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■i-Costal area uniseriate throughout or uniseriate to beyond the middle and 



ime ularh biseriate for a short distance towards the apex; general color 



St^:cous or brown.sh testaceous, the elytra -ottled^ w.th ..^scou^s ^or 



-CosTalareauniseriate' throughout; general color dark brown or fuscous-brown; 

 thTrd antennal segment becoming slightly smaller distally and^about three 



e-DlSoidal^rea^Jci^ ^HbcSj^costal area wUh" rather large areolae; antenn. 

 ^'rSch,ng slightly beyond the base of the elytra, ^'-^^ly^pdos.^^^^^^ ^^^^_ 



-DiscoidaVarea glabrous'; costal area with small or very small areolae; antennae 

 reaching bcvond the base of the elytra, mdistmctly pi use . ■■■,■■■' 



-GSa\^ot;whiS tc^aceous; sometimes sliglnly mottle., with bro»^; 

 costal area with larger areola:; anterior margra of the pronotum neariy tn- 

 angSflar the me<l,a„' earina distmetly elevated anter.orU. anu™a:^rafter 

 slender 



Teleonemia nigrina Champion. 



Teleonemia nigrina Champion, Biologia CentraU-Americana, 

 Rhvnchota, Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Vol. II, P- 41, Tab^III, 

 Figs. 13, 13a and 13b. Monanthia nigrina Uhler MS. (Texas 

 specimen in the British Museum). 



Form moderately elongate, narrow; head with rather short, W^nt and 

 more or less prominent median spine. Antenna) rather short, shghtly 

 variable in length, usually barely reaching the base of the elytra the 

 third segment less than twice the length of the fourth. Rostrum extend- 

 inc^ to the meso- metastemal suture, the rostral groove abruptly and 

 gr?atlv widened on the metastemtmi. General color above grayish or 

 brownish grav, the elytra mottled with black, the body beneath black 

 or piceous. Pronotum rather finely punctate, subtruncate m front, 

 rather sharplv tricatinate, each carina wi^th a row of small areoke^ 

 Elvtra moderately long, slightly constricted beyond the middle, costal 

 area uniserate, the areolae long, narrow and separated by strong trans- 

 verse nervures; subcostal area biseriate. In typical specimens the 

 terminal ventral segment in the female is armed with a long, stout^ 

 obliquely projecting tubercle on each side. Length o-3.b mm., width 

 1-1.5 mm. 



Mexico, Guatemala and Texas (Champion, 1898a, p. 41); 

 New Mexico (Uhler, 1904, p. 362) ; Texas (Barber, 190G, p. 281) ; 

 California (Van Duzee, 1914, p. 11). I have before me over 

 250 specimens of nigrina. representing a great number ot 

 different localities in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Cali- 

 fornia, also specimens from Kansas, Utah, Missouri, Arkansas, 

 Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. 



