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apical iiiargiii uL Lhe Irmil and outer edge of the cheeks whitish. Elytra 

 fuscous with prominent whitish nervures. Disc of the tergal segments 

 sometimes paler and there may be a longitudinal row of pale spots, more 

 t)r less continuous, on either side of the middle of the venter, edge of the 

 plates and^a line on the oviduct pale. Antennae brown, the basal joint 

 black. Eyes edged with pale. Length 2%, m. m. 



New York. Described from six female examples, four taken near 

 Buffalo in September, and two from New York City taken by Mr. E. B. 

 Southwick in June. One of the latter is unusually dark with the pale mark- 

 ings much reduced in extent and the legs black. 



Superficially this insect resembles Phyllodinus nervatus but the head 

 is narrower than the pronotum, the legs are not strongly flattened, the 

 cheeks are narrower toward their apex and the lateral carina; of the prono- 

 tum do not reach the hind margin. 



GENUS DICRANOTROPIS, Ficb. 

 Fieber, Ver. der Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XVI, p. 521, iSOO. 



Cicad. d'Europe, I, p. 91, 1875; II, \)\. 8, 1S76. 

 Sahlberg, Cicadaria;, p. 469, 1871. 

 Mayr, Tabellen, I, p. 21, 1884. 

 Edwi^rds, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., i8S6, p. 92. 

 Ashmead, Ent. An., V, p. 27, 18S9. 



DICRANOTROPIS MAIDIS, (Ashui.) 



Delphax maidis Ashmead, Psyche, V, -p. 323, 1890. 



It is with some misgivings that I refer this species to Dicranotropis. 

 The front is not at all narrowed toward the apex but the sides are sharp and 

 parallel to a point opposite the lower angle of the eyes ; here the median 

 carina is forked, the two branches being well separated and a little diver- 

 gent vi^here they pass over the rounded apex of the head. The general color 

 is fulvous brown becoming darker on the front, pleural pieces and femora. 

 The abdomen is brown with the segments edged with pale and the carina 

 above are paler. The elytra are more than twice the length of the body, 

 whitish hyaline with yellowish nervures, those at the apex margined with 

 smoky, especially toward the inner angle; and on the commissural ner- 

 vurc just before the apex of the clavus is a fuscous line. 



Several specimens of this species were in the box received from the 

 National Museum. They are from Florida and Columbus, Texa.s. Mr. 

 Ashmead's description referred to above is quite accurate and full. 



GENUS PHYLLODINUS, n. gen. 



Form short and stout, square before. Head wider than the pronotum. 

 Vertex quadrangular, a little wider than long, passage to the front strongly 

 rounded. Front broad, base and apex nearly equal, the sides feebly convex ; 

 median carina forked opposite the middle of the eyes. Clypeus tricarinate. 

 Cheeks narrow, broad at apex, the edges almost parallel below the inner 

 angle of the eyes. Ej^es large, transverse, deeply excavated below. Anten- 



