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Show 74 PBOF. P. B. UHLER-ENUMERATION OF THE [Jan. 15, GYPONA ALBOSIGNATA, sp. nov. Dark straw-yellow, remotely marked with small spots, streaks, and flecks of brown ; form of G. irrorella, Spangb. Vertex short, bluntly rounded ; ocelli placed a little before the middle and nearer the eyes than to one another ; the front margin reflexed, with the submargin depressed, the surface minutely and obsoletely wrinkled ; the occiput indented each side on a line with the ocelli; front longitudinally depressed. Eyes brown. Rostrum testaceous, reaching behind the anterior coxa?. Pronotum more than twice as long as the vertex, transversely wrinkled, with an arc of flecks and short streaks behind the anterior margin, a cloudy stripe each side of middle, and a darker oblique spot near each posterior angle brown. Wing-covers pale testaceous, with orange veins, a tinge on the base of the costa, a brown ragged spot beyond its middle, a series of small flecks on the first ulnar areole, several larger ones next the apex ; the transverse veins, a bent line on the inferior base of the membrane, and a spot at base and near the apex of clavus, besides its posterior edge, also brown, the apex of the principal areole and the tip of the clavus milk-white. Wings smoky, with dark brown veins. Scutellum with a brown triangular spot in each basal angle and some irregular streaks on the middle (the spots and marks partly or entirely absent, or coalescing, in some specimens). Body beneath and the legs pale testaceous, more or less powdered with white, the bases of tibial spines marked with a brown dot; apex of tibise and sometimes the ends of tarsal joints, and nails, brown. Tergum more or less brown, occasionally black on the three or four posterior segments. Length to end of abdomen, S 6, § 7k m m . ; to tip of wing-covers 7|-8| m m . Width of pronotum 2-2| m m . Three specimens were taken on the island. Two of these are females and one is a male. The male is paler and much less marked with brown than the others. This species inhabits the coastal plain of the United States and is found as far north as Cape Ann, Massachusetts. It is likewise variable in the United States. GYPONA ANGUSTATA, sp. nov. Narrower than usual, pale apple-green when fresh, pale yellow when dried. The vertex narrowly, subacutely rounded at tip, and moderately depressed, about two-thirds the length of the pronotum ; the ocelli rufous, placed before the middle and a little farther apart than distant from the eyes; surface obsoletely wrinkled. Pronotum transversely wrinkled, hexagonal, the anterior margin bluntly semicircular and carried between the eyes. Underside and legs whiter than the upper surface, with the nails and apex of tarsi brownish. Wing-covers narrowing towards the tip, the basal portion obsoletely punctate near the veins the basal areole sometimes with a minute black dot at base-veins mostly straight and simple, margin of costal areole whitish • |
