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with brown. Elytra cinereous, heavily irrorate with dark brown, tips of 

 claval veins often white. Face yellowish, heavily irrorate with brown. 

 External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment twice the length of 

 the preceding, keeled, posterior margin obtusely produced with a broad 

 and deep median notch. Male, last ventral segment widened posteriorly; 

 valve large, very broad, triangular, obtusely pointed; plates large, broad 

 basally, spiny margins sinuately narrowing to broad rounded apices 

 which exceed the pygofers. 



Distribution: Taken in Pottawatomie county. 

 Hosts: Unknown. 



Phlepsius turpiculus Ball. 



Phlepshis turpicuhts Ball, Can. Ent., xxxii, p. 200, 1900. 

 Phlepsivs turpicuhts Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 671, 1917. 



Form: Rather large and robust. Length, 6 to 7 mm. Head as wide 

 as the pronotum; vertex slightly longer on middle than next the eye, 

 over three times as broad as long, obtusely rounding with front, ob- 

 tusely angled at apex. Pronotum with lateral margins shorter than the 

 humeral, posterior margin slightly emarginate, disc transversely wrinkled. 

 Elytra long, narrowing apically. 



Color: Dirty-yellow, irrorate with fulvous. Vertex, pronotum, and 

 scutellum yellowish, marked with dirty fulvous, margins of latter some- 

 times with two dark spots. Elytra whitish, heavily irrorate with light 

 or dark brown. Face yellowish, quite evenly irrorate with brown. 



Exteryial genitalia: Female, last ventral segment twice as long as the 

 preceding, posterior mai-gin slightly notched medially, either side of 

 which it is sinuate to the prominent lateral angles, pygofers semi-robust, 

 long, usually equalling or slightly exceeding the ovipositor, rather spiny 

 except on basal third. Male, last ventral segment wider than preceding; 

 valve large and broad, triangular, margins indented midway to the obtuse 

 apex; plates four times the length of the valve, slightly constricted 

 basally, then broadening before narrowing again to long finger-like 

 processes whose acute tips exceed the pygofers. A brown line, parallel 

 to the margin and ending in a brown basal spot, on the proximal half 

 of the plates. 



Distribution: This species occurs in western Kansas, speci- 

 mens having been taken in Thomas and Morton counties. 

 Hosts: Unknown. 



Phlepsius irroratus (Say). 



(PI. 14, figs. 1-3.) 



Jassus irroratus Say. .11. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, p. 308, 1831; Compl. Writ., ii, 

 p. 384. 



Jassus testudinarius Burm., Genera Ins., i, pi. 14, 1838. 

 Jassus itwrnatus Pack., U. S. Ent. Comm., Bui. 7, p. 80, 1881. 

 Allygus irroratus Uhl., Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 245, 1884. 

 Phlepsius irroratus Van D., Ent. Am., vi, p. 93, 1890. 

 Phlepsius irroratus Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xix, p. 71, 1892. 



