1898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 65 



FIVE NEW SPECIES OF PHLEPSIUS. 



By C. F. BAKER, Ala. Polytechnic Inst. Auburn, Ala. 



Phlepsius dentatus n. sp. tf. Length 7 mm. YormoUuunidus. Head 

 broader than thorax; vertex rather strongly angulate before, nearly as 

 long as half the width between eyes, or three-fifths the length of the pro 

 notum; disc distinctly broadly depressed, anterior edge acute; front broad 

 above, rapidly narrowing to clypeus, an eighth longer than wide, about 

 two and a half times the length of the clypeus, sides obtusely angled just 

 below antennal pits, then broadly shallowly incurved above; pronotum 

 sparsely punctured on posterior half, slightly incurved behind; width little 

 less than two and one-fifth times length. Elytra slightly narrowed toward 

 tips. Color pale fulvous. Head and thorax thickly irrorate with deep 

 fulvous, leaving a few very small lighter areas. Elytra whitish, veins light 

 brown, with several more or less extensive very pale fulvous clouds in 

 three indistinct transverse bands; irrorations sparse and weak; fore and 

 middle femora imperfectly biannulate with fulvous. Abdomen above and 

 below somewhat darker. Plate subtriangular, produced at tip in a narrow 

 projection as long as rest of plate; valves longer than entire width across 

 base, sides rounded below, contracted at upper two thirds, tip flaring and 

 curved, the inner extremities each with a short, inwardly bent, dark 

 brown tooth. 



Described from one male in the Uhler collection. It was taken 

 on the Delta Railroad, eight miles northeast of Baltimore. This 

 species differs from any other American Phlcpsius in the form of 

 the male genitalia. 



Phlepsius pulchripennis n. sp. 5 . Length 5.5 mm. Small and slender, 

 form more nearly of irroratus. Head slightly broader than thorax; ver- 

 tex obtusely angulate, length half of the width between the eyes, or half 

 the length of the pronotum; disc gently convex, anterior edge obtusely 

 rounded onto the front; front rather long and narrow, a half longer than 

 wide, two and three-fourths times the length of the clypeus, sides nearly 

 straight; pronotum obscurely wrinkled on posterior three-fourths, nearly 

 straight behind, width about two and one-sixth times the length. Elytra 

 distinctly narrowed towards the tip. Color sordid cinereous. Head more 

 or less irregularly smutted with blackish; pronotum with a few scattering 

 irregular brown markings. Elytra milky white and veins brown, except 

 a large portion of costal cell, which is transparent and without super- 

 numerary veins or markings, the supernumerary veins moderately nu- 

 merous elsewhere; three black spots on apical half of costa, one in mid- 

 dle basal cell, and one on clavus next the clavus next the claval suture ; 

 reticulations very unevenly distributed and confined mostly to median 

 portion of elytra, being largely wanting along commissural margin and 

 costa; fore and median femora biannulate with brown. Last ventral seg- 

 ment as long as broad; hind margin shallowly Insinuate. 



