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Described from a single female labeled "Cal.," received 

 from Professor Bruner. Other examples have been examined, 

 one of which bore Uhler's MSS. name as above. This species 

 is similar in structure and color to" Jf-notata, but readily 

 separated by its shorter vertex, larger size and more uniform 

 coloring. 



^ APHROPHORA PARALLELA Say. 



O Cercopis paralkla Say. Narr. Long's Expid. II, 304, 1824. 

 O Ptyelus cribratus Walk. Homop. B. M. 712, 20 (fide Fitch). 



Dusky reddish-brown, with two narrow, oblique, light 

 bands on the elytra; body broad and deep, vertex long and the 

 front much inflated; length 9-lOmm., width 4-4.25mm. 



Vertex, flat or slightly transvei'sely depressed behind the tylus, fully 

 one-half longer on middle than at eye, anterior margin thick, nearly 

 straight to the tylus, tylus produced and rounded in front, its length 

 equaling two-thirds of its width; front strongly inflated and pi'oduced, 

 extending slightly beyond the vertex, its greatest inflation being nearly 

 one-half greater than the long diameter of the eye: pronotum depressed on 

 the anterior half, suddenly elevated and rounded on the posterior portion, 

 the lateral margins long and sharply earinate, exceeding in length the dis- 

 tance between the ocelli; elytra broad and convex, narrowing behind; 

 costal area very broad, but not reaching the center of the corium. 



Color: Tawny, punctured with dark-brown; vertex, reddish-brown, 

 finely punctured, the anterior margin shining black, interrupted on margin 

 of tylus, median carina broadly white behind tylus; pronotum light-gray, 

 heavily punctured with light tawny-brown; elytra grayish, heavily over- 

 cast with tawny, an interrupted light band running from the apex of 

 scutellum to the center of costa and another starting in a spot on the inner 

 margin at the apex of the clavus and running forward to meet the other on 

 the costa: these bands are often reduced to white bars on the nervures, and 

 are usually margined with darker. 



Genitalia: Female pygofers, long and narrow, exceeded a full milli- 

 meter by the ovipositor; ultimate ventral segment of male short, its length 

 about equaling its basal breadth, narrowing apically, the margins curving 

 up and the lateral angles produced in the forms of style like appendages as 

 long as the plates; plates nearly square, the posterior angles rounded. 



Habitat: Specimens are at hand from Ontario, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, West 

 Virginia, Michigan, and it has been reported from Nova 

 Scotia, Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. 

 The last two references probably refer to some other species, 

 leaving it with a known distribution from Canada south to 

 New Jersey, and west to Michigan and Illinois. 



