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April 1898.1 PSYCHE. 197
in male, plainly evident in female; median carina distinct on metazona, obsolete or but faintly visible on prozona; disk a uniform dark brown in two specimens, the prozona blotched with fuscous in the remaining two ; the lateral lobes with a piccous band on their upper two-thirds which extends to metazona, then selling in again on meso-pleurite con- tinues about half the length of the abdomen, gradually fading posteriorly; bordered below on cheek and prozona with pallid, or testa- ceous in female, (ivory white in life, as is also the metii-pleurite). Tegmina 11 niforin dark wood brown, narrowly scpiiratcd dor- sally, a very little shorter than pronotuin, oval in outline, breadth 14 in length with apex subangnlate; broader in female, breadth 14 in length with apex rounded. Hind femora. light testaceous on upper and outer faces, faintly and obliquely bihsciate with fuscous; yellowish on inner and lower faces with the fuscous bars plainer on the former, genicula- tion blackish. Hind tibiae pale red, the spines black, ten in outer series. Extremity of male abdomen entire, moderately recurved ; supra-anal plate triangulsir, a little longer than broad, the sides rather high, the median sillcus narrow, shallow, and terminatingnear the middle of the plate; the furcula consist of a pair of short, flattish triangular projec- tions of the inner corner?, of the divided lateral halves of the last dorsal segment and overlie the basal portion of the median sul- cus; cerci styliform, a little shorter than the supra-anal plate, tapering strongly on basal half, pidually on apical half to the rather blunt apex.
Female, moderately robust, with colors
duller than in the male.
Avcragp mei~sin-ements: Length of body,
male, 15 mm., female, ao mm,; anienriile, male, 7 mm., female, 8 tntn. ; tegmina, male, 4 mm., female, 5 mm.; hind femora, male, 9.5 mm., female, n mm, Three males, one
female, La Salle Island, Michigan, August 17, 1897.
Two or three males of islandicus
were taken from shady places about the
borders of the clearing', in which huroni was found, but the remaining six or
eight secured were found along the
margins of a narrow pathway which
led through the dense woods down the
eastern slope of the island. They
would leap from the pathway into the:
mosses and liverworts bordering its>
sklcs, and there remain quiet while the
intruder passed by. None were found
at a distance of more than ten feet from this pathway, though especial search
was made for them.
SOME NEW BYTHOSCOPINAE WITH NOTES ON OTI-IERS. BY C. F. BAKER, ALA. POLYTECHNIC INST. AUBURN, ALA. . Bythoscopus fagi Fh. darker. The last ventral segment is slightly shorter than preceding and
This is as good a species as any, and
very broadly bilobed. I haveIanum-
occurs sparingly throughout the north-
ber of males and females froin j,the
east. It is small, length about 4 mm., vicinity of Washington, D. C., and the females rufous throughout, paler
have seen others from New4York and
below, the males with the elytra much
Massachusetts.




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198 F's 2C!få£ [April 1898.
Bythoscopus variabilis Fh. var.
coloradensis n. var.
I give this name to a form found in
northern Colorado which cannot be'
separated str~icturally from 'uwiabilis, though the color is quite distinctive.
The head, pronoturn, scutcl, and clavus
basally, arc yellow. Vertex with two
small black spots. The pronotum has
the depressed area behind each eye
rufous. The sides of front, stcrnum,
legs, and abdomen, are rufous. The
elytra are rufescent with two hyaline
spots on disc.
Described from numerous specimens
taken in the foothills west of Fort
Collins, June 15th to August 4th and
at Forrester's Ranch on the Upper
Laramie River in August. In both
localities fizini was common with it.
This variety was recorded in the
Prelim. List Hemip. Colo. as fenes-
tratus. I do not know that fenestra-
fus, the type of which I have studied,
has ever been found in Colorado.
The most important work yet to be
done among our Jassoid insects, is the
careful breeding of the various forms in large numbers. This is especially true
among the Bythoscopids and Typhlo-
cybids. In Bythosopus, Pcdiopsis, and
Idiocerus, such work, properly done,
will be fraught with the most important
results.
Bythoscopus truncatus n. sp.
Female. Length 4.5 mm. Color clear
rufous, venter darker laterally.
Legs pale
yellowish, fore femora rufous, middle and hind femora piceous. Elytra subliyaline, narrow costal and apical margins, and two irregularly transverse bands fuscous. Last ventral segment as long as preceding, trun- cate posteriorly. Face finely rugoso-punc- tate. Vertex, and pronotum anteriorly,
coarsely irregularly punctured, the former with a faint median callosity. Pronotum
posterioily rather coanely transversely
rugose.
Described from a single female,
collected by myself at the Michigan
Agricultural College in 1888. At that
time Mr Van Duzee called this snh-
rim, but later settled that name on a
very different form which I have since
received from the northeast in 11111x1-
bers.
