80 E. p. VAN DUZKK. 



Texas. Described from two female examples received from Mr. 

 Uhler. This species may be readily distinguished from its allies by 

 its short oval form and peculiar markings, as well as by the genital 

 characters. Another somewhat larger species, agreeing with ovatus 

 in form, is represented in my collection by a single example in which 

 the abdomen is wanting, and consequently it cannot be characterized. 

 It was presented to me by Mr. W. J. Palmer, Jr., of this city, who 

 captured it in South Dacota. 



17. Fhlepsiu$« e.YCiiltiis Uhl. 



Jassns exciiltiis Ulil., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. iii, p. 467, 1877. 



Osate obloug, rather pointed before; elytra slightly widened and a little re- 

 curved at tip; ferruginous above; elytra iron-gray, with a trilobate white mark 

 along the commissure. Length about 7 mm. 



Head narrower than the pronotum ; vertex obtusely pointed, one-third longer 

 on the middle than next the eye, disc not depressed, passage to the front rounded ; 

 front about one-third longer than broad; clypeus rather long, widened either 

 way from near its base, length about twice the greatest breadth, basal suture 

 convex, apex concave; lorfe large; cheeks well angled opposite the base of the 

 clypeus. Pronotum prominently wrinkled on the posterior disc, pits large and 

 shallow, seggregated near the calloused anterior submargin. Elytral appendix 

 rather wide. 



Genital characters. — Male: Valve small and rounded; plates large, regularly 

 triangular, about three times the length of the valve, outer edges almost recti- 

 linear, submargin armed with numerous long stout spines, suture straight. Fe- 

 male: Last ventral segment (PI. I, fig. 17) short, broadly excavated on the apical 

 margin nearly or quite to its base, thus exposing the base of the ovipositor with 

 its overlapping plates, lateral angles either triangularly produced or more or less 

 truncated. Pygofers rather broad basally, armed with stout spreading spines 

 toward the apex, which is a little exceeded by the oviduct. 



Color: Vertex, pronotum and scutellum ferruginous yellow, in fully colored 

 examples obscurely irrorate with pale brown; vertex with a few irrorations either 

 side of the apex and a brown point on the hind edge near each eye ; front of the 

 pronotum with about four brown points, sometimes produced posteriorly as ver- 

 miculate lines; face brown, darker above, quite evenly irrorate with pale, but 

 generally exhibiting a few darker arcs on the front ; femoral brown bands broad, 

 irrorate, sometimes extended over the whole surfrce omitting the superior edge 

 and knee; venter brown, uniformly irrorate with pale. Elytra whitish testa- 

 ceous, sometimes tinged with fulvous, closely and evenly inscribed with brown, 

 producing an iron-gray api)earance, especially in the darker examples; commis- 

 sural margin broadly ivory-white, edged with blackish and trilobed by the in- 

 trusion of this black edge at the tips of the claval veins; costa alternated with 

 bi'own and white; apical areoles sometimes infuscated. 



Apparently a common species and widely distributed in the 

 Southern States. I have examined material from North Carolina, 

 Texas, Georgia and Arizona, and Mr. Uhler reports it from Texas, 

 Georgia, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, 



