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recognized by the two transverse white bands on the pronotum 

 connected by a slender median line. The white commissural 

 vitta is conspicuous in most specimens and is twice interrupted 

 by the oblique and heavily infuscated claval nervures. There 

 is a large brown cloud on the anteapical areoles more or less 

 extended basally, and a distinct apical black or fuscous cloud 

 beyond which the extreme edge is white. I have taken one 

 example of undoubted obtusus Osb. at Lancaster, N. Y., which 

 Prof. Osborn has kindly compared with his types. He is in- 

 clined to place these Florida examples as a variety of immistus. 



330. Scaphoideus opalinus Osborn. 



Sevenoaks; two examples. This species was described in 

 Prof. Osborn's paper on the Jassidse of New York State. I 

 have taken it at Riverton, N. J., and Gowanda, N. Y. The 

 whitish vertex, middle of the pronotum and scutellum, give it 

 the appearance of having a white dorsal vitta anteriorly. 



331. Scaphoideus consors Uhler. 



Crescent City; three examples. This is a pretty little 

 species sufficiently distinct from the more western scalaris. 

 The vertex is longer, more pointed and more clearly marked 

 than in scalaris and in the present specimens the facial sutures 

 are conspicuously fuscous. 



332. Scaphoideus albonotatus n. sp. 



Closely allied to consors and scalaris but 

 larger and stouter than either and marked 

 with three pairs of nearly round white spots 

 along the commissure of the closed elytra. 

 Length 5^2 mm. 



Vertex about as long as in scalaris with the 

 apex more obtuse in the female, subacute in the 

 male; anterior edge more obtusely rounded than in 

 consors but sharper than in scalaris. Front and 

 clypeus proportionately broader than in scalaris, 

 much broader than in consors. Outer anteapical 

 areole of the corium of equal width throughout, not 

 distinctly narrowed at apex as in the allied species; 



inner areole with two supernumerary transverse veinlets behind the regular 

 veinlet which forms its base. Claval nervures strongly approaching one 

 another and sometimes connected, the outer connected to the claval suture 

 by a transverse veinlet. Last ventral segment of the female short triangular, 



SCAPHOIDEUS 



ALBONOTATUS 



