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the highlands of North Carolina and Georgia. It is very 

 variable in markings. 



7. S. desiccatus, New sp. 



Dull pale smoky whitish, of nearly the same form as 

 S. sulcipes, but with the cephalic process a little thicker 

 and nearly parallel-sided, not tapering towards the tip, 

 and the veins dotted with pale fuscous. Front minutely 

 flecked with brown, which becomes denser and more 

 conspicuous on the clypeus; rostrum reaching upon the 

 posterior coxae. Pronotum wide and short, the lateral 

 margins oblique, very gently curved, broadly whitish 

 yellow, the posterior margin deeply sinuated, having two 

 large impressed points on the middle of the shield, and 

 the anterior margin of this shield bilobate ; mesonotum 

 pale orange, almost flat, a little shaded with brown, desti- 

 tute of a carinate line on the middle, and with an indented 

 point each side of the pale apex. Hemelytra soiled with 

 pale brown, the veins few, very prominent, pale inter- 

 rupted with brown, the spots more conspicuous on the 

 costa, exterior ulnar twice forked, the inner ulnar forked, 

 all of these divarications bounding long, narrow areas, 

 three row^s of slender cross-veins before the apex, the 

 apical series has four small areoles, those of the middle 

 quadrangular. Wings a little dusky. Underside pale 

 straw yellow, irregularly spotted and marked with dull 

 brown ; metasternum deeply excavated and acutely mar- 

 gined each side. Legs moderate, much darkened with 

 brownish clouds and specks. 



Length to tip of hemelytra 6-6% millims., to end of 

 abdomen <,-$% i^^"^- Width of pronotum 2 mm. Length 

 of cephalic process i^ mm. 



Only two specimens have come to my notice. They 

 were collected in central Texas by Mr. G. W. Belfrage. 



