Female.—Color, yellowish brown; superior tip and sometimes the apex of the 
face darker ; tip of the rostrum and claws black. Face coarsely and evenly punct- 
ured, rugz distinct above, sutures of the front almost obsolete ; lorze prominent, 
tumid, paler than the face ; clypeus narrow, convex, sides scarcely depressed beyond 
the lore. 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 ; ruge very distinct and ob- 
lique over the entire surface ; posterior margin deeply arquated. Scutellum 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 tibize 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 gth, 1889, on low 
bushes of Wild Plum, One Q, 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 ¢r?macula/a 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 follows : 
** 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. No. 785, 9.” 
On the 4th of July, 1885, I took at Colden, 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 coxze, knees, tarsi, penultimate joint of the rostrum before, 
margin of the mesosternum, and the venter pale yellowish. Facial ruge distinct ; 
front rather coarsely punctured. Outer cheeks and pleural pecies black. Antenne 
and spines of the posterior tibize 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, 54 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 zzszgnis. This is probably a rare species. 
