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S. MATSUMUKA. 
suture each side above, transverse ribs coarse, yellowish, with the 
intervening sutures blackish, punctate, and having the depression at the 
apex, closely punctate with black ; Clypeus with a triangular pale, callosity 
at base, which is followed below by a daggefshaped, also pale, callosity, 
bounded each side by lines of the punctures ; cheeks uneven, punctate ; 
rostrum yellowish reaching behind the posterior coxae, black at tip. 
Pronotum a little longer than wide, obscure orange anteriorly, dark 
brownish behind and on the scutellum, coarsely punctate in wavy lines 
posteriorly, less closely so anteriorly, middleline roughly carinated, 
posterior margin triangularly sinuated, the lateral margin oblique, 
anterior margin acute in the middle ; Scutellum acutely tapering to 
tip, with the lateral margin yellowish. Wingcovers pale grayish, the 
base fuscous, mottled with pale testaceous, covered with fine pubescense, a 
broad, broken, pale diagonalband extends from the inner angle of the 
clavus before the middle of the costa, inner bending back upon the 
clavus, surface rough and punctate, the apical one-third pale, with a 
brown spot at tip. Legs testaceous, with the apex of tibiae and bands 
on joints of tarsi brown. Abdominal segments bordered with whitish 
spots on sides of mesopleura and posterior part of metapleura whitish.” 
Length to tip of wingcovers, 8-8 i/amm. ; width of pronotum 
2 3/4mm. 
Type.-N0.3135 U.S. N.M 
4. Aphrophora major Uhl. (Fig. 8). 
Aphrophora major Uhl. Proc. N. Mus. U.S.A. p. 286, 1896. 
Aphrophora alpina Melich., Wien. ent. Zeit. XIX, p. 58, 1900. 
Dunkelbraun, manchmal bräunlichgrau, matt. Scheitel mehr als 
zweimal so breit als lang, mit feinen silberweisslichen Härchen bedeckt; 
vorn breit stumpfwinkelig vorragend, der deutlich aufgebogene Vorderrand 
fast nicht punktiert. Das Apicalfeld des Scheitels mehr als zweimal breiter 
als lang, seicht grob punktiert, die umgebende Region der Ocellen feiner 
punktiert als die übrigen, die narbenartigen Flecke bei den Hinterrändern 
gelblich. Stirn mässig gewölbt, gelblich, die Punktierung am Mittelkiel 
