April, 'og] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 165 



specimens have been seen was at first considered as a distinct 

 .species, but it possesses the same genitalia and the character- 

 istic venation of frontalis and may well be an extreme color 

 variation of that species. 



Platymetopius scriptus n. sp. 



Resembling frontalis, but with a dark face and shorter vertex. 

 Length $ 3.5 mm. 



Vertex intermediate in form between frontalis and brevis about one- 

 third longer on middle than against the eye, scarcely longer than the 

 pronotum, disc slightly convex, the margin not produced. Face short 

 straight, elytra broad, moderately short, the anteapical cells broad and 

 parallel margined. Male valve long, broad, roundingly pointed, plates 

 triangular, roundingly narrowing and then slightly produced at apex. 



Color Vertex brown with a line at the apex, an oblique dash on 

 either side, a pair of irregularly quadrate spots on the anterior disc 

 and another pair at the base tawny white. The quadrate spots often 

 separated by a pair of light lines. Pronotum irregularly maculate with 

 dark brown, traces of five light stripes. Scutellum, orange and brown. 

 Elytra heavily irrorate with smoky brown, the costa lighter, usually 

 the black nervures are very narrowly light margined and there are a 

 number of ivory white dots in the ends of the cells, especially towards 

 the apex. Face heavily irrorate with dark brown, the vertex margin 

 narrowly light, as is also a short oblique crescent on the front just 

 beneath the apex. 



Described from five specimens, all males, from Onaga, Kan- 

 sas. Readily separated from frontalis by the dark face and 

 from fuscifrons by the shorter, stouter build and the parallel 

 anteapicals. 



Platymetopius abrupt us n. sp. 



Resembling frontalis, but larger, broader, and with a dark face. 

 Length 4.25 mm. 



Vertex broad, nearly right angled, broader and shorter than in 

 frontalis, a third longer than the pronotum in the female, slightly 

 longer than the pronotum in the male, elytra broad, venation regular, 

 the anteapical cells parallel margined, about ten reflexcd veinlets to 

 costa. Face strongly sloping ; profile straight. 



Color Male heavily irrorate and reticulate with dark smoky !>ru\vn 

 above, leaving but a few small dots and reticulations of the pale ground 

 color visible. An ivory line on apical third of vertex and a narrower 

 one along margin. Elytra with the usual ivory white dots in the ends of 

 the cells. Face and below heavily irrorate with dark smoky brown. The 



