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through its entire length. Front regularly tapering to the wedge-shaped 

 clypeus. Pronotum set into the head as xnfloridanus. 



Colour : Vertex pale creamy, an oval brown spot on either side the 

 disc connected to the posterior margin by a line. Pronotum and scutellum 

 milky, sparsely mottled with brown. Elytra milky, sparsely reticulated 

 with brown, a few darker snots along the margin, and number of milky 

 spots on the disc. Face finely irrorate with pale tawny. 



Genitalia : Male valve broad ami short, bluntly rounding ; plates 

 small, margins slightly concave, their rounding apices upturned, about three 

 times the length of the valve. Disc of the plates ivory-white, polished. 



Described from two males from Florida, from Mrs. Slosson. This 

 species approaches costomaculatus in the shape of vertex and the lack of 

 dark ornamentation, but is quite distinct in other characters. 



Phlepsius tloridanus, n, sp. — Resembling irroratus, but smaller, form 

 of pulchripennis, but with a longer vertex and about seven spots on costa. 

 Length, 9 5 mm. 



Vertex twice wider than long, half the length of the pronotum, a trifle 

 longer on middle than against the eye, disc almost flat, margin rounding 

 to front except for the slightly conically-produced apex, front broad above, 

 almost regularly nan owing to the clypeus. Pronotum long, more than half 

 its length within the curve of the head. Elytra long, appressed, venation 

 as in irroratus. 



Colour : Vertex coarsely irregularly inscribed with tawny brown, a 

 circle around each ocellus, a spot on the apex of vertex, a dash on either 

 side, a crescent on the disc connected with the apex by a line and four 

 points on the posterior margin ivory-white. Pronotum obscurely mottled 

 with brown and white. Scutellum soiled yellow, with three ivory points. 

 Flytra milky, sparsely but rather evenly reticulate with tawny, about seven 

 dark spots along costa. Face finely irrorate with tawny, a few spots above 

 and short arcs below ivory-white. 



Genitalia : Female segment rather long, rounding posteriorly, with a 

 pair of small rounding lobes on the median fourth. 



Described from a single female from Biscayan Bay, Florida, from Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson. This species is intermediate in character between 

 the costomaculatus group and the regular Phlepsids, but probably belongs 

 with the former. 



Phlepsius tubus, n. sp. — Resembling fuscipennis, Van Duzee, but 

 smalier and stouter, with a narrower vertex and more of a tawny fulvous 

 shade. Length, 5.25 mm. 



