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External genitalia : Female, last ventral segment broad, slightly 

 keeled, posterior margin rounding and with a slight median notch; 

 sparsely spined pygofers broad and slightly exceeded by the ovipositor. 

 Male, last ventral segment distinctly and roundingly emarginate; valve 

 large, slightly wider than long, rounded posteriorly; plates, spiny-mar- 

 gined, broad at base, subacute apically, about as long medially as the 

 valve, somewhat exceeded by the spiny pygofers. 



Internal male genitalia: Styles larger than in preceding species, 

 broad at base, then of nearly uniform diameter to terminal finger-like 

 process which is relatively long and slender; connective in the form of 

 an arc with a slight median swelling on the inside and two small proc- 

 esses on the convex surface, between which arise two very long, slender 

 and curving processes, which in the specimen dissected did not encircle 

 the cedagus as in the two preceding species; cedagus much as in cinereus, 

 but apically broadened rather than tapering and with distinct apical 

 teeth dorsaily. 



Distribution: Our most abundant member of this genus, 

 though seemingly largely confined to the eastern portion of the 

 state, as shown by the following map : 



Hosts: Taken commonly on grasses and weeds. 

 Platymetopius scriptus Ball. 



Platymetopius scriptus Ball, Ent. News, xx, p. 165, 1909. 

 Platymetophis scriptios Van D., Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., iii, p. 228, 1910. 

 Platymetopius scriptus DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 42, 1916. 

 Platymetopius scriptus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 638, 1917. 



Form: Much like frontalis. Length, 3.5 to 4 mm. Vertex slightly 

 longer than basal width, disc slightly convex but with distinct median 

 longitudinal depression. Pronotum over twice as wide as long, anterior 

 margin quite convex, posterior slightly concave, humeral margins nearly 

 twice the length of the lateral. Elytra broad and rather short. 



