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Pronotum banded on tlie anterior edge by a slender black line, and witli 

 five sfcraig'hter and more slender lines, which stop jast short of the lateral 

 margins, these lines feebly impressed, and obsoletely, minutely scabrous j 

 surface not wrinkled, almost smooth, moderately convex, deeply emar- 

 ginated behind, the lateral margin narrowly produced as far as the 

 outer line of the eyes; the humeral margin recurved, and with a small 

 black dot before it. Scutellnm pubescent, yellow, transversely wrinkled, 

 with a slender black line at base, and an interrupted one behind the 

 middle. Hemehtra with short, remote, golden i)ubescence, coarsely 

 punctate at base, more obsoletely so posteriorly ; the inner and poste- 

 rior margins, the suture between the corium and clavus, an oblique 

 short streak on the disk, and a spot on the middle of the costa fuscous j 

 posterior margin of the corium with a sinuous brown band, the mem- 

 brane and posterior one-third of the corium, and a spot at base of costa 

 pale brown ; the bulla very prominent, black; under side yellow ; the 

 mesostethium, disks of the pleural pieces, and middle line of genital 

 segment pitch-black. Legs yellow, the tibise having a band below the 

 knee, another on the middle,, and a third at tip, and the spines of tibice 

 and tarsi, including the nails, dark piceous. 



Length to tip of hemelytra, 4^ millimeters. Width of pronotum, 2 

 millimeters. 



Colorado and Utah ; collected by C. Thomas and B. H. Smith. 



Family FULGORID.E. 



ScoLOPS, Germ. 



1. S. snlclpes. 



Fulgora sulcipes, Say, Journ. Acad. Phila. iv, 335. 



Common in many parts of the United States, as well east as west of 

 the Mississippi Eiver. The specimens collected by these expeditions 

 occurred in Colorado, Utah, Dakota, and Arizona. Specimens have 

 been examined by me which were obtained in Maine, Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Iowa, Illinois,' Pennsylvania, 

 and Minnesota. In Maryland and Virginia, they occur in sedgy and 

 grassy low spots in the corners of meadows, particularly in places near 

 woods, in July, August, and September. 



This species may be known from its allies by the long and very slen- 

 der cephalic prominence, acute at tip, by the first ulnar nervure giving 

 off three forking branches, and by the second ulnar giving off two fork- 

 ing branches, and with numerous cross-nervures producing several 

 series of small areoles adjoining the tip. 



Length from tip of head to end of hemelytra, 8J to 10 millimeters. 

 Length of cephalic horn, 2 to 2J millimeters. 



2. 8. hesperins. iSTew sp. 



Straw-yellow or pale brownish, narrower than S. sulcipes. Cephalic 

 protuberance shorter, broader, not compressed at tip; rostrum reaching 

 upon the second ventral segment, the last joint black at tip ; sutures of 

 the face more or less infuscated ; postocular process white, with a black 

 dot interiorly. Pronotum irrorated with pale brown and white, the 

 sides and lateral pieces irregularly, obsoletely tuberculate; tegular 

 pieces minutely, confluently punctate. Mesonotum slightly gnttate 

 with pale brown, the apex tumid and emarginate just each side of the 

 extreme tip ; metapleura and sternum whitish. Carinate lines of the 

 coxse and legs whitish ; the spaces between usually brownish. Heme- 



