200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



In volumes xxi and xxii of the " Canadian Entomologist," will 

 be found an annotated catalogue of the Arctiidae, in which the 

 genera are described in some detail and the venation of the lead- 

 ing types is figured, and to. this I would refer the student for 

 further information concerning this family. 



STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEMBRACID/E, II. 



By F. W. Coding, M.D., Ph.D. 



PUBLIUA Stal. 

 Pablilia bicinctara n. sp. — Similar to modestus Uhler; more depressed 

 and slender, with two diagonal white bands. Head broadly oval, un- 

 equal, blackish brown, with three smooth, slightly elevated, light spots, 

 arranged in a triangle; eyes black; prothorax light green, with two whitish 

 bands, the first originating near middle of inferior border passes diago- 

 nally forward and upward, crossing the median carina in the sulcus, the 

 second starting about midway between the first and the apex parallel to 

 it; both are narrowly bordered with dark brown, and several longitudinal 

 lines of the same color mark the surface posterior to the first band; apex 

 more attenuated than in its congeners; base of prothorax with a short, 

 impressed, black Hue above each eye; tegmina clear, veins white; below 

 piceous, upper surface of femora black. Legs otherwise light brown. 

 , Abdomen dark brown. Length 5 mm. 



Described from two males and two females. Collected by Prof 

 Gillette in June and August, on Glycyrrhiza lepidota. 



Hab. — Fort Collins, Colorado. 



One example had the bands obsolete, and two had the dorsum 

 largely ferruginous (types in coll. F. W. G.). 



STICTOCEPHALA Stal. 



Stictocephala gillettei Godg. ^.— Diff"ers from 9 as follows: impressed 

 lateral line extends from base of tegmina to apex of thorax; lateral 

 carinas meet at about the middle, and apex is less cur\-ed. Head grass- 

 green, surface unequal; prothorax clouded with yellow; tegmina trans- 

 parent with a tinge of green, and densely punctured; chest very pale 

 green; femora yellow, covered with hairs; tibiae marked with brown, tarsi 

 light brown. 



Collected by Prof Gillette at Trinidad, Col., May 14, 1892. 



HEURIA Stal. 

 Heliria scalaris Fm. (J*. — Castaneous, speckled with yellow. Head 

 yellow, mottled with castaneous, very broad between eyes, which are 

 black, ocelli nearer each other than the eyes; prothorax castaneous, mot- 

 tled with yellow, anteriorly with the yellow predominating, densely punc- 



