HBMIPTERA— CICADBLLIDAE (JASSIDAE). 



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stripes on clavus and the claval suture, light yellowish brown. Beneath pale, 

 disc of venter infuscate. 



Length, female, 5-5 mm. 



Described from one female (holotype) Malololelei, Upolu, 2,000 ft., 

 1 4-30, vii. 1924, Buxton and Hopkins. 



This species has the pronotum more decidedly produced than in any species 

 known to me and in this respect resembles Tartessus, but the ocelli are distinctly 

 below the margin of vertex and in size and general facies the species falls in the 

 Agallia group and may be placed in AgalUopsis as now constituted. The 

 pronotum is even more produced anteriorly than in the genotype species novella, 

 which is a common North American species. In general facies the species 

 resembles Agallia atrovenosa Melichar, from Ceylon, but in details of picture, as 

 well as the pronounced difference in form of head and pronotum, it is quite 

 distinct. 



Genus Bythoscopus Germar. 



BytJioscopus Germar in Silberman, Rev. Ent., I, p. 180 (1833). 



Batracomorphus Lewis, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, I, p. 51 (1834). 



Macropsis Amyot & Serville, {nec Lewis), Hist. Nat. Ins. Hhnip., p. 585 (1843). 



Strangania Stal, Rio Jan. Hem., II, p. 49 (1858). 



Pachyopsis Uhler, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Survey, III, p. 466 (1877). 



Gargaropsis Fowler, Biol. Cent. Am. Rhynchota Homop., II, p. 167 (1896). Genotype B. lanio (L.) 



Body depressed, face retracted, vertex short, ocelli on face below margin. 

 This genus is world-wide in distribution, and many of the species in widely 

 scattered localities have many features in common so that separation of species 

 is difficult. The species of the Pacific island groups are no exception, and it is 

 quite possible that some of those given names here may be considered identical 

 with species already described from other regions. However, if we bear in mind 

 the isolation they must represent it is less likely to result in confusion to give 

 them distinctive names than to refer them to species known in other regions. 



2. Bythoscopus chlorophana (Melichar). 



Pachyopsis chloropliana Melichar, Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 153 (1903). 



Bythoscopus chlorophana Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynchota, IV, Pt. 1, p. 191 (1907). 



This is a pale green species sometimes faintly suffused with reddish on the 

 head and pronotum but without markings, except a small blackish spot at tip 

 of clavus. 



Length : female, 5 mm. ; male, 4-5 mm. 