Agallia bigeloviae Baker.
The type of this species represents
a small pale form. Farther west it
becomes larger and frequently darker,
when superHciaIly it more closely
resembles sanpzhole~zfa. But the
form of the last ventral segment 01
the female is distinctive. There are
specimens in the Nat'l Muse~iin from
Death Valley and the Panamiut Mts.,
collected by Mr. Koebele, and one
from Los Angeles, collected by Mr.
Coquillett.
Agallia sanguinolenta Prov. var.
inconspicua n. var.
There are in the National Museum
two specimens of a very small form,
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April 1898.1 PSYCHE. 199
black spots on vertex, and with hyaline
elytra, which have the external genitals almost identical with those of sazgwin-
nolenta. They were collected at Los
Angeles by Mr. Coquillett. I have
also specimens from Arizona collected
by Dr. Knnze. It will require the
study of large series from various local- ities to decide whether it be really a
form of sanguinolenta.
Agallia californica n. sp.
Lcngth 3-3.25. Intermediate between uhleri and sa~ifuinolefifa, the former of which it closely resembles in colorat,ion. Acici-ilation of pronotuni finer than in uklerf, and punc- tuation on vertex medially finer, sometimes scarcely distinguishable. Hind margin of last ventral segment in female trisinnate, the median notch of varying size but always very small. The plates of the male arc rectangu- lar, black at tips, and stand in nearly the same plane, the apical margins often nearly in one straight line: outer apical angles obtuse, inner acute and minutely more or less produced. The valve is short and very broadly evenly rounded.
Described fiom several specimens in
the Nat'l Museum, -froin Los Angeles
(Coquillett), one from Nevada Co.,
Cal. (Koebele) , and several from Teha-
chapi, Cal. (Morse). The form of
genitals readily separate this from a
large series of sawgu1'nole-sitvt.s and
ithle~i front Colorado and various parts of the East. It has a shorter-winged
form also found at Los Angeles, and
collected by Mr. Koebele in Placer Co.,
Cal.
Agallia lyrata n. sp.
Male. Length 3.5. Very similar to calf-
fornicus but hu-ger, the color and sculptuiing nearly the same as in that species. Valve very short, shorter than in califor-nic,ts, and broadly rounded. Plates very long, outer margins towards base strongly outwardly
bent., beyond strongly narrowed and running parallel sided to the black rectangulsirly trun- cate tips; taken altogether, distinctly lyrate. This species has been collected by
Mr. Koebele in Nevada Co., Cal.
Prof. Morse found it also at Wawona
and Tehachapi, Cal. Apparently a
very distinct species of the uhle~i
group.
Agallia heydei 11. sp.
Form of A, constricts but larger.
Length,
male 3.75, of female 4-25 mm.
Female: Face a fourteenth longer than
wide. Front narrower than in 4-~zoiatus, strongly constricted below the antennae. Vertex about as long at the middle as at the eyes. Pronotum not quite twice wider than long, length more than four times that of the vertex. Last ventral segment suddenly con- stricted at middle, beyond this evenly bulg- ing, then rapidly narrowing to a shallowly notched apex; EL semicircular depressed area on either side of apical half.
Color nearly as in pzofafns. Brownish
with lighter areas. Antenna1 cavities and spots including the ocelli, black. Vertex with two large black spots midway between median line and eyes. Pi-onolum with two large black spots on posterior half. Elytra with light veins on a brownisi~ field. Ster- num and basal portion of venter blackish. Male: Plates with sides evenly incurved to middle; then enlarged towards the evenly rounded, very obtuse tips.
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200 PSYcKE. [Apd 1898.
lected in the State of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, by Rev. H. Th. Heyde. This
is one of many interesting things which
Mr. Heyde has turned up in Mexico,
and I take pleasure in dedicating it to
å´him It is nearest constricta and 4-
notata, but differs from either in thc
structure of face and genitals.
Agallia mexicana n. sp.
More slender than constricts which it
resembles. Length, female 3.5, male 3.25 mm.
Face about a twentieth longer than wide. Front proportioned as in Aeydei, strongly constricted below the antennae. Vertex as long at middle as at eyes. Pronotal width once and nine tenths the length, the 1engt.h thrcc and a half times that of the vertex. Elytra proportionally riiu'rower than in constrictai Last ventral segment with hind margin slightly concave, its disc entirely lacking the characteristic depressed areas of consiricta.
Color as in the paler form of const~icia. except that the spots on vertex and pronotum arc much larger, and the elytra are clearer ‰âÂ.ra
Male : Valves narrowing to a slender but obtuse tip, the sides at about half their length more or le&s distinctly very obtusely angulated.
wide. Front long and narrow, sides evenly curved. Vertex shorter at middle than at eyes, margin hack ofeyes broad, asin novella. Pronotal width once and three fourths the length, the length about five times that of the vertex. Last ventral segment broadly shallowly notched, the two lobes thus
formed, evenly rounded.
