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than long, sides pronouncedly sinuate, caudal angle long. Hemelytra 

 liule longer than the body, moderately clothed with a silvery pubescence 

 on the clavus and corium ; membrane lobes unequal. Abdomen luteous, 

 fringing cilife black, sparse. Pedes luteous ; intermediate femoral spur 

 concolorous, long, thin and sharp. 



Coloration. — Eyes dark reddisii-brown. Cranium and prothorax 

 whitish. Scutellum ranges from pure light yellowish to black, disk 

 margined with smoky orange-yellow on the hemelytral margins. 

 Hemelytra ranging from white with vague beginnings of the corial fasciee 

 and black humeri with white membrane, through all intergrades to a form 

 with a blackish stripe along the anterior margin of the corium ; black 

 margins to the clavus along the scutellar edges ; a blackish streak along 

 the corium near to and parallel to the claval suture ; black corial fasciae 

 merging into the black membrane, which shades off into smoky and then 

 white at the apex. One of the types is the most pronouncedly melanic 

 specimen of the species in a series of 60 or so specimens. In this the 

 extreme of scutellar darkness with orange-red edges obtains. The 

 external edges of the clavus are broadly black, shading into smoky to the 

 corial suture; the dark band on the corium parallel to this suture is broad; 

 the humerus has a black streak running into the corium, which is dark 

 luteous, except for the black fasciae which coalesce with the black mem- 

 brane, which in turn lightens to smoky at the apex. The structural 

 characters are the same as in the others. 



Measurements. — Vertex, i mm.; synthlipsis, .15 mm. Pronotum, 

 long., 1.5 mm. to 1.8 mm.; ])ronotinn, lat. (at humeral angle), 2.5 mm, to 

 2.9 mm., (at base) 2 mm. Scutellum, long., 1.6 mm.; scutellum, lat., 2 

 mm. Insect., long., 8 mm to 8.8 mm.; insect, lat. (at humeral angle of 

 pronotum), 2.5 to 2.9 mm. 



Described from sixteen specimens from Raleigh, N. C. Types : 

 Collections V. S. National Museum, American Museum of Natural 

 History, C. S. Brimley, and mine. 



This species very much resembles a dwarf variabilis, but it is easily 

 distinguishable by the ceplulic structure. It comes in section 7 of my 

 table for the separation of species,* which may be varied as follows to 

 include it : 



7. (i and 10) Small slender species. 



8. (9) Vertex three times the synthlipsis, etc , etc, . .variabilis, Fieber. 



9. (8) Vertex more than three times the synthlipsis. 



*Seo JouiiKil X. \. Knt. Soc, xiii, p. 149. 



