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Three-spotted Pediopsis, *.P. trimaculatus. Dull brown; scutel 

 "with a black spot at each angle, the posterior one sometimea 

 obsolete; elytra with pellucid white spots situated one on the 

 apex, one on the disk and a third anteriorly, scutellar region 

 obscure cinerous; face whitish. Length, 0'18. No. 785, 

 female. 



ATHYSANUS. Burm. 



To this genus we refer those species which differ from Macropsis and 

 Pediopsis in having the ocelli between the vertex and the face, and 

 from Jassus in having the elytral suture straight. 



*^ Variable Athysanus, *A. variabilis. Sulphur-yellow; elytra 

 commonly with an oblique black vitta, their tips pellucid; 

 vertex, thorax and scutel often fulvous or black. Length, 0-20. 

 Abundant on birch trees, in June. No. 786, female. 

 Var. a. Dull yellowish-white throughout. No. 787. 



b. Bright sulphur-yellow throughout. No. 788. 



c. An oblique black stripe on each elytron. No. 789. 



d. Vertex, thorax and scutel tawny yellow. No. 790. 



e. Vertex and thorax tawny yellow, scutel black. 



No. 791. 



f. Vertex, thorax and scutel black. No. 792. 



^'Spruce-tree Athtsanus, *A. abietis. Black, shining; headlight 

 yellow, mouth and two bands on the vertex confluent at their 

 ends, black; middle of the sutural edge of the elytra with a 

 white streak. Length, 0-20. Taken on the black spruce. 

 No. 793, female. 



"Windowed Athysanus, *A. fenestratus. Brownish -black ; face 

 and scutel rufous; elytra each with a pellucid spot near the 

 apex, another on the disk, and a third opposite this last on 

 the sutural margin. Length, 0'20. On birch trees. No. 794, 

 female. 



" Smaller Athysanus, *A. minor. Cinnamon yellow; elytra with 

 a discoidal and large apical spot hyaline. Length, 01 8, 

 Common on birch trees. No. 795, female. 



