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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



Vertex subangulate. L,ength, five-sixths of width, one-half 

 longer at middle than next the eye; front narrow, margins 

 nearly straight ; clypeus widening at tip; lorae large, broad, 

 scarcely reaching border of cheeks; pronotum a little more 

 than twice as wide as long, the hind border scarcely emar- 

 ginate ; elytra broad, the cross vein between outer claval vein 

 and suture obsolete, first anteapical triangular, pointed behind, 

 scarcely stylate. 



Color : Dark gray for head and prothorax, light gray for 

 elytra; vertex with a conspicuous transverse fuscous band 

 projected forward at middle, and a heavy fuscous line parallel 

 to the anterior margin each side ; face whitish with fuscous 

 borders to the sutures ; pronotum grayish brown with fuscous 

 spots ; elytra whitish, with fuscous veins, the nodal and 

 apical broadly bordered, the claval veins at the strong apical 

 curve crossed by a dark dash, the apex fulvous with a broad 

 marginal fuscous border; legs whitish, with anterior femora 

 blackish, and the usual points on posterior tibiae and tarsi ; 

 abdomen whitish, with blackish washes on segments. 



Genitalia: Last ventral segment of 9 broad, with a strong 

 carina on median line produced into a sharp spur beyond the 

 hind margin.. 



This large and quite distinct species apparently belongs to 

 the eastern part of the country, as of the three specimens, 

 all of which are females; one is from Hanover, N. H. (C. M. 

 Weed) ; one from New Jersey (C. W. Johnson) ; and one 

 from Hamburg, N. Y. (E. P. VanDuzee), the last collected 

 July 3 i, 1898. 



SCAPHOIDKUS INTRICATUS Uhler. 



Scaphoideus intricatus Uhler. Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., I, p. 

 34, 1889. 



VanDuzee Catalogue, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXI, p. 300, 1894. 

 Osborn and Ball. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., IV, 232 (Record). 

 Vertex scarcely as wide as long, with very faint transverse 

 band and marginal line. Beneath white, except a series of 

 dots on lateral margin of abdomen and a central patch on 

 last ventral segment of female. 



9, last ventral segment truncate; pygofers rather long 

 with small dusky patches near the tip each side, a few small 



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