340 THE ASIATIC FUR-SEAL ISLAN1>S. 



(12) Bachia nigra, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm. Eobust, wholly black, except tips of anterior femora, 

 thei* tibiae and tarsi, middle tibiae, and more or less of hind tibiae. Head large quad- 

 rate, very sparsely, minutely punctate. Antennfe 18-jointed, flagellar joints 1-3 

 clavate, truncate at tips, the fourth oblong, the following to last quadrate not or 

 scarcely longer than wide. Thorax above flattened, the scutellum flat, with a furrow 

 across the base, the bottom of which is delicately crenated; metathorax long, rugulose, 

 and completely areolated. Wings dusky hyaline, the stigma and veins dark brown, 

 the areolet large, the first transverse cubitus fully as long or a little longer than the 

 second abscissa of radius; transverse median nervure in hiud wings broken far below 

 the middle. Abdomen long ovate, depressed, as long as the head and thorax united 

 or a little longer, the petiole being rather short and broad, subopaque, rest of abdomen 

 smooth, shining; ovipositor short, but distinctly projecting beyond the tip of abdomen. 



Type.—^o. 4044, U. S. N. M. 



Bering Island, July, 1897 (Mr. Barrett-Hamilton). 



Order RHYNCHOTA. 



(By William H. Ashmead.) 

 Suborder I. HOMOPTERA. 



Family FULGOEID^. 



(1) Delphax stejnegeri, new species. 



BracJiypterous form. Female. — Length, 2.5 mm. Pale yellowish, probably greenish 

 yellow in life, the abdomen at suture of segments and beneath more or less white; 

 ventral segments toward base and sides of labrum brownish; eyes brown-black. 

 Face tricarinate, the median carina split on vertex and forming a triangular inclosure 

 for the front ocellus, the lateral extend along the sides of the eyes backwards to the 

 occiput, but connected by an oblique carina with the hind angles of the triangular 

 inclosing. Antennae with the second joint about twice as long as the first, dilated 

 and with about twelve cushion-like sensoria arranged in three rows; the third joint, 

 which is very minute and black, ends in a long black bristle. Pronotum and meso- 

 notum with three carinae, the hind margin of the former obtusely triangularly emar- 

 ginate, of the latter triangularly produced. Tegmina not quite extending to tip of 

 abdomen, pale immaculate, but with minute delicate punctures along the nervures. 

 Abdomen large, oval, the apical margins of the segments whitish ; terminal ventral 



