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the apical margin oblique and nearly rectilinear either side, not regularly 

 rounded at the outer angles. Valve of the male short, broadly rounded; 

 plates long and bluntly triangular, their flaccid tips nearly attaining the 

 apex of the pygofers, armed with stout marginal bristles. 



Color fulvous brown, a little lighter on the vertex, anterior margin of 

 the pronotum, scutellum and venter; step-shaped pale marks on the base of 

 the vertex sometimes rather obscure but with the brown shade bounding it 

 anteriorly quite distinguishable, the median brown line distinct; anterior 

 margin with a fuscous vitta usually broken into four spots. Front becom- 

 ing fuscous at base with a few abbreviated arcs either side and bounded at 

 base by a black line and a blackish cloud covers the base of the cheeks; 

 sutures scarcely darker. Anterior submargin of the pronotum with a few 

 darker marks among which is a blackish dot behind each eye; basal angles 

 of the scutellum obscurely fulvous. Elytral nervures fuscous, the areoles 

 with from one to three whitish spots in each, more or less distinctly outlined 

 in brown, those in the inner discal areole connected by a brown cloud; com- 

 missural nervure pale, the surface either side ornamented with three nearly 

 round conspicuous white spots outlined in brown and separated by the 

 curved brown claval nervures, the basal enclosed in a larger oval blackish 

 spot; the outer claval areole with a long blackish streak intercepted by the 

 posterior of these white commissural spots. 



Described from one male and three female examples taken 

 at Estero. The markings found in this species are substantially 

 those of consors, scalaris and mexicanus but the insect is larger, 

 the last ventral segment of the female is more distinctly triang- 

 ular, the venation of the elytra is different and the six commis- 

 sural spots are conspicuous and characteristic although a sim- 

 ilar maculation is found in Eutettix cincta and in a few other 

 species not congeneric with this. 



333. Scaphoideus jucundus Uhler. 



I obtained one female of this species at Estero. 



334. Scaphoideus sanctus Say. 



Of this conspicuous species I took a female at Clearwater 

 and a male at Ft. Myers. 



335. Scaphoideus fasciatus Osborn. 



Crescent City and St. Petersburg; three females. I think 

 there can be no question but this species is distinct from sanctus 

 although I would not rely upon the form of the vertex which is 

 variable in each species as they are represented in my collection. 

 Fasciatus is distinctly smaller and paler and the last ventral 

 segment of the female is shorter and less produced at the 

 middle. 



336. Thamnotettix subcuprea Provancher. 



Sanford, Sevenoaks and Ft. Myers. This species seems to 

 be widely distributed. It occurs in western New York, Mr 



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