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Platymetopius cuprescens n. sp. 



Form of a c u t u s , face entirely yellow, color more coppery, 

 elytral spots less numerous or indistinct. Length of female, 5 mm. 



Vertex long, acvite, about twice as long as width between eyes, 

 front long narrowed at apex, clypeus widening gradually from 

 basal fourth. Pronotum about two thirds as long as vertex, hind 

 border slightly emarginate, elytra flaring at tips, with a few hyaline 

 spots near apex and in costal border. 



Color. Vertex brownish with dark elytral area, a narrow wedge- 

 shaped apical line and two narrow spots on the disk of vertex. 

 Face entirely yellow, eyes brownish, pronotum coppery brown, a 

 faint median line and lateral border yellowish. Scutellum brown 

 with yellowish discal spots and two short parallel lines on apical 

 portion. Etytra coppery with rather faint dark ramose lines and 

 minute dots and reflexed veinlets fuscous, yellowish hyaline spots 

 on base of apical cells, apex of anteapical cells. Costal space 

 subhy aline, beneath yellowish with fuscous markings on abdominal 

 segments and dots on tibiae. 



Genitalia. Last ventral segment of female elongate, narrowed 

 and rounded at apex with another prominent carina on posterior 

 half, pygofers reaching nearly to tip of ovipositor. 



A single specimen collected by Mr E. P. Van Duzee at Phoenicia 

 N. Y. It resembles a c u t u s in size and shape, the hyaline 

 spots much less pronounced, lacks the brown borders of face and 

 has a distinctly carinate female ventral segment. From 1 a t u s 

 Baker which it resembles in genital segment, it differs in being 

 darker, more coppery, elytra more hyaline on costa, the profile 

 of head not so curved. 



Platymetopius frontalis Van Duzee 



Platymetopius frontalis Van Duzee. Can. Ent. 1890. 22:112; 



Southwick, Science. 1892. 19:318; Van Duzee, Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci. Bui. 



5, p. 198 

 Platymetopius albopunctatus Fitch. Ms Ashm. ; Smith. 



Cat. Ins. N. J. 1890. p. 445 



Specimens have been noted in the collections for Poughkeepsie, 

 Karner, New York city, Mosholu and Cold Spring Harbor. It 

 was recorded for Buffalo by Mr Van Duzee who says: "With 

 a c u t u s , but much less abundant. June to Sep. most fre- 

 quently on oak bushes." He reports it in 1904 from Phoenicia, 

 Kingston and Staten Island. 



Apparently much more abundant in recent .years. Plentiful 

 in 1904 on oaks. Probably a grass feeder but collecting on oaks 

 at maturity. 



