HEMIPTERA— CICADBLLIDAE (JASSIDAE). 



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margin of cheek ; cheek margin faintly sinuate ; pronotum nearly four times 

 as long as vertex, lateral margins short, hind border truncate ; elytra with costa 

 convex. Female, last ventral segment 

 as long as preceding, slightly indented 

 to form broad median lobe, the indenta- 

 tions accentuated by black projection. 

 Male valve large, triangular ; plates 

 short, narrowed to broadly rounded tips, 

 scantily setose. 



Pale gray marking. Elytra sub- 

 hyaline ; veins concolorous. Beneath 

 pale except the black marking on hind 

 border of female last ventral segment. 



Length : female, 3 mm. ; male, 3 mm. 



Tutuila, Leone Kd., 2-19-1924, 

 Bryan ; Pago Pago, 9-4-1923, Swezey Text-fig. li.—Nesosteles tutuilana, n. sp. : 

 and Wilder; and Savaii, Safune, v-11- 'io^sal view; b, face; c, female, and 



, . T <• . r ^ d, male genitalia. 



1924, Lower forest, 1,000-2,000 ft., Bryan. ^ 



This species is smaller than Jiebe, more yellowish in tint, and lacks the 

 longitudinal stripes usually evident in that species, and the genitaha are 

 distinct. 



Genus Homa Distant. 



Fauna Brit. India, Rhynchoia, IV, p. 400, 1908. 

 Type H. insignis, Dist. Distribution Ceylon. 



" Vertex subquadrate, longer than breadth between eyes at base, rounded 

 but very slightly produced in front of eyes, which are almost as long as the 

 vertex and do not project over the anterior angles of the pronotum ; face long, 

 broad, narrowing to clypeus which is short and broad ; pronotum shorter than 

 vertex, transverse, a little rounded in front, the lateral margins nearly straight ; 

 scutellum broad, subtriangular ; legs slender, posterior tibiae strongly spinulose 

 and slightly curved ; tegmina long, much longer than abdomen, apical cells 

 three, large, and subequal in length." (Distant.) 



