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H. L. DOZIER 



Vol. XXII, No. 3 



Mysidia mississippiensis , sp. nov. 



Technical description. — Head, antennas, pronotiim and scutellum 

 yellowish, covered more or less with whitish powder, abdomen with 

 greenish tinge; abdominal plates meet in a median ridge; head very- 

 narrow, compressed, distinctly produced before the eyes and plainly 

 longer than the pronotimi; eyes dark brown; pronotum narrow with 

 sides flaring-like. Tegmina and wings translucent, of a milky-white 

 color, venation distinctly but not strongly marked; tegmina long and 

 rather narrow, with very light fuscous areas especially along the trans- 

 verse veins and a distinct fuscous patch near middle of the posterior 

 margin of tegmina. Legs very slender, testaceous. 



Length of body, male, 2.50 mm.; female, 3 mm.; wing expansion, 

 male, 15 mm.; female, 17 mm. 



Fig. 2. Mysidia mississippiensis 



Described from a single female taken by the writer sweeping 

 Arundinaria and grass in Oktibbee Swamp near Meridian, 

 Miss., Aug. 14, 1921, and a series of two females and a male 

 taken in a swamp near Leland, Miss., Sept. 15, 1921, by C. J. 

 Drake. 



Type in the author's collection. Paratypes deposited in 

 collections of Prof. Herbert Osborn, Z. P. Metcalf, and the 

 State Plant Board of Mississippi. 



