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Described from a single female labeled “Cal.,’' received 
from Professor Bruner. Other examples have been examined, 
one of which bore Uhler’s MSS. name as above. This species 
is similar in structure and color to Jf-notata^ but readily 
separated by its shorter vertex, larger size and more uniform 
coloring. 
APHROPHORA PARALLELA Say. 
Cercopis parallela Say. Narr. Long’s Expid. II, 304, 1824. 
Ptyelus crihratus Walk. Homop. B. M. 712, 20 (fide Pitch). 
Dusky reddish-brown, with two narrow, oblique, light 
bands on the elytra; body broad and deep, vertex long and the 
front much inflated; length 9-lOmm., width 4-4. 25mm. 
Vertex, flat or slightly transversely depressed behind the tylus, fully 
one-half longer on middle than at eye, anterior margin thick, nearly 
straight to the tylus, tylus produced and rounded in front, its length 
equaling two-thirds of its width; front strongly inflated and produced, 
extending slightly beyond the vertex, its greatest inflation being nearly 
one-half greater than the long diameter of the eye; pronotum depressed on 
the anterior half, suddenly elevated and rounded on the posterior portion, 
the lateral margins long and sharply carinate, exceeding in length the dis- 
tance between the ocelli; elytra broad and convex, narrowing behind; 
costal area very broad, but not reaching the center of the corium. 
Color: Tawny, punctured with dark-brown; vertex, reddish-brown, 
finely punctured, the anterior margin shining black, interrupted on margin 
of tylus, median carina broadly white behind tylus; pronotum light-gray, 
heavily punctured with light tawny-brown; elytra grayish, heavily over- 
cast with tawny, an interrupted light band running from the apex of 
scutellum to the center of costa and another starting in a spot on the inner 
margin at the apex of the clavus and running forward to meet the other on 
the costa; these bands are often reduced to white bars on the nervures, and 
are usually margined with darker. 
Genitalia: Female pygofers, long and narrow, exceeded a full milli- 
meter by the ovipositor; ultimate ventral segment of male short, its length 
about equaling its basal breadth, narrowing apically, the margins curving 
up and the lateral angles produced in the forms of style like appendages as 
long as the plates; plates nearly square, the posterior angles rounded. 
Habitat: Specimens are at hand from Ontario, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, West 
Virginia, Michigan, and it has been reported from Nova 
Scotia, Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. 
The last two references probably refer to some other species, 
leaving it with a known distribution from Canada south to 
New Jersey, and west to Michigan and Illinois. 
