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occupying the entire disc of the front, dark brown or black. Pro- 

 pleura unmarked or with a pale spot in some males, the triangular piece 

 below marked in both sexes. Legs brownish, tibiae lined with fuscous. 

 Habitat, Ames and Fairfax, Iowa. Occurs on wild jjlum. Readily 

 distinguished by the spots on the face and the distinct nervures. 



Pedigpsis trimaculata Fitch. 



Pediopsis trimaculata Fitch. Homopt. N. Y., St. Cab., p. 60, 1851. 



Bythoscopns t7'imaculata Walk. Homop. B. M., IV., 1162, 1852. 



Pediopsis insignis \ . D. Review, Ent. Am., \'., 171, 1S89 ; Can. Ent., XXII, 

 p. 249, iSgo; Cat., p. 260; Harrington, Ottawa Nat., VI., p. 31, 1892; Osborn, 

 Proc. la. Acad. Sci., I., pt. II., p. 126, 1892. 



Dull yellowish brown, sometimes blackish brown in the male, with 

 three white spots in a row on each elytron, the anterior one sometimes 

 obsolete Length, ? 4. 25; cf, 4 ram; width, 1.50 mm. 



Pronotum obtusely angled before, rugae fine but distinct, disc 

 brownish, margins and rugae washed with yellowish green, scutellum 

 brown, coarsely maculate with olive, a dark spot within either basal 

 angle. Elytra dull brown in the female, dark brown in the male, 

 nervures pale, a pale spot at the apex within the third and fourth api- 

 cal cells, a longer one including the junction of the anteapical and 

 basal cells and a third and much smaller one midway from the base, 

 the latter sometimes obsolete. 



Face and all below yellowish or yellowish green in the female, 

 brown in the male, propleura marked in both sexes, obscured by the 

 broAvn color in the male. 



Habitat, Canada, New York, Michigan, Iowa, and Kansas. 



This is undoubtedly the species that Dr. Fitch had in hand, the 

 lighter colored females answering perfectly his short description. It 

 occurs on the wild plum with the preceding from which it may be 

 separated either as larva or adult by the absence of the black on the 

 face. Fresh specimens have a powdery appearance resembling the 

 bloom on the young stems of the plum. 



Pediopsis sordida V. D. 



Pediopsis sordida, V. D. jCan. Ent., XXVI, p. 89, 1894; Cat. p. 260; Gil- 

 lette & Baker, Hemip. Colo., p. 73, 1895. 



Rusty brown, very variable in depth. Elytra with rusty brown 



