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margins. Rostrum reaching to near the posterior margin of the 

 hind coxfe, yellowish to brownish, the apex blackish. 



Antenncr: segment I, length 20, greenish, frequently darkened 

 with brownish; segment II, length 70, dark brownish to fuscous, 

 sometimes basal half paler; segment III, length 42, dark brownish; 

 segment IV, length 3S, same colour as the preceding; all the seg- 

 ments with very fine, pale yellowish pubescence. 



Pronotum: length 33, width at base 62, apex 32, width of 

 collar 24; greenish, darkened with brownish on the basal half, 

 two blackish rays on the disk, one behind each callus, in the darkest 

 specimens extending across the calli, widening behind and nearly 

 reaching the basal margin; coxal cleft marked with reddish, sides 

 just posterior to this much darkened; disk shining, very finely 

 and closely punctured, the punctures more or less transversely 

 confluent especially on the basal half. Scutellum greenish darkened 

 with brownish, transversely rugose; specimens maturing on Ilex 

 and Coniiis frequently have a longitudinal median fuscous line. 

 Sternum pale beneath with the sides reddish as are the lateral 

 parts of the meso- and metathorax. 



Hemelytra: greatest width 2.3 mm., closely and minutely 

 punctured, with fme yellowish pubescence; dark brownish to 

 fuscous, darker on the apical half of the corium and across the tip 

 of the embolium; embolium except the tip. the base and narrow 

 lateral margin of the corium, pale greenish; cuneus clear, tinged 

 with yellow, the very tip sometimes slightly darkened; membrane 

 darkened with fuscous veins and narrow margin at the apex 

 of the cells and bordering the cuneus, a spot along the margin 

 beyond the apex of the cuneus and extending inward to the cells, 

 clear, thus isolating a fuscous spot along the margin close to the 

 apex of the cuneus. 



Legs: coxae pale, usually with a spot of reddish at the base, 

 femora greenish to yellowish, the posterior femora and often the 

 intermediate pair twice annulated near the apex with reddish, 

 frequently the whole apical half quite reddish; tibicC greenish, 

 som.etimes slightly darkened toward the tip, spines pale br9wnish, 

 tarsi yellowish to brownish, darker at the apex. 



Venter: pale greenish beneath, a broad lateral band and the 

 genital segment, dark reddish with brownish. The male claspers 



