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basal half. Faint traces of vittae on pronotum and scutellum ; the latter 

 with apex and point at middle of either side, white. Median impressed 

 transverse line, black. Elytra reddish brown with \'eins darker, super- 

 numerary costal veinlets and vermiculate markings brownish, heavier 

 at apex. Apex with a white band. Areoles few and distinct; two 

 along suture on posterior half of clavus, a row along anterior portion of 

 apical cells and posterior portion of anteapical cells, and one at anterior 

 end of first and second anteapical cells. Front and face uniform 

 reddish brown, often flecked with reddish, and infuscated at apex of 

 vertex, angular line long and very distinct, irregular, dark margin 

 above and below. Eyes red. 



Genitalia: Last ventral segment of female with wide sloping to 

 rather prominent angles, then slightly concavely rounded to produced 

 median tnuicated lobe. Whole segment dark bordered. Male valve 

 broad and roundingly produced to a distinctly angled apex twice as 

 long as preceding segment, which is concavely angled on posterior 

 margin. Plates broad at base, wider than valve, gradually narrowed 

 to sharp tips. 



Described from two females and one male from Battle 

 Point, Va., June 22, 1918, and a female from Parksley, Va., 

 June 21, 1918. Collected by the senior author. 



Platymetopius collaris n. sp. 



Plate XIII, Figs. 5, 6, 7. 



A blunt -headed pale species with pronotum and scutellum largely 

 black. Length, Female, 5 mm.; Male, 4.5 mm. 



Vertex nearly twice as long as width between the eyes. Posterior 

 angle of head flaring. Pronotum strongly arcuate anteriorly, truncate 

 posteriorly, obliquely cut to outer flaring angles. Elytra broadly 

 rounded at tip. Approximately ten supernumerary veinlets along 

 costal margin. 



Color: Vertex dull pale orange, elongated median spot at apex, 

 irregular spot at either side ivory white, between these and extending 

 posteriorly, irregular lines and washing of brown merging and fading 

 posteriorly. Median posterior spot white. Line behind eyes black. 

 Pronotum dull yellow, median two thirds black or dark brown, with 

 pale median line. Scutellum before transverse suture black or dull 

 brown, apex bright yellow. Elytra pale to buff, apical cells clouded 

 and with variable tiny vermiculate markings. Areoles few, white, two 

 in clavus, one at base of each apical cell, and at apex of each anteapical 

 cell. Supernumerary costal and apical veinlets, black or brown. 

 Frons pale shading to dull orange on the cheeks. Pale line extending 

 from tip of apex across eyes in well marked specimens. White "v" 

 below apex indistinct. Venter mottled with gray and brown; pale 

 orange on plates. 



