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the former narrowly edged with pale; elytra black or piceous-black, the 

 outer portion of basal half of corium sometimes dull yellow; cuneus pale 

 yellow, the extreme tip piceous ; base and cells of membrane in great part 

 dusky, apical half paler; legs, first antennal and base of second straw- 

 yellow; under surface piceous, genital region paler. Pronotum and scu- 

 tellum more coarsely, closely and evenly punctate than in amaenus. Ely- 

 tra finely densely and evenly punctate. Length, 4.8 — 5.2 mm. 



Posey County, IncL, June 6. Described from Indiana and 

 recorded elsewhere only from Massachusetts, Connecticut and 

 New York. Say mentions a large whitish-yellow spot at "tip 

 of corium" which, unless he referred to the cuneus, is not 

 present in my specimens. 



823 (1041). Neoborus amcenus (Reuter), 1909, 48. 



Oblong-oval. Color exceedingly variable, in the typical form green- 

 ish-yellow, glabrous, shining, with apex of tylus, cheeks, a median line 



on vertex, usually five lines or oblong 

 spots on disk of pronotum, inner 

 apical half of clavus and apical 

 third of corium, bright reddish or 

 blackish; cuneus and membrane a 

 uniform pale translucent; legs pale 

 greenish-yellow, apical third of hind 

 femora with two reddish spots ; tarsal 

 claws and tip of beak fuscous. An- 

 tennae greenish-yellow, the tips of 

 joints 2 and 3, and all of 4 fuscous; 

 joint 1 about one-third longer than 

 width of vertex; 2 nearly two and a 

 half times the length of 1, male, twice 

 as long as 1, female; 3 slightly longer 

 than 4, the two united two-thirds the 

 Fig 175 x 10 length of 2. Pronotum rather sparse- 



( After Dickerson & Weiss). i y> deeply and unevenly punctate. 



Scutellum with but few widely scattered punctures. Clavus coarsely and 

 rather closely punctate, corium more finely and sparsely so. Length, 

 4.8—5.2 mm. (Fig. 175). 



Marion, Vermilion and Posey counties, Ind., May 11 — Sept. 

 18; swept from foliage of ash sprouts in low moist alluvial 

 grounds (W. S. B.). Evanston, 111., Aug. 20 {Gerhard). Staten 

 Island, N. Y., and Trenton, N. J. (Davis). Breeds on several 

 species of ash throughout its range, which extends from 

 Quebec and New England west to the Dakotas and Kansas ; not 

 recorded in the east south of Maryland. Uhler (1894, 264) 

 states that it is very common in Maryland on the linden tree 



