| OCR Text |
Show 1895.] HEMIPTEBA-HOMOPTEEA OF THE ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 81 sometimes marked with a few brown specks. Pronotum short, longer than the vertex, transversely rugose and impressed, bluntly rounded in front, the posterior margin short and subtruncate. Scutellum bluntly triangular, hardly acuminate, with a few impressed dots scattered over the surface. Wing-covers almost transparent, a little curved, the veins thick and pale yellow, the general surface a little dusky, with a darker streak behind the pale yellow costa, the veins long and regular. Wings a little smoky, with brown veins. Legs pale dull yellow, with the tarsal joints and nails brown. Sternum and venter dark, often black in the male, with the sutures and margins pale ; genital segments of the female pale yellowish; tergum mostly black, with a band of yellow next the tip, and the edges of the segments pale ; genital valve triangular, subacute at tip, the two following pieces uniting to form a long, subconical segment with a rounded tip, and armed with stiff, brown bristles. Length to tip of wing-covers 3|-3| m m . ; width of pronotum 1| mm. Numerous specimens of this species were collected on the island by Mr. Smith. Both of the foregoing species belong to a little group of forms which abound on the marshes and low meadows of the Southern United States, and which deviate more or less in venation and form of wing-covers from the types of Deltocephalus. They can hardly be referred to Cicadula. AGALLIA USTULATA, sp. nov. Form of Agallia quadripunctata, Prov. Mostly brown above, and black beneath. Vertex short and blunt, pale yellowish, with a large black dot each side, a brown interrupted stripe near the eyes, a line widening anteriorly on the middle, the anterior margin and a- line running inward to the ocellus, also brown; front suboval, convex, with a divided fulvous margin above, the lateral margins and two short stripes near the clypeus also tawny ; the middle line of cheeks, interruptedly, a triangular border at base of tylus, and the rostrum pale testaceous. Pronotum moderately short, with the sides very oblique and the anterior margin bluntly curved, coarsely punctate; the colour yellowish with a brown transversely oval line on the middle, this is divided by a dagger-shaped stripe which has an oblique streak each side of it, each side of the oval ring two oblique lines are protracted towards the outer margin, also brown, the posterior margin is often black. Scutellum black, long and acute, pale towards the tip, each basal angle with an ivory-yellow dot. Sternum and pleural pieces black, the latter margined with pale fulvous. Legs pale testaceous, striped with dark brown, the tarsi banded with piceous. Wing-covers mostly brownish, testaceous on the outer half of corium and entire membrane, the veins dark brown ; clavus margined on both sides with pale testaceous, which is more or less interrupted by tbe brown of the areoles ; middle of corium partly crossed by a brown band which P B O C . Z O O L . Soc-1895, N o . VI. 6 |
