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band near the apex of the cheeks. In the macropterous form the 

 elytra are short and truncated at apex. 



New Haven, 14 Aug., 1906 (W. E. B.), 21 Aug., 1906 (B. H. W.), 20 

 Aug., 1910 (A. B. C), 20 Aug., 1910 (B. H. W.). 

 P. atra var. albovenosa Melichar. 



Abh. K. K. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, iii, pt. 4, 179, 1906. 



This variety differs from the type form only in having the elytral 

 nervures pale, rufous, yellowish or almost white. Apparently it 

 always occurs with the typical form. 



New Haven, 21 Aug., 1906, 21 Aug., 1909, 28 Aug., 1910 (B. H. W.). 

 P. pallescens Germar. 



Zeit. f. Ent., i, 192, 1839. 



This species has the same form as the preceding but has a brown 

 color and dotted nervures. Like that species it is distributed from 

 Massachusetts to Florida and should be found in Connecticut. 



Subfamily Achilinae. 



This subfamily as represented in our fauna may be distinguished 

 from the Cixiinae, which they most resemble, by having the claval 

 nervure continued to its apex. They are elongated or oblong 

 depressed insects with their folded elytra overlapping at apex and 

 head often produced. From the Isshiae they differ in having the 

 head much narrower than the thorax with the pronotum emargi- 

 nate behind, sometimes deeply so. 



Key to Genera. 



Lateral compartments of the pronotum (behind the eyes) at least as 



long as the eye, sometimes much longer Epiptera, p. 29 



Lateral compartments of the pronotum, when distinguished, shorter 



than the eye, generally much shorter Catonia, p. 30 



Epiptera Metcalf.* 

 (Elidiptera of Authors, not Spinola.) 

 (Helicoptera Amyot and Serville.) 



Key to Species. 



1. Head rostrate produced, the vertex surpassing the front line of 



the eyes by at least twice the length of the eye colorata 



Head produced little if any more than the length of the eye 2 



2. Black with a white band across the face and pleural pieces ; elytra 



minutely dotted with pale opaca 



More or less variegated with brown or pale 3 



3. Vertex produced before the eyes for fully the length of the eye; 



front brown on base, whitish on apical one-half pallida 



Vertex produced before the eye for about the width of the eye; 

 front brown irrorate with pale, scarcely darker at base variegata 



* Since this paper was set in type, Z. P. Metcalf has described the follow- 

 ing new species from Connecticut, in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 

 Society, Vol. 39: Epiptera brittoni, Libumia waldeni, Megamelus distinctus, 

 Criomorphus conspicuus, Her pis incisa and Cixius apicalis (W. E. B.). 



