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anal tube ; dorsal notch broad, reaching the ultimate tergal segment, ventral 

 very shallow. Stiles divergent at base, parallel and somewhat expanded 

 above, apex truncated, hardly attaining the anal tube. Color pale yellow; 

 eyes, antennal setae, the basal angles of the scutellum and a large pleural 

 spot at the base of the posterior and intermediate feet black. Abdomen 

 fulvous or rufous, tergum with a black basal area on each side of variable 

 extent, or black with the margins, dorsal line and hind edge of the two 

 basal segments rufous, venter rarely blackish. Pygofers pale, stiles black. 



In the female the abdomen is larger and the elytra are shorter than in 

 the male. The oviduct scarcely reaches the inner angle of the pygofers. 

 Color a uniform dull fulvous, paler on the abdomen and legs ; antennal setee 

 and tips of the tarsal spines black ; oviduct obscured. 



Macropterous male: Elytra extending one half their length beyond the 

 abdomen, hyaline, nervures pale at base becoming brown toward their apex ; 

 apical nervures six, the second and third contiguous at base. Colors rather 

 clearer than in the brachypterous form. Length, male 2 m. m., female 

 i l /i m. m. 



New York, Ontario. Described from numerous examples of both sexes ; 

 Buffalo and vicinity, May to August, Portage Falls, May 31st; Ridgeway 

 and Muskoka, Ont. about August 1st. Mississippi, H. E. Weed; New 

 Hampshire, C. E. Weed; Michigan, Davis. Here this pretty little species 

 abounds in dry pastures especially where the grass is thin and parched 

 during the heat of summer. 



LIBURNIA LINEATIPES, n. sp. 



Van Duzee, Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., V, p. 191, 1894. 

 Brachyterous form. Male: Vertex almost square, carinas sharp, fovae 

 distinct. Front rather broad, apex feebly concave, sides a little rounded, 

 the lateral carina; obscurely continued across the base, above which the 

 median carinas is divided on the vertex, below it is continued to the apex 

 of the clypeus. Pronotum and scutellum minutely rugose ; carinae distinct, 

 on the former the lateral carinae approach the hind edge where they become 

 obsolete, median carina of the scutellum abbreviated posteriorly. Elytra 

 short, opake, subquadrate, reaching but little beyond the middle of the 

 abdomen, nervures strong, the apical areoles hardly indicated. Basal joint 

 of the hind tarsi distinctly longer than the two following. Last ventral 

 segment deeply concave on its hind margin ; pygofers with a deep notch 

 below ; aperture ovate, rather small. Stiles large, slightly widened before 

 their conical apex, divergent above toward the anal tube and curved to cor- 

 respond with the sides of the aperture to which they approximate, strongly- 

 ciliated. Color deep black ; narrow edge of the frontal carinae, last joint of 

 the antennae, inferior margin of the eye, pectoral pieces, edge of the con- 

 nexivum, two basal segments of the tergum excepting a large discal spot, 

 and the legs, fulvous or dull honey yellow; femora before with two longi- 

 tudinal brown lines, behind with a dusky cloud; tibiae with a brown line 

 before; anterior and intermediate coxae and the apical tarsal joint and a 

 large spot on the post-pectus black. 



