HEMIPTERA— CICADELLID AE ( JASSID AE) . 



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Genus Erythroneura Fitch. 



Erythroneura Fitch, Trans. N.Y. State Cab., p. 62 (1851). 



34. Erythroneura samoana, n. sp. 



Head narrower than pronotum ; vertex obtusely angulate, three-fourths as 

 long as width at base ; front margins nearly parallel to near the apex, narrowing 

 abruptly to clypeus ; cheek margins slightly sinuate ; pronotum a little longer 

 than the vertex, the hind margins slightly concave. 



Female, last ventral segment twice as long as preceding, rounded behind, 

 the strongly curved ovipositor extending distinctly beyond the tip of pygofer, 

 Male, last ventral segment about as long as preceding ; somewhat tubular, 

 valve wanting or hidden ; plates or outer claspers narrow and strongly curved 

 and faintly ciliate. 



Colour ivory white tinged with yellowish and in some specimens distinctly 

 tinged with fulvous or orange on the pronotum ; the elytra hyaline suffused with 

 yellow to nearly the cross- veins, an elongate ivory plaque on the costa ; apex 

 hyaline and wings milky hyaline. Beneath pale, tips of tarsi black. 



Length : female, 3 mm. ; male, 2-5 mm. 



Described from a series of specimens : three female (holotjrpe and para- 

 types), Savaii, Salailua, 23-V-1924, Bryan ; four male (allotype and paratypes), 

 Savaii, Safune, 13-V-1924, Bryan ; and also specimens referred to this species 

 from Tutuila, Fagasa, 9-9-1923, Swezey and Wilder. 



