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longitudinal carinas found in that species. These rugae give the surface a 

 strongly corrugated or areolated appearance. Surface between the rugae 

 deeply punctured. Metopidium more vertical than in concava, the percur- 

 rent carina more elevated and the dorsal sinus somewhat deeper. Apical 

 margin of the head distinctly sinuated next the eye, then very obtusely 

 arcuated about the apex. Color blackish or fuscous speckled or blotched 

 more or less with testaceous on the head and front of the pronotum as far as 

 the dorsal sinus; and with a triangular whitish testaceous spot on the apical 

 fourth of the lateral margin which may be prolonged somewhat along the 

 margin anteriorly and indistinctly across the disk as an incomplete subapical 

 vitta. Venter, tibiae and tarsi pallid, the disk of the ventral segments more 

 or less black. Length 4 mm. 



Described from two female examples received from Prof. 

 J. B. Smith, one of them labeled "Jamesburgh, N. J., June 

 24th", and the other "Kansas City, Mo., May 25th", and one 

 male taken at Hot Springs, N. C, by Mrs. Slosson. I have 

 more recently seen a good series taken at Hendersonville, 

 N. C. , by Prof. Franklin Sherman, Jr. 



Buckton in his Monograph of the Membracidae has des- 

 cribed an insect as Publilia grisea n. sp. that would seem to have 

 reticulated carinas on the pronotum but both the description 

 and figure are absolutely unrecognizable. With common con- 

 sent this work of Buckton's should be entirely ignored by en- 

 tomologists in all matters of nomenclature. The locating of his 

 species without access to his types is a matter of pure guess- 

 work. His work is in no sense scientific and I can see no 

 reason why his species should be given standing in entomol- 

 ogical literature. 



3, Publilia modesta Uhler. PI. 1, fig. 6. 



This species is very distinct from both the preceding. It 

 is proportionately longer and less elevated and the dorsal notch 

 is scarcely indicated. The color is generally griseous or green- 

 ish-testaceous. In the darker examples there may be two 

 oblique pale bands on the sides or there may be a broad dorsal 

 brown band interrupted toward the apex by a transverse pale 

 vitta. Goding's Publilia bicinctura, as pointed out by Gillette 

 and Baker, is certainly only the grey color variety mentioned 

 above showing two oblique pale lines In this species the 

 dorsal carina is not more elevated anteriorly in the female but 

 the metopidium is higher and more vertical in that sex. I 

 found this species abundant throughout Colorado and Utah 

 where it seems to replace our eastern concava. 



