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length of the vertex, pits and transverse strife ratlier distinct. Elytra broad, 

 but little narrowed apically. 



Genital characters.— Male: (PI. I, fig. 22) Valve broad, triangular, a little lon- 

 ger than the last ventral segment; apex obtuse, or sometimes subacute; plates 

 broad, nither strongly gibbons at base, sides moderately arcuated, apex subacute, 

 subniargin armed nearly to the apex with stout, pale spines, set on brown dots. 

 Female: Last ventral segment {PI. I, fig. 13) biarcuate. as in fulvidorsum, fusci- 

 pennis, etc., but more strongly produced on the middle, the blunt, more or less 

 deeply notched, apex generally much surpassing the subacute lateral angles. 

 Pygofers stout, shorter than the oviduct. 



Color fulvous-brown, paler on the vertex, anterior edge of the pronotuni and 

 base of the scutellum, closely dotted with pale soiled yellow, the dots frequently 

 coalescing, especially on the vertex ; front marked with about four pale arcs, 

 above which, on each side, is a geminate pale spot. Legs strongly marked. 

 Elj'tra fulvous-brown, obscurely varied with whitish areas, forming three indis- 

 tinct, pale, transverse bands ; a spot at the apex of the claval nervures and about 

 three on the costa, fuscous; nervures brown, or at least dotted with brown, the 

 close, fine reticulations broken more or less into dots. Wings enfumed, nervures 

 strong, brown ; venter with the pale central line distinct, especially iu the male, 

 connexivum broadly pale. 



Described from numerous examples of both sexes. This is the 

 largest northern species of Phlepsius known to me. It is not un- 

 common about Buffalo from the last of July to the middle of Sep- 

 tember in low swampy meadows and other humid situations. I have 

 also taken it near Muskoka Lake, Ontario, and it is the " large va- 

 riety" mentioned in my list of Hemiptera from that locality (Can. 

 Ent. xxi, p. 11, 1889) under the name Allygus irrondus Sav. Mr. 

 Uhler's material contains two or three examples labeled "Delta R. 

 R., September 15th." Mr. E. B. Southwick also has taken it near 

 New York City. 



Its broad depressed form will distinguish this from most of our 

 other species. The elytra are wide and considerably reflexed at their 

 tips, and the anterior edge of the vertex is thin. The form of the 

 last ventral segment of the female varies in being quite strongly 

 produced on the middle with the apical notch at times almost obsolete. 



14. l*lil(>i>»iiii»» iiebuloNiiM u. sp. 



Form of incisus, but larger. Head obtusely angled ; elytra obliquely mottled 

 with fuscous. Length 8.5 mm. 



Head a little wider than the pronotum ; vertex nearly liorizontal, one-fourth 

 longer on the middle than next the eye, apex rounded, edge acute, disc strongly 

 depressed ; front one-fifth longer than broad, sutures straight below the antennaj ; 

 clypeus quadrangular, very slightly widened apically; length nearly twice the 

 width ; cheeks wide, forming a narrow margin below tlie lorse, and slightly sur- 

 passing the clypcus. Pronotum nearly twice the leugtii of the vertex, hind edge 

 snbangularly excavated, surface strongly pitted and wrinkled; scutellum in 

 length eijual to the pronotum. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XIX. . APRIL, 1892. 



