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pigmented. Inner claspers strongly curved, abruptly tapered near 

 tip which is aciculate. Aedeagus remarkable in having two medially 

 situated shafts, the uppermost of which is short, upcurved, simple 

 and acute at apex, and the lower much longer, upcurved, bifid on its 

 apical fourth, the rami parallel, a little expanded subapically, 

 tapered apically and slightly curved outwardlv and backwardly 

 (figs. 74-75). 



Female. — Coloration as in male, a little more tinged with yellow, 

 especially on head. Eighth sternite decidedly emarginate mediallv 

 (fig. 106) ; apex of ovipositor sheath black. 



Length, 3.5-3.75 mm. 



Holotype and paratype. — Females, Charleston, Mo., June 7, 1916; 

 allotype male, same locality May 18, E. H. Gibson (U.S.N.M.). 

 Other specimens seen are from Falls Church, Va., May 30, N. Banks 

 (M. C. Z.) ; Glencarlyn, La., June 11, 12, 16, 1925, J. K. Malloch 

 (McAtee) ; Urbana, 111, August 28, 1917, October 11, 1914 (111. State 

 Nat. Hist. Survey) ; Ames, Iowa, June 19, 1897, September 25, 1889, 

 (State Coll. Iowa) ; Ames, Iowa, June 19, 1897 (Ball). 



HoJotype, allotype, and paratype. — Cat. No. 21, 393, U.S.N.M. 



TYPHLOCYBA 6-NOTATA Van Duzee 



Empoa querci, var. 6-notata Van Duzb:e, E. P., A preliminary List of tlie 

 Hemiptera of San Diego County, Calif., Tran.s. San Diego Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 2, no. 1, Nov., 1914, p. 57 [Alpine, Calif.] 



Female. — Vertex and pronotum pale yellowish, the pronotum with 

 a deeper yellow round spot on center of disk; scutellum fulvous, 

 paler centrally at base; tegmen rather bluish green hyaline, a green- 

 ish-yellow vitta just exterior to claval suture, the apical cells dusky, 

 dusky spots anterior to crossveins of which the innermost is largest 

 and darkest, a black dot at middle and another at base of inner claval 

 margin; commissure blackish near apex of scutellum, yellowish 

 posteriorly. Dorsum of abdomen chiefly blackish, underparts pale 

 yellowish. Eighth sternite nearly straight across hind margin, very 

 sliirhtly emarginate laterally and very briefly and indistinctly 

 pointed medially. 



Length, 3.5 mm. 



Spreckels, Calif., September 10, 1907, E. D. Ball ; October 5, 1907, 

 on sugar beets, Titus and Ball (Ball). 



TYPHLOCYBA PHRYNE, new species 



Female. — Ground color of head and thorax pale yellowish, teg- 

 mina whitish hyaline, with the following markings, median seam- 

 like line from back of vertex and two spots at middle of vertex 

 translucent allowing the darker subcutaneous parts to show through ; 

 two spots on hind margin of vertex unite with two curved vittae on 



