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Female. — Color, yellowish brown ; superior tip and sometimes the apex of the 

 lace darker ; tip of the rostrum and claws black. Face coarsely and evenly punct- 

 ured, rugae distinct above, sutures of the front almost obsolete ; lorse prominent, 

 tumid, paler than the face ; clypeus narrow, convex, sides scarcely depressed beyond 

 the lor?e. Ventral plate broad and rather short, disk distinctly convex, apex with a 

 deep notch. All the pleural pecies with a central black spot, that of the mesopleura 

 much the largest. Pronotum pale yellowish brown ; a large dusky patch on the disk 

 almost reaching the anterior margin in the middle, with a curved extension on each 

 side along the hind edge nearly to the humeral angles ; rugse very distinct and ob- 

 lique over the entire surface ; posterior margin deeply arquated. Sculellum pale 

 brown, the basal angles and sometimes the apex with a dusky spot. Elytra uniform 

 pale brown, or slightly paler near the apex of the costa ; nervures pale, a small pale 

 spot on the base of the two inner ante-apical cells. Abdomen more or less tinged 

 with ferruginous, the posterior margin of the segments narrowly pale ; valves some- 

 times dusky. Wings smoky hyaline, nervures fuscous. Legs concolorous with the 

 abdomen, the tibiae darker. 



Male. — Blackish brown, elytral nervures scarcely paler ; black areas much ex- 

 tended, especially on the abdomen which may be entirely black, ^ with the margins of 

 the segments pale ; otherwise like the female. 



Many examples taken at Lancaster, N. Y. , July 9th, 1889, on low 

 bushes of Wild Plum. One 9) taken at Madison. Kan., by my brother, 

 M. C. Van Duzee, only differs from the eastern examples in the slightly 

 darker color and abbreviated elytra which reach only to the tip of the 

 abdomen. Superficially this resembles the trimaculata but differs from 

 it and from all our other species by the form of the clypeus and ventral 

 plate and by the conspicuous striation of the pronotum, approaching in 

 this respect the European species. 



5. Pediopsis trimaculata Fitch. Homop. N. Y. State Cab., p. 60, 1851. 



Dr. Fitch's description of this species is as fo'lows : 

 " Dull brown ; scutel with a black spot at each angle, the posterior one some- 

 " times obsolete ; elytra with pellucid white spots, situated, one on the apex, one on 

 " the disk, and a third anteriorly ; scutellar region obscure cinereous ; face whitish. 

 "Length, .18 inch. Mo. 7S5, 9." 



On the 4th of July, 1885, I took at Golden, N. Y. , a single female 

 of this species of which the following is a description : 



Form short and robust. Color soiled yellowish brown, face and scutel paler. 

 Apex of the clypeus and coxk, knees, tarsi, penultimate joint of the rostrum before, 

 margin of the mesosternum, and the venter pale yellowish. Facial rugse distinct ; 

 front rather coarsely punctured. Outer cheeks and pleural pecies black. Antennse 

 and spines of the posterior tibire pale. Valves dusky on the sides. Basal angles of 

 the scutel black. Elytra reaching the tip of the abdomen ; clavus deep brown ; 

 corium pale grayish white, a large patch near the middle scarcely reaching the claval 

 suture, and extending along the costa to the shoulder, and a transverse band before 

 the apex brown. Length, 51 mm. 



The elytra are of an unusually thick, almost coriaceous texture, with 

 the surface more distinctly wrinkled than in our other species ; possibly 

 they are variable in length as in insignis. This is probably a rare species. 



