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coarsely punctate or pitted, beset with a few hairs, moderately con- 

 stricted at the sides, with a broad, median, longitudinal furrow in 

 which are two rather regular rows of foveffi, with a rather broad, trans- 

 verse, punctate depression on each side just back of the collar. Collar 

 prominent, ornated with foveee. Humeri well defined by a sulcus in 

 which is a row of six or seven fovese; posterior margin of pronotum also 

 with a transverse row of fovea. Sides of thorax with quite regular rows 

 of fovese. Scutcllum distinctly carinate. Rostral sulcus broad ; rostrum 

 extending a little beyond the thorax. Acetabuli very far apart, especially 

 the intemiediate and posterior pairs. Legs rather stout, hairy; claws 

 very long, almost half the length of the terminal tarsal segment. Entire 

 body velutinous. Abdomen densely hairy beneath; connexivum nar- 

 roAV. Venter longitudinally depressed in the male, concave in the 

 female. Hemelytra with large, hairy nervures. Length 1.6 mm.; 

 width .75 mm. 



/a. 



Fig. la. Wing of Merragata foveata n. sp. 

 Fig. lb. Wing of M. brunnca n. sp. 



Color: General color blackish. Antennte dark-3'ellow, the terminal 

 segment infuscated. Prothroax blackish, the disc more or less reddish- 

 brown. Legs testaceous, the tips of tarsi infuscated (the claws excepted) . 

 Body beneath blackish, the thorax and abdomen covered with a grayish 

 pubescence. Hemelytra white, with dusky patches; nervures brownish- 

 black. Wings white, opaque. 



Numerous macropterous examples, taken in a stagnant 

 pond at Ira (Summit Co.), Ohio, August 31, 1916, by Prof. 

 Hine and the writer. I have received a specimen from 

 Prof. C. P. Gillette labeled, Fort Collins, Colorado, August 8, 

 1898. Type in the author's collection; paratypes in the col- 

 lections of Prof. Osborn, Prof. Gillette, Prof. Van Duzee, Ohio 

 State University, and the National Museum. 



