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Under surface of body yellow, abdomen compressed laterally. Legs 

 yellow ; front tarsi and claws slightly ferruginous ; apices of hind 

 tibiae with very small black spines. 



Type — Male. Length, to tip of abdomen, 3.4 mm. ; to apex of teg- 

 mina, 5.2 mm. Width between humeral angles, 1.8 mm. 



Locality: Spring Creek, Georgia. 



Described from one specimen collected by the author July 

 22, 1912. 



4. Ceresa occidentalis sp. nov. (Plate IH, Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10.) 



Near C. brevitylus Van Duzee, but more robust, supra- 

 humerals shorter and blunter, and without the black mark- 

 ings on pectoral sclerites or femora. May be recognized by 

 the low, broad pronotum, the blunt, rounded clypeus, and the 

 very convex metopidium. 



Bright green, becoming yellowish in cabinet specimens. Form ro- 

 bust, metopidium convex, suprahumeral horns short and stout, posterior 

 process slender and decurved, clypeus rounded. Punctate but not 

 pubestent. 



Head yellow-green, roughly sculptured, longitudinal striae near eyes, 

 very finely punctate ; clypeus rounded at apex, continuing lateral mar- 

 gins of lorae, a longitudinal impression near each lateral angle, tip 

 densely pilose with white hairs ; ocelli translucent with orange borders, 

 situated slightly below a line drawn through center of eyes, almost 

 equidistant from each other and from the eyes; eyes brown, extend- 

 ing beyond sides of pronotum but not as far as tips of humeral angles. 



Pronotum green, densely and coarsely punctate, not pubescent; 

 ascending nearly straight above head, convex between suprahumeral 

 horns, feebly arcuate in middle, dorsum somewhat flattened, semi- 

 circular impression not prominent ; median carina percurrent ; humeral 

 horns short and blunt, extending almost directly outward and at tips 

 slightly backward, not at all upward; front of pronotum having long, 

 transverse, smooth, irregularly-shaped areas dorso-mesad of eyes, 

 these areas yellowish and shining; posterior process long, slender, sharp, 

 much decurved, reaching beyond tip of abdomen and more than half 

 way from internal angle to tip of tegmen. 



Tegmina clear hyaline; lightly punctate at base, veins greenish. 

 Under surface of body yellow; last ventral segment of female broad 

 and deeply, roundly notched; sheath of ovipositor greenish. Legs 

 uniform greenish yellow with long white hairs; tarsi and claws some- 

 what ferruginous. 



Type— Female. Length 6.5 mm.; width, 3.6 mm. 



