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sometimes a darker suffusion occupies the caudal margin of this 

 area, this darker suffusion is occasionally produced cephalad on 

 the sides, or further developed and reuniting cephalad, thus some- 

 times leaving but a small mesal spot of reddish brown; in speci- 

 mens of the maximum intensive coloration, all but the warm buff 

 pronotal margins is suffused, shining blackish brown. Tegmina 

 of general coloration, moderately broadly bordered on the costal 

 margin with cream color. Costal area of wing suffused with gen- 

 eral coloration, mesal portion of this area warm bufT, this extend- 

 ing, to varying degrees, toward the wing margin; other portions 

 of wing transparent, moderately iridescent, with veins of general 

 coloration and distal portion of wing weakly suffused with the same. 

 Limbs and ventral surface of body tawny, individually varying to 

 dark mars brown; ventral abdominal segments usually very nar- 

 rowl}^ margined laterad with cream color. 



Though sometimes found in litter on the ground, this species is 

 more often encountered in the foliage of heavy weeds and about 

 flowers. 



Specimens Examined: 56; 14 males and 42 females. 



Dallas, Texas, VI, 8 to VHI, i, (J. Boll), i cf , 3 9 ,"^ [M. C. Z. and Hebard Cln.]. 



Waco, Tex., V, 12 to \TII, 8, (Belfrage; a ver>- rare species found at night), 

 I cf , 2 9, [M. C. Z.]. 



Blanco County. Tex., i 9. [A. X. S. P.]. 



Columbus, Tex., \'I, 22, i d", [U. S. X. M.]; VII, 30, 2 9, [Univ. Kansas and 

 Hebard Cln.]. 



Zavalla County, Tex., I\', 27, 1910, (Hunter and Pratt), i c?", i 9, [U. S. X. M.]. 



Carrizo Springs. Tex.. (A. W'adgymar), i 9. [Hebard Cln.]. 



Del Rio, Tex., VI, 22 to 27, (H. Wickham). i 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



Mercedes, Tex.. II, 1909, (T. D. Usbahns), i c^, [U. S. X. M.]. 



Santa Maria, Tex., \'. 29, 1895. i 9 , [U. S. X. M.]. 



Brownsville, Tex., i 9 ; (C. H. T. Townsend), i 9 ; IV, 30 to \T, 5. 1904, (H. S. 

 Barber), 2 cf , 2 9 ; \', 23, 1913. (in dead brush pile), i 9 ; VT, (F. H. Snow; Wick- 

 ham), 2 cf, II 9 \-^^ \TH, 31, 1912, (Hebard; not scarce in heavy weeds, sun- 

 flowers, etc., in openings of river plain jungle scrub), 4 cf , 6 9 , entire Brownsville 

 series type, allotype, paratypes, [Hebard Cln., Univ. Kansas, .A. X. S. P., U. S. X. M. 

 and Davis Cln.]. 



2°^ It is upon these specimens and those from Waco, that Scudder based his "Te.xas" 

 record of cincta. 



-^'' Upon a specimen of this series Rehn's record of oblongata was based, later referred 

 by Caudell to uitercepta. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



