the Bythoscopus obsolctus of Walker 

 but it is impossible to decide without an examination of his type. 



2. PLATYMETOPIUS LORICATUS n. sp. 



Small. Dark brown varied with whitish, face entirely pale yellow. 

 Last ventral segment of the male angularly excavated, valve broadly 

 vounded behind. Length, 4 mm. 



Vertex well produced, subacute, twice as long on the middle as next 

 the eye, the edges before the eyes feebly convexly arquated, the hind edge 

 almost angularly excavated. Front unusually narrow, the clypeus a little 



