70 E. p. VANDUZEK. 



This species is certainly very close to the preceding, of which it 

 may prove but a variety, but the form of the last ventral segment 

 would seem sufficient to separate it until a more complete series can 

 be procured from the South, It may be distinguished from our 

 other species by the cinereous color, irregularly banded appearance 

 of the elytra, the short white vertex, and the peculiar form of the 

 last ventral segment of the female. 



6. Phlepsiiis riiscipeiinis n. sp. 



Form and size of incisus nearly: vertex short, pronotum strongly wrinkled; 

 elytra broad, in the male fulvous-brown, with a few scattering white dots. 

 Length 6 — 7 mm. 



Head as wide as the pronotum; vertex short, length about one-third the 

 width, and scarcely greater at the middle than next the eye ; disc rather strongly 

 impressed near the base ; front broad, its length and breadth equal, sutures 

 strongly oblique below the eyes ; clypeus quadrangular, slightly widened apically, 

 length twice the least breadth ; lorse in width equal to the apex of the clypeus; 

 cheeks wide, forming a broad margin beyond the lorse. Pronotum al)out three 

 times the length of the vertex, posterior disc strongly wrinkled. Elytra rather 

 broad, but little narrowed apically. 



Genital characters. — Male: Valve about the length of the ultimate ventral 

 segment, triangular, apex obtuse ; plates broad, but slightly gibbous at base ; sides 

 feebly arcuated, and armed with about twelve stout white spines and a few soft 

 hairs, apex obtuse, suture straight. Female: Last ventral segment (PI. I, fig. 2) 

 rather long; apical edge cut about as in falvidorsum, but with the sinuses shal- 

 lower and the lateral lobes more rounded, with their bases defined without by a 

 distinct notch on the side of the segment at about its middle. Pygofers rather 

 large; their tip obtuse, equaling the oviduct, and their suture feebly sinuated 

 apically, the surface armed with about twelve stout spines. 



Color. — Male: Head, pronotum and scutellum, closely and evenly dotted with 

 pale yellow; legs and abdomen darker, sparcely dotted; connexivum, genital 

 pieces, and median line of the venter, pale; hiud edge of the vertex with a 

 small pale spot each side of the middle, and there may be a similar one at tip ; 

 ocelli fulvous, placed on a pale spot. Elytra of a nearly uniform fulvous brown 

 color, sometimes a little whitish toward their inner margin, closely inscribed 

 with fine brown lines and marked by about six or eight small, round, white 

 spots, two on the clavus the balance on apical and anti-apical areoles of the 

 corium. Wings smoky-brown, iridescent, nervures fuscous. Female paler than 

 the male ; front showing two dots and about five arcs on each side, pale. Elytra 

 dull whitish, clouded with fulvous-brown, finely and rather closely inscribed, 

 the white spots larger and rather diffuse. Wings slightly suffused, iridescent; 

 nervures strong, fuscous. 



Described from fourteen male and two female examples taken by 

 Mr. E. B. Southwick near New York City in July, and one pair re- 

 ceived from Mr. Uhler taken the first September. This dark colored 

 species may be distinguished by its broad form, short impressed ver- 

 tex, strongly wrinkled pronotum, and the brown elytra of the nudes 



