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smaller, nearly cinereus in color and has much finer. irrorations 

 on the elytra. Specimens are at hand only from Texas, 

 Arizona and California, indicating a southwestern distribution; 

 ■majestus is much larger, fulvous red with coppery reflections, 

 being the largest and most highly colored species of the genus. 

 It closely mimics Oypona scarlatina in size and appearance, and 

 occurs in similar situations. Specimens have bsen collected at 

 Ames, and one specimen received from Philadelphia and another 

 from Mississippi. None have been received from the known 

 habitat of spatulatus and it would seem to be an eastern form 

 although its scarcity in collections may be due to the fact that 

 it is extremely difficult to catch. 



PHLEPSIUS DECORUS N. SP. 

 (Plate xxvi, Fig. 7.) 



Form very broad and short; elytra flaring; color milk-white, 

 sparsely irrorated with deep fuscous or black giving it a dark, 

 maculate appearance with scarcely a trace of fulvous. Length, 

 6 mm; width, on center of costa, 2.50 to 3 mm. 



Head narrower than the pronotum; vertex flat, similar to mftjestus, 

 twice wider than long, slightly longer on middle than next eye, acutely 

 angled with the front; front broad, flat, sides straight, twice wider above 

 than at apex, about one-third longer than wide, basal suture well marked; 

 gense broad, outer angle distinct; pronotum short, about half longer than 

 the vertex; lateral margin oblique, carinate, two-thirds the length of the 

 vertex, posterior angle well marked: elytra short, scarcely twice longer 

 than wide, veins on clavus nearly touching iu the middle, united by a 

 short cross nervure, central apical cell half longer than wide. 



Color: Vertex pearly white with numerous fuscous irrorations which 

 merge into an irregular transverse band between the eyes; face creamy 

 white, irrorate with fuscous, the arcs nearly obliterated; clypeus fuscous 

 on suture, two slightly divergent lines on disk; pronotum yellowish with 

 fine fuscous irrorations, two crescentiform dashes near the anterior margin, 

 black; scutellum soiled yellowish, two fuscous spots on the disk; elytra 

 milk-white, nervures black, claval suture and margins of the nervures 

 yellowish brown, irrorations fuscous to black, more or less definitely 

 arranged in three transverse bands and a series of spots on the costal 

 margin toward the apex; scutellar and sutural margins broadly white. 



Genitalia: Ultimate ventral segment of female very broad and short, 

 over four times wider than long, nearly truncate behind with a broad deep 

 notch, extending half way to the base. Male: valve small triangular; 

 plates broad, short and convex, scarcely half longer than ultimate segment, 

 parallel margined at base, bluntly angularly pointed. 



Described from one male from Lincoln, Neb. (Bruner), and 

 one female collected at Ames, Iowa. 



This and the preceding species belong to the section of the 

 genus in which the head is narrower than the pronotum and which 



