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long, obtusely angulated, or rounded apically; plates long, spiny margins 

 at first convex and then suddenly narrowed at proximal third, ^hen taper- 

 ing regularly to long attenuate and acute tips which exceed the spiny 

 pygofers, with a brown line, parallel to margin, on the proximal third. 



Distribution: Found in western Kansas, specimens having 

 been taken in Reno, Stafford, Thomas and Sherman counties. 

 Hosts: Unknown, 



Phlepsius areolatus Bak. 



Phltpsius areolatus Bak., Can. Ent.'? xxs, p. 30, 1898. 

 Phlepsius areolatus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 668, 1917. 



Form: A stout robust species. Length, 5.5 to 6.75 mm. Head nar- 

 rower than pronotum; vertex not quite twice as broad as long, rounded 

 apically, disc strongly depressed, the margin thin. Pronotum about twice 

 as long as the vertex, twice as broad as long, widest at lateral angles, 

 humeral margins a little longer than the lateral, posterior margin about 

 truncate, transversely WTinkled. El>i;ra moderately long, flaring at tips. 



Color: Cinereous, marked with dark brown; vertex yellowish with four 

 black spots along margin, the median pair larger and triangular, with 

 two small apical spots, and disc with two large brown patches. Prono- 

 tum irrorate with yellowish and brown, Scutellum yellowish or whitish, 

 marked with brown. Elytra milky-white, irrorate with dark brown, with 

 a strong areolate appearance. Face yello^^'ish irrorate with browTi. 



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

 preceding, lateral margins strongly narrowed on their distal half, hind 

 margin broadly emarginate and with a small median notch; pygofers 

 broad and short, exceeded by ovipositor, sparsely bristly. Male, last 

 ventral segment longer than preceding; valve very small, rounded pos- 

 teriorly; plates broad, together forming a triangle broader than long, 

 spiny margins narrowed evenly to the obtuse tips which exceed th ;, very 

 short, bristly pygofers. 



Distribution: Sherman, Pottawatomie and Douglas counties. 

 Hosts: Unknown, 



PJdepsius superbus Van D. 



Phlepsius superhus Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xis, p. 81, 1892. 

 Phlepsius superhus DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 77, 1916. 

 Phlepsius superbus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 668, 1917. 

 Phlepsius superbus Ball, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., xi, p. 383, 1918. 

 Phlepsius superbus Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 98, 1919. 



Form: A medium-sized, semirobust species. Length, 6.25 to 7 mm. 

 Head slightly narrow^er than pronotum. Vertex half longer on middle 

 than next the eye. twice as broad as long, obtusely but distinctly a.igu- 

 late. Pronotum twice as long as vertex, twice as wide as long, anterior 

 margin strongly convex, humeral margins longer than the lateral, pos- 

 terior margin clearly concave, transversely wrinkled. Scutellum large. 



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