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apex broad, tr.iiicated, suture straight, submargin armed with long white spines 

 Pygofers shorter than the phites. Female: ultimate ventral segment (PI. I, ficr' 

 4; long, its apical edge hisinuated, with two short triangular teeth including "a 

 shallow median notch ; pygofers equaling the oviduct in length, their numerous 

 white spines set on brown dots. 



Color: Female whitish cinereous, slightly tinged with fulvous on the head 

 irroratious pale and quite evenly distributed over the pronotum, vertex, and base 

 of the front; apex of the face nearly clear, the sutures embrowned; scutellum 

 obscurely varied with darker and exhibiting the ordinary marginal spots, and 

 one on the disc of the apical area. Elytra white, reticulations rather few and 

 pale, but evenly distributed. Wings white, slightly enfumed on their apical 

 margin, nervures pale brown. Male more clearly marked than the female; face 

 brown, closely dotted with pale and showing about three pale arcs on the front. 

 Abdomen tinged with fulvous-brown and dotted with pale. Elytra with a few 

 transverse fulvous clouds and closely inscribed with fulvous-brown. Wings 

 smoky with fuscous nervures. 



Texas; Aaron. Described from one male and three female exam- 

 ples received from Prof. Herbert Osborn. This pale form most 

 closely resembles sjmtulatns, from which it differs by the characters 

 of the clypeus, the wider head, the shorter, more depressed vertex, 

 and the form of the ultimate ventral segment of the female, the 

 lateral angles of which are more produced, and almost angled in 

 spatulatns, and the median notch is narrower and more acute. 



5. Flilepsius i>alliclii*« n. sp. 



Form of the preceding, whitish cinereous with fuscous irroratious. elytra ob- 

 scurely banded. Length 7.5 mm. 



Head a little wider than the pronotum; vertex as in the preceding species: 

 front convex, length about one-seventh greater than the breadth, widt'li at apex 

 one-fourth that on the base; clypeus as in cinereus, but less expanded apically. 

 and the edge of the cheek is more deeply excavated above the lateral angle than 

 in that species. Pronotum nearly flat, almost two and a half times the length 

 of the vertex, hind edge but feebly arcuated. 



Genital characters.— Female: Last ventral segment (PI. I, fig. 5) long, obtu.sely 

 subtriangular, the broad apex emarginate, the sides interrupted by the small 

 lobate lateral angles. Pygofers as in cinereus. 



Color pale cinereous, tinged with fulvous beneath and on the disc of the pro- 

 notum ; pronotal irroratious irregular on the anterior submargin, leaving from 

 four to six white spots; vertex nearly free from irroratious, except near the 

 eyes. Irroratious on the face fine, omitting a band on the base of the clypeus 

 and crossing the middle of the lorse, another on the cheeks from the eyes to the 

 base of the lorse. and on the front an interrupted median line and about four 

 arcs. Femora strongly handed with brown. Elytra white, with a narrow sub- 

 basal band, and about three coalescing bands beyond the middle, forming au 

 obscure w pale fulvous ; reticulations few, except on the fulvous areas. Whigs 

 whitish hyaline, nervures fuscous, last ventral segment piceous. with a pale 

 median line and lateral angles. 



Texas ; Aaron. Described from a single female example received 

 from Prof. Osborn. 



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