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impossible to state the degree to which it may vary. Notliing is known 

 of its Ufe history. 



Technical description. — Uniform chestnut in color; pronotum low and gradually arcuate; 

 compressions not deep; posterior process short, straight, not reaching tips of tegmina; tegmina 

 hyaline, bases brown and punctate. 



Head sub triangular, convex, yellow or chestnut deeply punctured with brown, not 

 pubescent; base weakly sinuate; inferior margin of face forming with the clypeus a nearly 

 right angle; eyes prominent, greenish gray; ocelli small, pearly, about equidistant from each 

 other and from the eyes; clypeus deeply punctate with brown, pubescent, tip hairy. 



Pronotum densely punctate, not pubescent; humeral angles weak, rounded; metopidium 

 convex, median carina prominent; dorsal crest low, not greatly compressed, compressed spots 

 shallow; posterior process short, triangular, extending to bases of apical cells of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, bases light brown and punctate. Legs and undersurface of thorax 

 and abdomen flavous tinged with ferruginous, abdomen mostly flavous. 



Length 6.5 mm.; width 2.5 mm. 



48. Cyrtolohiis cinereus Emmons (Plate xxviii, 9) 



1854 Gargara cinereus Emm., N. Y. Agr. Kept. 5: 156. 



1893 Cyrtolobus cinereum Godg., Can. Ent. 25:172. 



1894 Atymna cinereum Godg., Cat. Memb. N. A., p. 436. 



1908 Cyrtolobus cinereus Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 91. 



1909 Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 92, 



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. 61, no. 1686. 



Rare. A small series in the Cornell Univ(n"sity collection, and a pair 

 taken by the author on July 3, 1914, are the only specimens known from 

 the locality. The host is probably oak, but nothing is known of the life 

 history of the species. 



Technical description. — Small greenish gray mottled with brown and banded with green; 

 pronotum low and regularly arcuate; metopidium convex; posterior process short but sharp; 

 tegmina wrinkled, hyaUne, apices brown. 



Head convex, pale grayish green sharply punctate with black, sparingly pubescent; base 

 nearly straight; eyes prominent, brown; ocelli large, reddish, prominent, slightly farther 

 from each other than from the eyes and situated slightly below an imaginary line extending 

 thru centers of eyes; clypeus flat, somewhat trilobed, a faint brown Une on each side, extending 

 below inferior margin of face. 



Pronotum green-gray tinged with reddish, closely punctate, not pubescent; dorsal crest 

 very low, median spot on margin pale; a transverse pale band bordered with brown extending 

 from anterior base of crest backward and downward to lateral margin of pronotum, a similar 

 band extending from base of posterior process downward and forward to almost meet the 

 anterior stripe and form a V with it; posterior process short, not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina wrinkled, hyaline, brown spot at base of each, another in middle, and a third 

 at tip; areas between hyaline. Legs and undersurface of body grayish flavous. 



Length 5.8 mm.; width 2.5 mm. 



49. Cyrtolobus fuscipennis Van Duzee (Plate xxviii, 10) 



1908 Cyrtolobus fuscipennis Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 91. 



1909 Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 92. 



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Ilcni., p. 61, no. 1687. 



