62 NOTES ON JAMAICAN HEMIPTERA 



Family Jassida? 



Spangbergiella vulnerata Uhler. 



I took about eight examples of this pretty species at Mande- 

 ville, Kingston and Richmond. These have the red dorsal 

 lines quite widely dislocated where they pass from the prono- 

 tum to the vertex. From the descriptions and figures I have 

 seen of this species I gather that usually these lines are nearly 

 continuous and not so closely approximated anteriorly. 



Xestocephalus pulicarius Van Duzee. 



I took at Montego Bay one rather large clearly marked 

 female that certainly belongs to this species. It was swept 

 from the short grass growing along the roadside just east of the 

 village. This individual has a large quadrate dark spot on the 

 costa beyond the middle and a narrower one nearer the base. 

 The form of the last ventral segment differs in no wise from 

 that found in material taken in the United States. 



Xestocephalus brunneus n. sp. 



Female: Color a rich soft brown becoming paler on the head and legs; 

 abdomen piceous with the pygofers paler at base. Vertex short and more 

 rounded than va. pulicarius, with the front immaculate except for a small 

 pale dot above the ocelli. Pronotum short, distinctly transversely striate, a 

 little paler behind the eyes, otherwise immaculate. Scutellum slightly 

 paler on the disk, the transverse incised line dark. Elytra paler beyond the 

 middle, scarcely maculated at base, the discal transverse nervures of the 

 corium and a dot at the tip of each claval nervure obsoletely paler; a quad- 

 rate spot on the middle of the costa, a smaller and darker one beyond this, 

 and the broad apex darker, the sutural margin with two pale spots beyond 

 the clavus and there is another opposite to these on either side of the costal 

 spot. By transmitted light the disk of the corium shows faint indications 

 of some of the paler spots found in pulicarius. Wings smoky hyaline, 

 iridescent. Ultimate ventral segment short, anterior and posterior margins 

 parallel, leaving the apex subangularly concave, the median notch found in 

 the allied species scarcely indicated; pygofers proportionately shorter and 

 broader than in the allied species. Length about 2 mm. 



Described from a female example taken in a small dry 

 gully at Montego Bay, April 7th, and another female taken at 

 Kingston, R. I., and kindly sent me by Prof. John Barlow of 

 the Agricultural College located there. The specimen from 

 Rhode Island is a little larger and darker but seems to differ in 

 no other way from that taken in Jamaica. The four previotisly 

 described species in this genus show but slight variations in the 

 form of the last ventral segment of the female and the present 



