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and from its outer angles a thin line to each ocellus, and before it is connected 

 with a pair of brown spots in the white apical area; face pale, marked with 

 brown on the disc of the cheeks, lorse and clypeus, and on the front are about 

 eight brown arcs and a few punctures; autenual pit and a spot at the lower 

 angle of the eye fuscous. Prothorax with a brown line below the calloused 

 lateral margin. Abdomen with the base of the dorsal segments and a few marks 

 below, brown. Wings slightly enfumed, nervures fuscous. 



Described from five examples. One of these, wanting the abdo- 

 men, seems to be a male, the others are females. " Texas, Aaron," 

 three examples ; and " Ames, Iowa;" one example, received from Mr. 

 Osborn. One example without locality is in the lot sent bv Mr. 

 Uhler. Two of Mr. Osborn's specimens are larger and fulvous- 

 brown in color, and might readily be mistaken for Gyponas. 



16. Flilep^iiis OTSitus n. sp. 



Form broad ovate, elytra short and broad, whole insect rather clearly and evenly 

 marked. Head narrow, obtusely pointed. Length 5 mm. 



Female: Head narrow, vertex horizontal, convex, not depressed on the disc, 

 length at the middle one-half greater than next the eye, apex obtuse, passage to 

 the front rounded ; front one-third longer than broad, sutures arcuated below the 

 antennre, apex a little excavated ; clypeus long, widened toward either end, base 

 obtusely angled, apex truncated ; lorse large, inner angle rounded ; cheeks broad, 

 forming a wide margin beyotid the lorje. outer angles prominent. Prouotum 

 short, hind edge nearly straight; posterior disc distinctly wrinkled ; pits large, 

 confined to a broad arcuated band jiarallel to the anterior margin ; transverse 

 impressed line of the scutellum straight and conspicuous. Elytra broad and 

 short, but little surpassing the abdomen : appendix broad. 



Genital characters. — Ultimate ventral segment (PI. I, fig. 16) short, broadly 

 excavated on the apical margin, with a sinuated median notch reaching nearly 

 to its base, outer angles rounded, obtuse. Pygofers broad and short, strongly 

 narrowed apically, but moderately exceeded by the oviduct; apex with a few 

 stout pale spines. 



Color soiled yellowish white; vertex with two spots on the anterior margin 

 near the apex and a broad transverse band on the disc fulvous, with vermiculate 

 brown marks, an extension of which touches the posterior margin on either side 

 near the eye, central impressed line short edged with white; front fulvous- 

 brown, coarsely irrorate with pale dots forming a broad median baud and about 

 six lateral arcs; clypeus with two brown spots at base and a few smaller ones 

 along either side of the median line; cheeks and lora; with a few fulvous clouds 

 and brown marks, aggregated beneath the antennse; pectoral pieces piceous, 

 edged with pale, and a large piceous spot covers the apex of the propleura. 

 Thighs strongly banded ; venter fulvous, irrorate with brown, median line and 

 lateral angles of the last ventral segment white; tergum fuscous, with huge 

 angular marginal white spots. Pronotum with vermiculate brown marks, nearly 

 obsolete on the posterior disc ; basal field of the scutellum with about two brown 

 spots and a few whitish marks. Elytra fulvous, coarsely and evenly inscribed 

 with fuscous; costa mostly white, alternated with brown spots, about the apical 

 four larger, commissural margin irregularly white; disc with about four paler 

 spots, one of which is on the claval suture. 



TK.\NS. AM. ENT. SOC. XIX. .^ PKIL, 189± 



