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beyond the middle and the fourth black. Rostrum pale, reaching almost 

 to the middle of the mesosternum ; inner surface of the basal joint black- 

 ish, extreme tip infuscated. Pronotum oblong;, a little widened posteriorly; 

 abruptly arcuately narrowed before ; behind the middle with a broad 

 strongly punctured and slightly constricted band behind which the base 

 is almost itnpunctate and pale rufo-testaceous ; surface anteriorly very 

 obscurely punctured, without a discal fova. Legs pale rufo-testaceous ; 

 the anterior femora a little darker at base. Scutelltim black, distinctly 

 carinate at apex. Elytra testaceous white, an obscure commissural line, 

 the apical margin and two longitudinal streaks, fuscous; nervures 'of the 

 membrane concolorous at base, strong and blackish posteriorly. Abdo- 

 men blackish castaneous ; fifth ventral segment forming a broadly rounded 

 sinus, the base of which just passes under the apex of the fourth segment. 

 Length 4^2 mm. 



Described from two female examples taken at Jacksonville, 

 Florida, by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slossou, to whom it gives 

 me pleasure to dedicate this interesting addition to our southern 

 fauna. One of these specimens is macropterous and the elytra 

 attain the apex of the fifth tergal segment. The other is 

 brachypterous, and in this they reach only to the middle of 

 the second segment. I took another specimen at Raleigh, 

 North Carolina, on April 17, 1908. 



Isclmodemus conicus n. sp. 



Allied to Sallei. Black ; antennae toward its base, narrow hind margin 

 of the pronotum, elytra, osteolar orifices, legs and rostrum testaceous or 

 rufo-testaceous ; slender margins of the connexivum pale testaceous. 

 Elytra more or less clouded with fuscous at least along the claval suture 

 and on the apex of the corium ; membrane somewhat infuscated, with 

 four strong straight nervures. Antennae : first joint thick, oval, extend- 

 ing for fully half its length beyond the tylus ; second and fourth subequal ; 

 third scarcely shorter ; apical half of the third and fourth blackish. Ros- 

 trum reaching to about the middle of the mesosternum. Acetabulae and 

 hind edge of the metasternum conspicuously rufo-testaceous like the 

 orifices and legs. Carinate tip of the scutellurn pale. Elytra not com- 

 pletely developed in these specimens, passing the middle of the fourth 

 dorsal segment of the abdomen. Venter clothed with a grey pubescence 

 but showing a slender black line connecting the stigmata, and a black 

 point on each segment below this ; all the segments very narrowly edged 

 with pale. Length 7-9 mm. 



Described from one pair taken at Galveston, Texas, in May 

 by the late Prof. F. H. Snow, to whom I am indebted for 

 many interesting insects from the southwest. 



