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STENOCRANUS PALAETUS, n. sp. 



Form and size of dorsalis. Color fulvous yellow above, paler beneath ; 

 median line on the base of the vertex, disk of the pronotum between the 

 lateral carin^c and apex of the scutelluno, whitish. Frontal iovvc interrup- 

 tedly black over the apex of the head from the base of the antennae to the 

 middle of the vertex ; face crossed by a brown band below the antenna;, and 

 another crosses the base of the clypeus and extends over the anterior coxae 

 and pleural pieces. Apex of the front and its median carina interruptedly 

 pale. First joint of the antennas a little shorter than the second, blackish, 

 the base of the second with a piceous spot. Eyes black. Legs pale, the 

 femora lineated and the tibitt; twice banded with brown. 



Elytra subhyaline, nervures yellowish, the commissural white with a 

 brown line before the apex of the clavus. Inner sector of the corium and 

 the apical nervures, except the base of the. two outer, fuscous; and a smoky 

 cloud covers the amastomosis at the base of the middle apical areole and 

 spreads feebly over the inner area of the membrane. Tergum brownish. 

 Spur unusually large, foliaceous. 



In this species the vertex is a little more strongly produced than in our 

 northern dorsalis, the hind edge of the pronotum is not so deeply excavated, 

 and the front is more widened apically. 



Florida, Described from one female received from Mr. C. W. Johnson 

 of Philadelphia. 



? STENOCRANUS SACCHARIVORUS, (Westw.) 

 Delphax saccharivora, Westw. Mag. uf Nat. Hist., VI, p. 413, 1S33. 

 Hab. Granada, W. I. (Westw.) 

 From Prof. Westwood's description and drawings it seems quite likely 

 that this insect is a Stenocranus. His correspondent reported it very de- 

 structive to sugar cane in the island of Granada. 



GENUS KELISIA, Fieb. 

 Fieb., Ver. der Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XVI, p. 519, 1866. 



Cicad. d'Europe, I, p. 83, 1875; II, pi. 7, 1876. 

 Sahlbg., Cicadaria;, p. 416, 1871, (Subgenus of Stenocranus. ) 

 Mayr, Tabellen, I, p. iS, 1884. 

 Ashmead, Ent. Am. V, p. 27, 1889. 



KELISIA AXIALIS, n. sp. 



Van Duzee, Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci. V, p. 191, 1894. 



Form of K. guttula; Above piceous brown, beneath pale dull testaceous. 

 A wide yellow vitta extends from near the apex of the vertex to the second 

 dorsal segment of the abdomen. Elytra hyaline with an axial brown vitta. 

 Length 4 m. m. 



Vertex tinged with testaceous on the anterior margin; entire face tes- 

 taceous, obscurely marked with darker on the front next the lateral carinae ; 

 antennae yellow, paler toward their tips; eyes rufous; pronotum dark brown 

 from the dorsal vitta to below the lateral margins ; meta-, and mesonotum. 