Color pale greenish gray, sternum, legs, and venter pale yellowish. Face rufous,
lighter towards margins; clypeus and lower part of front, antennae cavities, two diago- nal streaks between the ocelli and front, and a spot extending inward from eyes and
including ocellus, deep black. Vertex pale yellowish with two small dots between the median line and the eyes, and a large black spot at inner angle of eye. Pronotum very finely but distinctly shiigreened, with three brown points, one at apex and two on disc. Elytra with dark fuscous clouding in outer claval cell, two anteapical cells and third apical cell.
State of Vera Cruz, Mexico (Rev.
H. Th. Heyde).
This peculiar form is
an interesting addition to the novella
group.
Agallia producta n. sp.
Described from many specimens col-
lected in the State of Vera Cruz, Mex-
ico by Rev. H. Th. Heyde. This
belongs to the 4-notata group, which
includes 4-notaia, constricta and hey-
dei. Of this it is nearest constricts,
but (lifters as described above.
Agallia anomala n. sp.
Form of novella hut smaller.
Length of'
female, 3.5 mm. Face a twelfth longer than adjoining the ocelli inwardly, antennae Resembling anomala. Length of male
and female, 3.5 mm.
Female : Face a twelfth longer then wide. Front bioad, sides evenly curved from
antennae to clypeus. Vertex of nearly the same form as in anomala and novella.
Pronotal width about once and two thirds the length, the length five and a half times that of the vertex. Hind margin of last
ventral segment medially strongly produced to an obtuse point, lateral angles broadly rounded.
Differing in color from anomala as fol-
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April 1898.1 PS 2THE. 201
cavities and spots on propleurae black. markings bright yellow. Spots at ocelli Medium spots on vertex much larger. Basal larger and including ocelli. Vertex with a angles of scutel and two dots in front of the large median 'black spot at base.
Pronotum
transverse line, black.
Elytra without fus-
with two points at apex and a median line, cons areas. blackish. Veins of elytra somewhat darker Male: Plates lone, about two and a half towards base. -
times aslong as total breadth at base, sides State of Vera Cruz, Mexico (Rev.
concaveon basal two thirds, thence from the obtuse angle thus formed strongly narrowed H' This 'pecies to the tips. iff^^^ in from tlie female
to the novella, group but is very distinct .as follows: Head and sculel other than from either wove//-? or a'yi.owalir. THREE NEW COCCIDAE OF THE SUBFAMILY DIASPINAE. BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, MESILLA, NEW MEXICO. Asj4idiotus (Diasi)idiotus) coniferavfm, n. sp.- $ scale I 1-3 mm. diam., circular 01. nearly so, rather convex (about as in rafiast}, white, with the red-brown exuviae to one side of the middle. First skin usually ex- posed. A white ventral film.
? yellowish-brown, of ordinary form; no
circnmgenital grouped glands; median lobes close together, large, broad and low, rather like those of s$wcatw, second lobe low and broad, subobsolete hut marked by the wide depression between it and the first lobe, it resembles the same lobe in befulae, but is longer; third lobe a rounded prominence, hardly a lobe, as in hetulae\ three spine-like plates (gland-hairs) in the first interlobular interval; three, larger, behind the second lobe; these branch more or less, the last especially having two long lateral branches; a long and strong spine just beyond the third lobe, and another similar spine on the mar- gin a good distance beyond. The two pairs of interlobular incisions are very well-formed and are like those of betulae. Anal orifice large, and only a short distance from the hind end. Lateral portions of caudal plate with numerous filiform (spermatozoon-like) glands.
The embryonic larvae, in the body of the 9, are remarkably large, and have the legs and antennae well formed.
Hab. -Organ Mts., New Mexico. De-
tected by Mr. H. Casad on a small pine tree (doubtless Finns fo~~derosa v. scopulonun) which was brought to Mesilla and used a6 a Christmas tree. The scales occur plentifully on the upper part of the trunk. A. conifer- ar-nm is more like certain European species. than any found in America; it probably
occurs far to the north, and belongs to the boreal or subboreal fauna, reaching its most southern limit, like some other species, in New Mexico.
It is infested by a fungus.
Pseudofia~latoria noacki, n. sp. - $ scale I 2-3 mm. diam.,flat, or very slightly convex, circular or nearly so; stained with light cof- fee-brown, except the margins, which remain white, sometimes the whole scale being whit- ish ; exuviae central to sublateral, rather large, exposed, first skin near margin of second, both skins orange-brown, varying to very pale greenish yellow, the first skin sometimes greenish with a yellow spot at each end. A white ventral film. $ scale
smaller, broad-oval, flat, semitransparent white ; larval skin large, slightly greenish,



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