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obscurely irroratcil on the base of the front and dypeus leaving a paler 

 intermediate bantl, indicated on the marginal cariiue by two brownish 

 spots. Vertex almost square, feebly angled anteriorly, projecting 

 about half its length before the eyes, the lateral fova? marked wdth a 

 dark point. Pronotum shorter than the vertex, rather sharply angled 

 and marked with a blackish line beneath the eye. Mesonotum pale, 

 (|uite strongly maculated with brown in the female, with pale carinae 

 and a black jioint jiosteriorly placed in a pale annulus within the 

 lateral cariiur. I^lytra whitish tinged with smoky especially toward 

 their tips; the nervures white, the areoles with numerous imperfect 

 transverse white veinlets; on the costa are a few larger brown spots. 

 Beneath pale, the abdomen fuscous with the segments edged with pale. 



Described from a series of both sexes taken at Niagara Falls, Ham- 

 burg and Gow^anda, New York, and one female taken on basswood at 

 Ottawa. Ont., by Mr. W. Metcalfe. This is our most abundant northern 

 species of Catonia. It varies some in the extent of maculation on the 

 vertex, pronotum and mesonotum. but the pair of ocellated points near 

 the tip of the scutellimi seems to be a j)crsistent character. 

 Catonia pumila n. sp. 



Allied to griseo, but much smaller and wanting the ocellated points 

 before the apex of the scutelluni. Length 4 nun. 



Vertex longer and iiai'rower than in grisen, projecting for more than 

 half its length before the eyes, subangularly roimded before. Front 

 proportionate!}' a little broader and sliorter than in grisea; carinae dis- 

 tinct, but the marginal not as strongly elevated as in its ally. Color 

 yellowish testaceous tinged Avith fulvous on the vertex and scutellum 

 and with the carince slightly paler. Pronotum pale obscurely dotted 

 with brown; front nearly immaculate, the marginal carinse obscurely 

 dotted ; eyes and antermal setie black. Elytra obscure brownish hya- 

 line becoming fulvous along the costa; a whitish transverse band is 

 indicated before the apex of the clavus, and the apex of the corium and 

 some vague areas along the costa are paler; apical nervure margined 

 within by a fuscous vitta which is broken by the pale veins; all the 

 nervures more or less distinctly dotted with pale. As in the allied 

 species the wings are smoky hyaline with strong fuscous nervures. 

 Anterior and intermediate tibiic banded. 



Described from one pair taken by me at Milan, Ohio, September 1, 

 1005, and another male which I took in August, 1904, at Jamaica, Long 

 Island. This latter has the edges of the ventral segments touched with 

 sanguineous. This is a neat little species recognizable by its small size 

 and unmarked front. 



