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more broadly developed, bases of genae and lorae, narrow tip of tylus and 

 Jower margin of bucculae, yellowish, eyes brown to blackish; genae longly pale 

 pubescent. Rostrum, length 1.48 mm., just reaching upon the intermediate coxae, 

 brownish to piceous, paler at the joints. 



Antcmiac : segment I, length .2i7 mm., black, shining, slightly pale at ex- 

 treme tip; II, 1.2 mm., cylindrical as in ncbulosus (.08 mm. thick), black, pale 

 pubescent ; III, .43 mm. ; IV, .48 mm. ; the last two segments black, pale pubes- 

 cent, a few hairs equal to twice the thickness of segment. 



Pronotii})! : length 1.08 mm., width at base 1.8 mm., anterior angles .83 mm.; 

 nearly as in ncbulosus, lateral carina and anterior angles more distinct, an- 

 terior margin distinctly sulcata at termination of anterior angles ; calli very 

 slightly convex, black, five to seven punctures on disk of each ; disk more or 

 less brownish, narrow basal margin, lateral carina, median line, just before 

 calli, more or less just posterior to outer angles of calli, pale to testaceous; 

 propleura brownish black, lower margin, anterior margin of xyphus and the 

 collar, pale to yellowish. Sciitclluuu punctate, brownish black, apex and lateral 

 margins basally ivory-white, the median line palely indicated. Sternum and 

 pleura black, basalar plate, posterior and ventral margins of epimera brownish ; 

 ostiolar peritreme white. 



Hcmclytra : width 2 mm., translucent yellowish brown, punctures black; 

 becoming dark brownish or piceous on disk of corium, tip of embolium, rather 

 broadly along claval commissure and narrow margin bordering scutellum. 

 Cuncus bright red, sometimes brownish at apex and narrowly testaceous at base. 

 Membrane pale, veins infuscated, infuscation invading the membrane slightly at 

 posterior margin of areoles ; distal one-third occupied by a rather distinct oval- 

 shaped pale fuscous spot, the infuscation usually not attaining the margin. 



Legs : reddish brown to piceous or black, trochanters and apices of coxae 

 testaceous; apices of femora pale, usually with an indistinct annulus just before 

 apex; tibiae pale or yellowish, knees, narrow band just below and sometimes 

 connected dorsally with spot on knee, a broader band just short of middle, 

 band at apex altho in paler specimens nearly obsolete, dark brownish to piceous, 

 bands on anterior tibiae less distinct ; tarsi testaceous, becoming blackish at 

 apex ; pubescence, spines, and claws similar to ncbulosus; in the reddish or 

 pale specimens the piceous coloration may appear in spots on anterior face of 

 femora. 



Venter: dark reddish to piceous or black, shining, finely pale pubescent; 

 genital claspers (PI. X) distinctive of the species. 



9. Length 4.9 mm., width 2.4 mm. ; very similar to the male but slightly 

 more robust; segment II, length 1.2 mm., just equal to length of the pronotum, 

 slender as in the female of ncbulosus, slightly enlarged toward apex, piceous, 

 the middle one-third yellowish or brownish. 



Plcsiotypcs: $ May 21, Orange, Conn. (A. B. Champlain) ; ? 

 Jinie 6, Brown's Ferry, Savannah river, South Carolina (H. H. 

 Knight); author's collection. Specimens examined: CONNECTI- 

 CUT,—? May 15, Portland (B. H. Walden), on Pinus strobus. 5 May 

 15, New Haven (A. B. Champlain). DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 

 — $ April 21, 9 July 10, 1885 ; 9 June 20, 1888. ? June 20, 1893, 9 July 

 20, Washington ( O. Heidemann). 9 May 20, (D. C. demons). 



