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ScLitelUim triangular, sides very slightly arcuate ; median carina dis- 

 tinct ; lateral carina inconspicuous, reaching the posterior margin ; colour 

 uniform honey-yellow. 



Elytra short, extending to the middle of the first abdominal segment, 

 coriaceous, highly polished, veins almost obliterated ; colour pale honey- 

 yellow with an oval blotch of white in the centre of the apical margin ; 

 abdomen honey-yellow but slightly darker than the scutellum and elytra. 



Genitaha uniform honey-yellow, paler than the tergum ; pygofers 

 tapering to a rounded point ; plates extending about one-third the length 

 of the pygofers ; anal style white. Length 3 5 mm. 



Described from a single female taken at Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. ist, 1896. 

 Type in collection of Cornell University. 



Very close to P. delicatus Van Duzee but easily separable from 

 it by the black front, vertex and prothorax. The prothorax lacks the 

 foveœ 50 conspicuous in delicatus and the shape of the front is quite different. 



Pissoiioius foveatus n. sp. 



Brachypterous Ç . — A fairly large species, form long, oval. Vertex 

 slightly rounded in front ; eyes oval, deeply indented below to receive the 

 antennae ; colour gray, irregularly mottled with black ; vertex slighUy 

 longer than wide, slightly wider behind the eyes than before ; fully 

 carinated ; carinse sharp, except the posterior median, which tends to fade 

 out posteriorly ; the anterior median carina forked just below the apex of 

 the head j colour of the vertex yellowish white, with a pair of dark brown 

 fove^e just posterior to the forking of the anterior median carina, one on 

 either side of the carina, and another pair similarly situated, but slightly 

 farther caudad ; there is a yellowish fovea located in each posterior lateral 

 angle of the vertex. 



Front with sides slightly convex ; median carina sharp throughout ; 

 colour yellowish white marked with brown. These markings vary some- 

 what, but may in general be described as follows : According to colour, 

 the front may be divided into four regions ; first, just under the vertex a 

 darker area in which maybe found two deep brown lines extending across 

 the median carina ; these lines extend to the edge of the front ; the second 

 area is light, and the only markings on it are a pair of brown dots 

 on each side at the outer margin; this pale area is about equal in width to 

 the first area. Covering about two-thirds of the remainder of the front is 

 the third area, dark and marked like the first area, except that it is darker 

 and less distinctly marked ; in some specimens it is scarcely more than a 



