SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN GENERA AND SPECIES IN THE GROUP FORMERLY CALLED PLATYMETOPIUS (RHYNCHOTA, HOMOPTERA)

Extract

Resembling calliandrus in size and form but light with vertex slightly acute and twice banded with ivory. Length 4 mm.

Vertex slightly acute but shorter, broader than in loricatus with a rounding apex, only slightly exceeding the pronotum in length. Color: grey much lighter than in calliandrus with the appearance of three or four transverse light bands, the first of which, half way between the eyes and apex of vertex, is made up of an ivory semi-circle around a dot on the margin, on either side and two pairs of dashes between these: the second is on tlie basal third of vertex; the third across the scutellum and soinetimes a narrow one on the disk of pronotum.