cous veins. Venter fuscous, irrorate with pale. Anterior femora 

 broadly foliaceous, the intermediate narrower; hind legs pale, irrorate 

 with fuscous. 



Length of body 7-8 mm. ; length to tip of elytra 10-13 mm. ; elytral 

 expansion 23-26 mm. 



Van Duzee found this species numerous at various lo- 

 calities in Florida. The writer took several specimens on 

 young pines along the shore at Pass Christian, Miss., Sept. 

 7, 1920, and others sweeping grass beneath pine trees on 

 Cat Island, seven miles off the Mississippi coast, out in the 

 Gulf of Mexico, Sept. 7, 1920 ; a female at Maxie, Aug. 19, 

 1920; a pair taken by sweeping coarse grass in black-jack 

 oak association near Hattiesburg, Miss., Aug. 10, 1921; 

 and a female at Meridian, Miss., Aug. 15, 1921. Numbers 

 of this species were taken Aug. 6, 1921, by C. J. Drake 

 and the writer while sweeping a pure stand of Panicum 

 repens on Lowry Island, which is in the middle of Pas- 

 cagoula River, at Pascagoula, Miss. 



Cyrpoptus nubeculosus STAL 

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



This species was described from Mexico but occurs 

 also in Texas. The vertex is more elongate and angular 

 than in the preceding two species. 



Head, thorax and scutellum pale fuscous, minutely spotted with 

 olive. Head moderately round, viewed from the side, flattened and 

 prominent anteriorly. Vertex slightly longer than in belfragei and 

 reineckei, at the middle slightly longer than the pronotum, the sides 

 much shorter. Frons, viewed from the side, transversely concave 

 anteriorly, sinuate on sides and rounding on anterior and posterior 

 margins; frons and clypeus pale yellowish, minutely flecked with 

 scarlet; the apical two-thirds of the clypeus, the anterior coxae and 

 femora black and palely speckled. Pronotum truncate in front, very 

 slightly emarginate behind, with an almost obsolete median longitud- 

 inal ridge, rather transversely wrinkled. Scutellum without carinae, 

 transversely wrinkled. Elytra back of the tip of clavus, gradually and 

 gently enlarged, roundly and obliquely truncate at apex; grayish 

 hyaline, somewhat opaque and ferrugineous and faintly varied with 

 fuscous before the middle; more distinctly hyaline beyond the apex 

 of clavus but without the more or less definite oblique banding of the 

 other species. Wings vitreous, infuscated at the apex, diluted saf- 

 fron towards the base, with the base itself black-fuscous, the veins 

 black. Dorsum of the abdomen blackish, nearly yellow at the apex. 

 Legs and venter pale olive yellow, spotted or mottled with black. 



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