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median, broad, transverse bands anteriorly. Legs and antennae light 

 yellowish brown. Some nymphs of this stage have head light brown, 

 thorax light, yellowish brown medially, dark, transverse, more or less 

 broken bands extending across most of abdominal segments. Ven- 

 tral surface yellowish brown except at margins of thorax. Rostrum 

 extending to third pair of legs. 



Fifth Nymphal Stage. — Length 2.3 mm. Body oval, narrowing 

 anteriorly, broadest at apical third of wing pads. Head triangular, 

 eyes lateral, granular, more pronounced than in preceding stage. Tip 

 of each granule is black giving a mottled appearance. Prothorax 

 broadest at posterior end, sides margined, straight. Mesothorax 

 slightly longer than prothorax and covering metathorax save at 

 center. Wing pads extending posteriorly half the length of the 

 abdomen. 



Color. — Head yellowish brown, with a median and lateral, longi- 

 tudinal dark lines. Median line broadening transversely at base. 

 Prothorax marked with dark bands at lateral and anterior margins 

 and bands parallel to them. Wing pads mottled with darker markings 

 at center and anteriorly. Abdominal segments darkened transversely. 

 Entire dorsal surface light yellowish brown. Legs and antennae yel- 

 lowish. Ventral surface yellowish white except at sides of thorax, 

 which are reddish. Rostrum extending to between first and second 

 pair of legs, apical two thirds whitish, tip black. 



Adult. — In O. M. Reuter's paper, " Bemerkungen iiber Nearctische 

 Capsiden nebst Beschreibung neuer Arten," published in Acta So- 

 cietas Scientiarum Fennicae, Tom. XXXVI, No. 2, p. 48, there ap- 

 pears the following description of Tropidosteptes amoenus Rent. : 

 " Oblongo-ovalis, colore variabilis, glaber, sat nitidus, superne, capite 

 excepto, sat crebre et sat f ortiter punctatus ; rostro pedibusque lividis, 

 extremo apice rostri articulique tertii tarsorum nigro, capite basi pro- 

 noti 3/7 angustiore, ab antico viso distincte transverso (J*) vel lati- 

 tudine postica parum vel paullulum breviore, genis oculo paullo magis 

 quam dimidio {^) vel paullo (J) humilioribus, vertice postice tenuis- 

 sime (J*) vel tenuiter (J) marginato, oculo ?eque lato (J*) vel hoc 

 circiter 2/3 duplo latiore (5), medio plerumque impressione longi- 

 tudinali instructo; rostro medium vel fere apicem coxarum inter- 

 mediarum attingente; antennis gracilibus, articulo primo capite ab 

 antico viso paullo minus quam 1/3 breviore, secundo primo magis 



