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Feet pilose, posterior femora reaching the apex of the ab- 

 domen, no thicker than the others. Tarsi: first joint longest, 

 the second shortest. Claws without arolia but armed with a 

 strong basal, acute tooth. 



Neobothynotus modestus n. sp., type of the genus. 



Body brown in the male, in the female piceous, shining. Head, pros- 

 ternum, first joint of the antennae and the base of the second 

 joint, the stricture, sometimes the base of the calli rufous. Head 

 smooth, hairy, its width twice that of the eye ; clypeus piceous. Ros- 

 trum in the male testaceous, in the female nigropiceous, the second 

 joint the longest, as long as the second joint of the antennae. Antennae, 

 apex of the second joint piceous, in some females both the first and 

 the second joints are nigropiceous, the slender third and fourth soiled 

 white, the third longer than the fourth. 



Pronotum deeply, closely punctured, hairy, brown in the male, in the 

 female nigropiceous, calli (base always) piceous, stricture rufous. 

 Scutellum deeply impressed at base, hairy, piceous. 



Hemelytra rugose, minutely punctate, a row of more evident punc- 

 tures on the subcosta, claval suture and on the commissure, the color 

 the same as that of the pronotum and of the pilose cuneus. Membrane 

 smoky, iridescent, rugose, pubescent above and below, its length in 

 the male longer than the basal width of the pronotum, in the ma- 

 cropterous female as long as, and in the short-winged female three- 

 fourths as long as the basal width of the pronotum; apex of the large 

 cell wide, at the short round angle of this cell there are signs of two 

 very short open apical veins ; a white spot on the membrane below the 

 cuneus. 



Abdominal segments of the male rufous edged with black, in the 

 female almost or entirely piceous. 



Legs of the male testaceous, of the female sometimes entirely nigro- 

 piceous, the basal acute tooth of the claws about one-third the length 

 of the claw. One short-winged female is entirely piceous excepting 

 the top of the head and the stricture. 



Length : male 5 mm,, female 4 mm., short-winged female 3.8 mm. 



Captured in September at Greeensburg, Pennsylvania, with 



the sweepnet in Col. Huff's park. It is also found in Illinois. 



Described from twelve specimens in the college collection. 



Type: A male, Greensburg, Pa., in St. Vincent College coll., 



Beatty, Pa.* 



The male of this species strongly resembles in color and 

 general shape Renter's figure (I, plate IV, vol. V, Hem. Gymn. 

 Europae) of Bothynotus pilosus Boh. 



*An allotype I will send to Philadelphia and a paratype to the Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



