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at the base, destitute of arolia, similar in structure to villosa. Prono- 

 tum with an apical gibbosely convex area, stricture apparent only at 

 the sides from which an impressed line extends to the rear margin of 

 the calli. 



$. Length 5.7 mm. Head: width across eyes 1.05 mm., width oi 

 vertex .54 mm., length .51 mm., height at base .60 mm. ; pale pubescent, 

 vertex convex, ecarinate ; orange red, tylus and a transverse impres- 

 sion at the base black, sutures and eyes blackish, vertex usually with 

 two longitudinal fuscous to blackish rays. Rostrum scarcely attaining 

 the posterior margin of the sternum, blackish, the first two segments 

 mostly reddish. 



Antennae: segment I, length .43 mm., width .14 mm., blackish, some- 

 times with reddish ; II, length 2.05 mm., width .14 mm., quite uniform- 

 ly thickened, black, thickly clothed with short black hairs; III, length 

 .60 mm., slender, width .06 mm., black, only a few hairs with very fine 

 pubescence; IV, length .40 mm., similar to III. 



Pronotum: length 1.42 mm., width at base 1.99 mm., apex .80 mm., 

 height at apex .91 mm. ; bright red or orange red when faded ; disk 

 shallowly punctate, more or less transversely rugose ; calli apparent 

 as impressed ovals, usually black, shining, joined at the side by an im- 

 pressed line leading to the anterior angles, thus defining the arched 

 apical portion or gibbosely convex hood ; coxal cleft extending high as 

 the lateral margin of the disk, separated from the above impressed line 

 only by a thin lateral projection. Scutellum bright red, pubescent, 

 strongly convex, arched, with a broad median longitudinal impression. 

 Sternum red, side pieces covered with a white flocculent wax-like ma- 

 terial, often present in greater degree along the full length of the 

 body. 



Hemclytra : greatest width 2 mm., black, shining, somewhat trans- 

 lucent, roughly wrinkled, covered with long erect pale pubescence. 

 Membrane evenly clouded with fuscous, except a pale spot at the apex 

 of the cuneus, veins dark fuscous. 



Legs : bright red, shining, apices of the femora and a longitudinal 

 bar or row of dots on the under side, blackish ; tibiae and tarsi black. 



V enter : red, pale pubescent ; genital claspers blackish, dextral clasper 

 small, sinistral clasper long and slender, quite similar to that in Largi- 

 dea rubida and davisi. 



9 . Length 5.6 mm., width 2.5 mm., more robust than the male ; sec- 

 ond antennal segment more slender, thickest at the apex ; vertex with 

 two longitudinal black rays ; the femora more so and the posterior 

 margins of the abdominal segments and surrounding the ovipositor, 

 blackish ; entire body above and below coated with the white flocculent 

 wax like material. 



Described from 3 5 5 and 3 $ 9 , July 21-28, 1914, El 



