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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. IV, No. 2 , 
Described from numerous specimens of both sexes collected at 
Columbus, Ohio, in 1903. 
This species resembles viridis Ball, but is larger, with more 
pronounced coloring, especially the black spots of the front. The 
vertex is less elongate and genitalia different. 
While the root iidiabiting habit is unusual in this family there 
are, of course, abundant instances in other homopterous families, 
as Aphidae. Membracidae and Cercopidae. 
NEW SPECIES OF OHIO FULGORIDAE. 
Herbert Osborn. 
PhyLLODIXI’S Koebelei n. .sp. 
BrachyptiTOHS, female. With transverse markings on vertex 
and front, pronotum except anterior border, all of scutellum, a 
broad apical margin of the aborted elytra and the first two joints 
of the tarsus and margin of the pygofer white, with terminal joint 
of the antennae, ba.se of the legs, most of the coxae and a series 
of marks on the abdomen, dirt}- white. Length, 2.7 mm ; width, 
i} 4 . mm. 
The head narrower than pronotum, vertex quadrangular, carinae distinct, 
front with sides parallel; two times longer than wide; median carina distinct 
and continued to apex, and a faint carina intermediate between median and 
lateral. Clypeus longer than width at base, polished black. Pronotum about 
as long as verte.x, anterior border truncate between the eyes, posterior 
border nearly straight or slightly concave. Scutellum wider than long, a 
short divergent lateral carina at base, median carina continued to apex, 
lilvtra reaching to base of the second abdominal segment ; veins well 
marked, becoming indistinct, on posterior margin. Legs dilated about as 
in nervatus. 
Color dull black or fuscous black. Vertex with a soiled occipital white 
margin, a broken polished band just in front of the middle and two quadrate 
spots just behind the apex. P'ront black, with .short quadrangular bars just 
beneath the vertex margin. Three interrupted bars across its disk, two 
spots about the middle of the lateral margin and a band across the apex, 
yellowish white. Clypeus black, labruni brownish or yellowish. Pronotum 
white, the anterior margin blackish, the dusky line extending further along 
the curved carinae. Scutellum entirely ^white. Elytra pitchy black with 
broad apical margin, narrower at apex of clavus. Abdomen fuscous with a 
series of dorsal triangular spots, a lateral suffused spot on second abdominal 
segment, a series of round spots on first to third segments and longitudinal 
stripe, one on third, three on fourth, three on fifth, one broken stripe on 
sixth, and margins of terga yellowish white. Anal style white; legs, yellow- 
ish brown at base ; femora yellowish brown at base ; the anterior and middle 
