68 E. p. VAN DUZEE. 



uer than broad, its apex truncated. Lorae. large, outer angles of the cheeks 

 rounded; temples broad. Pronotuni short and broad, about two and one-half 

 times the length of the vertex : anterior edge nearly straight between the eyes, 

 posterior feebly concave. Elytra broader apically than in irroratus. 



Genital characters. — Male: Valve much shorter than the ultimate ventral 

 segment, broad twangular, the apex obtuse ; plates rather short, together form- 

 ing a nearly equilateral triangle, their acute flaccid points recurved, and heavily 

 fringed, edged with a row of stout bristles. Female: Last ventral segment (PI. 

 I, fig. 3) long, outer angles rounded, apex truncated, with a short blunt median 

 tooth, diflCerentiated by a shallow notch each side of the feeble central keel. 

 Pygofers short, much narrowed apically, their acute tips surpassed by the ovi- 

 duct, the sutural edges armed with stout white spines set on black dots. 



Color pale testaceous, varying to fulvous, paler on the base of the scutellum 

 and beneath. Head, pronotum and scutellum irrorate with pale fulvous or 

 whitish, the pale color predominating on the head and basal disc of the scutel- 

 lum ; ocelli rufous; eyes rufous or brown. Beneath pale, legs without bands in 

 the female. Males with the anterior and intermediate femora twice banded 

 with pale brown, with a trace on the hind pair. Elytra white, clouded with 

 fulvous on the base and with a broad brown band on the middle and another at 

 the apex, the two latter coalescing and marked with a small white spot on the 

 costa close to the apex and about three similar ones on the inner edge of the 

 clavus; the brown areas closely and finely reticulated, a few coarse reticulations 

 on the white areas, and the nervures brown : apex of the clavus fuscous. In the 

 male the costa is marked with a row of small fuscous spots, two of which, near 

 the apex, are larger. Wings slightly infuscated, nervuj-es brown. 



This seems to be oue of the rarest s[)ecies of this large genus, at 

 least in the Northern States. Mr. Uhler's lot contains a typical 

 example, a male, received by him from Dr. Fitch and two small 

 specimens from Texas, and I have examined a female taken by Mr. 

 E. B. Southwick, near New Yoi'k City, in July, and another from 

 Prof \). S. Kellicott taken at Columbus, Ohio. The species may be 

 readily distinguished by its fulvous tinge, banded elytra, and short, 

 wide vertex. Dr. Fitch reports it on pine. 



4. Plilepsius ciiiereus n. sp. 



Form of irroratus ; vertex short, feebly angled, color whitish cinereous, elytra 

 rather sparsely inscribed. Length 7 mm. 



, Head as wide as the pronotum ; vertex moderately impressed across the disc, 

 one-fifth longer at the middle than next the eye, apex scarcely angled, anterior 

 edge very obtuse ; front about one-fourth longer than broad ; clypeus moderately 

 widened toward the broad truncated apex, length nearly twice the greatest 

 breadth ; outer edge of the cheek nearly rectilinear either side of the prominent 

 lateral angle, forming a wide margin beyond the rather small and narrow lora, 

 and attaining the apex of the clypeus; temples broad. Pronotum about three 

 times the length of the vertex, hind edge distinctly arcuated, lateral angles 

 broadly rounded, wrinkles nearly obsolete, pits distinct. Elytral appendix narrow. 

 Genital characters. — Male: Valve broad triangular, a little longer than the 

 last ventral segment, apex truncated ; plates broad, twice the length of the valve, 



