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This insect, while furnished with a considerable number of hairs 

 on upper surface, particularly of corium, has a more polished appearance 

 than usual in the genus. The smooth, shiny surface of head, thorax 

 and scutellum is especially noticeable. 



Head shining stramineous to reddish testaceous, herring bone pattern 

 faintly indicated. Antennae reddish testaceous, with following markings: 

 First joint with yellowish spots; second with narrow annulus at base 

 fuscous, one of equal width above it whitish, then about one-third of 

 length of joint of ground color, followed by another narrow whitish 

 annulus, the remainder (nearly half) of joint fusco-piceous ; third and 

 fourth joints tipped with fusco-piceous. 



The ground color of thorax varies from reddish testaceous to fusco- 

 piceous and the markings from stramineous to amber-yellow. The 

 pattern of markings is as follows: Front margin of thorax a patch 

 between discal spots, and one outside each of them, usually extending as 

 vittas toward posterior margin of thorax and narrow posterior margin 

 ■of thorax; on scutellum a narrow median and two broader submarginal 

 vittffi, sometimes broken into dots; on clavus a vitta each side of claval 

 vein; on corium narrow costal margin, vittse along costal cubital and 

 .brachial veins and one paralleling clavus, all usually more or less broken: 

 cuneus with an irregular patch and two longitudinal vittae. Membrane 

 vitreous to dusky, usually with more hyaline areas and vein in part 

 pale. 



Under surface with same colors as upper, a series of 3-5 dark and 

 3-4 light markings along sides of abdomen ; segments pale along posterior 

 margins ; a pale vitta underlined by a narrow dark one at top of lateral 

 aspect of pronotum. Legs with same colors, femora banded at middle 

 and sprinkled elsewhere with paler ; anterior two pairs of tibiae dark on 

 I basal third, pale elsewhere; posterior or tibiae with two dark and two 

 jDale bands ; tarsi fuscous apically. 



Brownsville, Texas, June 6, 1895, E. A. Schwarz, 1 9 . 



Brownsville, Texas, June 1, 1907, on cotton. R. A. Cush- 

 man, 19- 



San Antonio, Texas, April 18, 1908, W. D. Hunter & F. C. 

 Pratt, 2c^, 2 9. 



Sabinal, Texas, May 26, 1910, F. C. Pratt, 1 9 . 



Hondo, Texas, June 3, 1909, J. D. Mitchell, 1 9 . 



Neuces River, Zanalla Co., Texas, April 29, W. D. Hunter 

 and F. C. Pratt, 1 9 • 



Gregory, Texas, May 30, 1910, W. D. Pierce, 1 9 . 



Devil's River, Texas, May 5, 1907. On sumach, F. C. 

 Bishopp, 1 cf. 



L Kennedy, Texas, April 5, 1896. C. L. Marlatt, 1 9 . 

 I Another specimen from San Diego, Texas, April 25, E. A. 

 Schwarz in teneral condition, possibly is this species. All of 

 the above are in the National Museum collection. 



