188 Eighteenth Report State Entomologist of Minnesota — 1920 



Pale yellowish to rich brownish, becoming blackish on corium and clavus, 

 head marked with black, calli lined with piceous ; pubescence moderate, not 

 conspicuously hairy, dorsum with long hairs only at anterior angles of prono- 

 tum; erect hairs on antennae scarcely greater than twice the thickness of seg- 

 ment II. 



$. Length 6.7 mm. Head: width 1.17 mm., vertex .57 mm., length .83 

 mm.; carina very feeble, front moderately convex, smooth and shining; yel- 

 lowish and marked with brown and black, front each side of median line, bor- 

 dering inner margin of eye and projecting toward the median line on vertex, 

 geminate mark on basal half of tylus with median spot at base, dorsal half of 

 lorae and a spot at base of genae, brownish to black. Rostrum, length 2.28 

 mm., scarcely attaining the posterior margins of middle coxae, yellowish, be- 

 coming blackish at apex. 



Antennae: segment I, length .54 mm., slightly infuscated beneath, clothed 

 with pale hairs, the longest of which are little greater than the thickness of 

 the segment; II, 1.65 mm., slender, slightly but gradually thickened from base 

 (.057 mm.) to apex (.095 mm.), apical one-fourth infuscated, clothed with 

 several erect pale hairs, the longest of which are little greater than twice 

 thickness of segment; III, .63 mm., infuscated, fine erect hairs equal to twice 

 the thickness of the segment; IV, .51 mm., infuscated. 



Pronotuni: length 1.34 mm., width at base 2.45 mm., anterior angles 1.14 

 mm., collar .88 mm. ; disk deeply and irregularly but not densely punctate, mod- 

 erately convex, lateral margins distinctly sulcate, slenderly carinate, more dis- 

 tinctly so on the basal half ; anterior margin and angles clothed with fine pale 

 hairs, the discal area very finely pubescent ; calli convex, smooth and shining, 

 confluent, pale between and just before, delimited behind by a heavy black 

 line which is recurved at the outer margin, anterior inner angles broadly black, 

 an irregular disconnected line running through the middle and curving to- 

 ward a heavy black spot at the anterior angles of disk ; disk yellowish to rich 

 brown, becoming blackish on the sub-basal margin, narrow basal margin and 

 the median line distinctly pale ; propleura yellowish to brownish, the coxal mar- 

 gin anterior to the coxal cleft very prominent, distinctly flaring; xyphus pale, 

 pubescent, a distinctive black spot at each anterior angle just before the coxa. 

 Scufelluiii impunctate, shining, convex, finely pubescent ; pale, black each side 

 of the median line atid becoming brown at base, mesoscutum brown. Sternum 

 and pleura yellowish. 



Hemelytra: width 3.1 mm.; coarse!}' and deeply punctate, shining, finely 

 pale pubescent ; pale, punctures of clavus and corium black, the dark color 

 spreading to connect with adjacent punctures, apex of corium and a large irreg- 

 ular spot at middle blackish ; embolium prominent, pale, invaded by blackish 

 at apex, from base to apex slightly arcuated. Cunens pale, black across the 

 inner basal margin, narrow apex blackish. Membrane fumate, slightly darker 

 on the apical half, paler near tip of cuneus, veins brownish. 



Legs : pale to yellowish, not unusually hairy, longest hairs on femora scarcely 

 equal to the thickness of that member, length of hairs on tibia scarcely greater 

 than thickness of tibia; hind femora with an indistinct brown mark on anterior 

 face just beyond middle, a faint indication of a second mark nearer the apices; 

 tibiae becoming brownish at apices, the hind pair with an indistinct brown 

 band at middle; tips of tarsi fuscous. 



