reineckei Van D. 



Posterior half of elytra subhyaline, without any definite banding; 



vertex more elongate and angular than in the others 



nubeculosus Stal 



Cyrpoptus belfragei STAL 

 (1869 Berl. Ent. Zeit, xiii, p. 240). 



Recorded from Ohio, N. C., Va., Fla., Mo. and Texas. 



This is the largest of our three species and is distin- 

 guished by the shorter, more obtuse vertex, and the short 

 longitudinal black vitta on the apical third of the elytra. 



Pale olive yellow, the vertex, thorax and scutellum somewhat ob- 

 scure, here and there infuscated. Vertex about equal in length to 

 the pronotum, very bluntly rounded in front with the hind margin 

 nearly straight across the middle, faintly sulcate along the longi- 

 tudinal median line. Frons transverse, faintly longitudinally striated, 

 sides sinuated, apex concavely arcuated, without carinae; pale dirty 

 yellowish, very finely speckled with scarlet. Apical two-thirds of 

 clypeus, the fore coxae and femora dark fuscous, palely speckled. 

 Antennae very short, subglobular and tuberculate. Ocelli yellowish 

 translucent. Pronotum truncate before, very ifeebly emarginate 

 behind, the median line bluntly carinate, and either side on disc is 

 a round dark impressed dot. Scutellum with only a faint indication 

 of a median carina, and marked with two dark impressed dots near 

 the margin before the apex. Elytra long, slightly narrowed and ob- 

 liquely truncate at apex, the apical angles rounded; largely opaque 

 and fuscous, tinged with ferrugineous, a large part of the basal half 

 washed with scarlet; the costal area near the apex paler and sub- 

 hyaline and another pale subhyaline area on inner margin at apex 

 of the clavus; a short dark fuscous vitta or cloud runs from the outer 

 apical angle through the middle of the corium; veins reddish fer- 

 rugineous. Wings vitreous, scarlet at base, infuscated at apex, the 

 veins mostly black. Dorsum of abdomen scarlet, the venter and legs 

 mottled with black. 



Male genital styles or plates long and subrectangular, the outer 

 angle of the apex well rounded, hirsute. 



Length of body 8-9 mm.; length to tip of elytra 13-14 mm.; ely- 

 tral expansion 26-28 mm. 



Redescribed from several specimens taken by D. W. 

 Grimes sweeping in tall grass near Pascagoula, Miss., Aug. 

 20, 1919. A male collected by J. S. Hine at Vinton, Ohio, 

 June 5, 1900, has in addition a very small narrow oblique 

 hyaline stripe near the outer angle of the apex but is un- 

 doubtedly this species. 



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