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Notes on the Fulgoridae 
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NOTES ON THE FULGORIDAE WITH SOME NEW 
SPECIES. 
By E. D. Ball, 
University, Tucson, Arizona. 
The large and showy representatives of the sub family 
Fulgorinx are largely tropical, only a few of the smaller 
and more somber forms appearing along the southern 
boundary of the United States. Owing to the fragmentary 
character of our knowledge of the tropical forms it has 
been difficult to correctly place even the few we have. In a 
recent survey the following additions and corrections ap- 
peared to be warranted. 
Calyptoproctus marmoratus Spin. 1839 {=Crepusia 
glauca Mete. 1923). Spinola and Stal describe Calyptro- 
proctus as having the fifth dorsal segment of the female ab- 
domen as long as the three preceding segments and tri- 
carinate. Metcalf, in his key, gives ninth abdominal 
segment elongate quinquecarinate for Calyptroproctus Spin, 
and ninth abdominal segment not elongate, not quinque- 
carinate for Crepusia Stal. (italics mine). He must have 
misinterpreted the description and overlooked the fact that 
this character is only present in the females and examined 
only males of his Crepusia glauca, of which he reported 12 
males and only one female. The females of this Arizona 
species have the elongate tricarinate segment and answer in 
every way to the description of marmoratus and to Dozier's 
figure of the Mississippi example. 
This species is now definitely known from Mississippi, 
Brownsville, Texas, and from a number of places in the 
southern half of Arizona. 
Crepusia is apparently one of the many genera proposed 
by Stal in his Hemiptera Africana keys that were never 
described or to which no species was referred. The char- 
acters given in his “Key to the American Fulgorid Genera" 
