Psyllitlai/ro7?? the New World. 



697 



segments IV., V., and VI. Vertex flavoiis, proiiotnni darker, 

 dorsuluni and mesonotum flavoiis, remainder oL' hody dark 

 shining brown. Tegnien with a narrow dark brown or 

 smoky stripe margining' the radius a!ul cubitns transversely 

 across the whole wing, and another dark streak on clavus. 

 Legs flavous. 



Head strongly birostrate, somewliat concave between post- 

 ocelli, which are situated on a ridge two-thirds the distance 

 from median suture ; margin behind eyes oblique ; eyes not 

 prominent ; no frontal ocellus. Antenna? quite as long as 

 the body, hairy. Dorsulum arched in front, running to 

 margin in a bifid point; mesonotum broad, slightly concave 



Fi-. 1. 



Srjnoza pulchra, sp. n. 



A, head ; B, S genitalia, lateral view ; C, cJ genitalia, posterior view ; 

 D, tegmen. 



in middle ; pseiidonotum with two largo, conspicuous, broad- 

 based protuberances, sliced obliquely at apex. Tegmen 

 slightly more than twice as long as broad. Genitalia of J" 

 with anal valve strongly developed, forming a hood inside 

 which the claspers lie hid ; an accessory pair of slender, 

 sharp-pointed forceps lying interior to the principal pair. 



Total length 3*6 mm. ; length of tegmen 3'8 mm. 



^IexicO: Chilpaiieingo, Guerrero, 4600 feet (//. //. 

 Smith). 



The genus Synoza was founded by Enderlein (Zool. Jahrb. 

 xli. 1918, p. 479) for the Peruvian species cortiut'icentviSj 

 with which the IMexican species seems to be congeneric. 



