JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Jlf\a 39orh ^nl-oraoIogirHl JSoriptg. 



Vol. XXVI. JUNE, 1918. No. 2 



CONCERNING LYG^ID^.— NO. 2. 



By H. G. Barber, > i i^ 191' 



RosELLE Park, N. J. 



Kolenetrus new genus. 



Shining. Punctures set with fine incumbent hairs. Head lightly 

 transverse ; across eyes, which almost touch margin of pronotum, 

 wider than anterior margin of pronotum, subequal to anterior rounded 

 submargin ; coarsely and closely punctate. Antennae very shortly 

 pilose; first segment rather short, extended but little beyond apex of 

 tylus; second and third segments subequal. Pronotum a little longer 

 than wide, strongly constricted transversely just behind middle, lateral 

 margins gradually rounded back of eyes, the edge of this margin 

 obtuse, terete; both lobes closely punctate, the central disk of an- 

 terior lobe more sparsely so ; anterior margin straight, without an 

 impressed collar; posterior margin lightly concave; humeral area 

 nodosely elevated. Scutellum much longer than wide, posteriorly 

 obtusely carinate, punctate elsewhere. Clavus with three regular 

 rows of punctures. Corium rather closely punctate without the 

 median vein ; costal margin anteriorly lightly concave. Membrane 

 never entirely absent. Pleurre coarsely punctate. Posterior margin 

 of metasternum concave. Incrassate fore femur dissimilar in the 

 two sexes, male armed with a single stout post-median tooth, female 

 with two smaller teeth. Fore tibia straight. Hind tibia almost nude, 

 shortly pilose apically. Posterior tarsus with basal joint only a trifle 



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