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Form: Our largest Phlepsid, elongate. Length, 9 to 10 mm. Head 

 much narrower than pronotum; vertex distinctly produced, twice as 

 broad as long, front long and narrow. Pronotum over twice as broad as 

 long, broadest at lateral angles, anterior margin strongly convex, lateral 

 margins longer than humeral, posterior margin slightly emarginate. 

 Elytra long and narrow, greatly exceeding abdomen. 



Color: Reddish-brown; vertex yellowish, two apical and two basal 

 spots black, disc with a large black transverse band on each side, median 

 longitudinal line brown. Pronotum yellowish marked with brown or 

 black. Scutellum yellowish marked vdth brown on basal angles and api- 

 cally. Elytra pale yellow to milky-white marked with reddish-brown 

 irrorations. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment one-third longer 

 than preceding, posterior margin emarginate, with two distinct median 

 points between which is an incision extending fully half way to base; 

 pygofers broad and short, equalling ovipositor, spiny medially on distal 

 half. Male, last ventral segment truncate; valve scarcely twice as broad 

 as long, roundingly produced to very broad apex; plates long, spiny mar- 

 gins convexly rounding to blunt tips which exceed the short spiny pygo- 

 fers. 



Distribution: Taken in Douglas and Pottawatomie counties. 

 Hosts: De Long reports sweeping this species from weeds 

 in open woods. 



Phlepsius spatvlatus Van D. 



Phlepshis tipatulatvs Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xix, p. 78, 1892. 

 Phlejisius personatus Bak., Can. Ent., xxx, p. 30, 1898. 

 I' '/-psiiis spatvlatus Snow, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui., ii, p. 349, 1904. 

 imiepsius spatulatus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 667, 1917. 

 Phlepsius spatulatus Ball, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., xi, p. 384, 1918. 



Form: Smaller than majestus. Length, 7 to 9 mm. Head much nar- 

 rower than the pronotum; vertex one-fourth longer on middle than next 

 the eye, not quite twice as wide as long. Pronotum about twice as wide 

 as long, lateral and humeral margins about equal, posterior margin 

 slightly emarginate, transversely wrinkled. 



Color: Pale grayish or cinereous, sometimes fulvous-brown. Vertex 

 whitish, with broad transver.se brown band between eyes and usually with 

 brown spots before and behind this. Pronotum irrorate with brown and 

 yellow. Scutellum yellowish. Elytra cinereous, regularly inscribed with 

 brown, darker apically. Face pale or yellowish, marked with brown arcs. 

 ' External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment half longer than the 

 preceding, longest at the rounding lateral lobes between which it is 

 emarginate, with a pair of stout acute teeth in this emargination and be- 

 tween them an acute median notch; pygofers broad and short, slightly 

 exceeded by ovipositor, sparsely spined. Male, last ventral segment as 

 long as preceding, valve narrow, two to two and one-half times as wide as 



