356 



D. griplius. New sp. 



Pale green, moderately long and narrow, bispid above, pubescent 

 beneath. Head with a few coarse wrinkles on the fore part ol the vertex, 

 the anterior edge acute, interruptedly margined with fuscous; fro;it 

 longer than the epistoma, the lateral margins curving to conform to its 

 outline, submargin each side with a longitudinal curved series of minute 

 black points; epistoma transversely convex, narrow, the rostrum reach- 

 ing to the posterior coxfe. Seta of antennai black. Pronotum short, 

 angularly lunate ; anterior margin subtruncate, lateral margins greatly 

 recurved, the sides deeply excavated to admit the eyes, middle line dis- 

 tinctly elevated ; mesonotum very minutely scabrous, feebly carinate 

 along the middle, the lateral carinee almost straight. Spines of the tibiae 

 and tarsi tipped with fticeous. Hem elytra long and narrow, strongly 

 deflected, the nervures very thick and forming about six series of rounded 

 areoles, the clavus with two series of areoles, but with a single series of 

 three areoles at base. Abdomen fringed with short, stiff pubescence. 



Length to tip of hemelytra, 4J millimeters. Width of pronotum, li 

 millimeters. 



Inhabits Texas ; collected near Waco by G. W. Belfrage. 



This interesting little species presents a new faciesin the group as rep- 

 resented in North America. The obliteration of the longitudinal nerv- 

 ures of the hemelytra and the rounded form of the areoles signalize it at 

 once. 



Ne^thus, Stai. 



N. vitripennis. 



Bjisteropterum vitripenne, Stal. Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Akacl. Forhandl. 1854, 247 ; 

 and Engenies Eesa^ 279, No. 171. 



Inhabits Califoinia near San Francisco, and Arizona. 



Aphelonema. New gen. 



Elongated, the sides almost parallel ; head large, including the eyes 

 a little wider than the base of the closed hemelytra; vertex very short, 

 sublunate, with the anterior margin strongly carinate ; front rounded, 

 prominent, the central plate almost circular, flattened, and very much 

 raised above the surrounding area ; exterior margin strongly carinate, 

 curved conformably with the margin of the central plate, the upper 

 margin subtruncate, carinate, the middle line carinate, and continued to 

 the tip of epistoma ; epistoma prominently ridged, the inferior cheeks 

 wide, impressed on the inner angle, the superior cheeks wide, scooped 

 out. Pronotum longer than the vertex, lunate, bluntly curved on the 

 anterior margin, the posterior margin deeply siuuated. Tibiae slender, 

 sulcate on the outer face almost to the tip. Hemelytra long and nar- 

 row, a little obliquely rounded at tip, the costal and sutural margins 

 almost straight and parallel, the longitudinal nervures very strq,ight, 

 connected near the tip by a few cross-nervules, which form a transverse 

 series of three large and one or two small, manj^-sided areoles, next 

 after which is an apical series of four or five triangular areas ; the costal 

 areolo with three slender cross-nervules near the tip. 



A. simplex. New sp. 



Pale ochreous ; hemelytra faintly yellowish translucent. Vertex 

 Innately hollowed out, the base slenderly carinate, the anterior margin 

 bounded by a stout carina ; front bright ochreous, densely minutely 

 scabrous, the space between the central plate and the outer carinate 



