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. XL Menecles ; ~' Stal, 1867, 527. 



Oval, depressed species, above the medium in size, having 

 the head large, porrect, flat, deeply inserted in thorax; cheeks 

 slightly concave, equalling tylus ; antennae slender, joint 1 

 shorter than head, 2 — 4 subequal, 5 longer ; beak reaching base 

 of third ventral, its second joint almost as long as third and 

 fourth united ; pronotum large, disk with sides much flattened, 

 and front margin deeply and broadly emarginate, side margins 

 feebly but evidently curved ; scutellum almost reaching the tip 

 of corium, its apex rounded ; membrane slightly surpassing ab- 

 domen, its veins anastomosing; connexivum rather broadly ex- 

 posed ; osteolar opening without a sulcus but possessing a 

 prominent curved auricle ; tarsi sulcate above. Genital plate 

 of male broad, its sides concave, hind margin subtruncate, and 

 with a broad shallow median emargination. But one species is 

 known. 



96 (155). Menecles insertus (Say), 1831, 6; I, 317. 



Broadly oval, depressed, but little narrowed behind. Above grayish- 

 yellow, everywhere thickly and evenly marked with rather small fuscous 

 punctures; antennae yellow, joints 4 and 5 piceous, paler at base; pro- 

 notum with a narrow smooth median line which extends back to middle 

 of scutellum; connexivum sprinkled with fuscous punctures; membrane 

 brown without dark spots ; abdomen dull yellow with a median row of 

 rather large black spots, its sides thickly covered with small fuscous 

 punctures; thoracic pleura yellow with numerous coarse dark punctures; 

 mesosternum with a black median shining spot; legs yellow thickly flecked 

 with large black dots. Pronotum with humeri obtusely rounded; disk 

 with front portion but slightly declivent, broadly and shallowly concave 

 behind the front angles. Other characters as given under generic head- 

 ing. Length, 12 — 14 mm.; width, 6.5 — 8 mm. 



Marion, Putnam, Parke, Vigo, Knox, Posey and Crawford 

 counties, Ind., April 27 — Oct. 17 (W. S. B.). Not as yet taken 

 in the eastern and northern portions of the State. Hopkinton, 

 Mass., May 10 (Frost). In Indiana it has been taken for the 

 most part singly while resting on the boles of trees, dead 

 leaves, corded wood or some object of dull hue with which its 

 color blended. I have never taken it by sweeping, and on but 

 one occasion have I found more than one. This was on July 16, 



35 The broad, subparallel form of body, deeply emarginate thorax for reception 

 of head, wide apical portion of scutellum. anastomosing ve^ins of membrane and 

 form of the osteolar projection all show that Menecles is closely related to both 

 Hymenarcys and Caenus, and I have therefore placed it between the two instead of 

 widely separating it from them as did Van Duzee in his Catalogue. 



