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Fowler places it as a synonym of hifascia, along with 
angusta. The latter was described from Georgia and is an 
undoubted synonym of hicincta, and if Fowler is correct in 
uniting the three forms, as it seems, then all four species fall 
as synonyms of Mcincta. 
SUBFAMILY APHROPHORINJE Stal. 
In this subfamily the species are smaller, more elongate, 
and, as a rule, rather somber colored. The group is well 
represented in our territory in both genera and species. Two 
of the species are European and probably introduced, while 
many of them are widely distributed, and several extend 
beyond our borders to the southward. 
SYNOPSIS OP THE GENERA. 
A. Apex of clavus acute, corium without a terminal membrane. 
B. Anterior margin of the pronotum angulate, ocelli nearer each 
other than eyes; rostrum long; exceeding the hind coxae, with 
three visible segments, the terminal one much the longest. 
Aphroyliora Germ. 
BB. Anterior margin of pronotum rounded, ocelli nearly equally dis- 
tant from eyes and each other; rostrum short, not exceeding 
middle coxae; composed of two equal visible segments. 
C. Anterior margin of vertex between front and eyes sharp; 
whole upper surface densely pubescent, almost hiding 
sculpturing and venation; submarginal vein of wing 
interrupted between second and third sectors. 
Lepyronia A. & S. 
CC. Anterior margin of vertex between front and eyes sulcate. 
D. Elytra irregularly reticuled apically. Philaronia n. g. 
DD. Elytra with about five apical cells. Pliilcenus Stal. 
A A. Apex of clavus broadly rounded, corium with a broad terminal 
membrane; submarginal vein of wing interrupted at apex. (Small 
globose forms.) ^Clastoptera Germ. 
GENUS APHROPHORA Germ. 
Vertex obtuse or rectangulate, the apex rounding, anterior margin 
between the eyes and tylus sharp, ocelli placed close to the posterior 
margin, nearly twice farther from the eyes than from each other; head 
with the eyes scarcely as wide as the posterior angles of the pronotum, the 
anterior and posterior margins nearly parallel, the latter with a median 
triangular notch between the ocelli, into which fits a slight projection of 
the pronotum; front convex, infiated, transversely wrinkled except on the 
median line; rostrum long, with three visible segments, the last one much 
the longest, extending beyond the hind coxae; pronotum large, about one- 
half longer thanjthe vertex, anterior margin distinctly angulate, medially 
produced into the notched vertex; a distinct median carina extending 
*Por a!synopsis of the Clastoptera see la. Acad. Sci, Proc. Vol. Ill, p. 182. 
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