Length of body 8-8.25 mm.; length to tip of elytra 11-11.50 mm. 

 Taken very abundantly by the writer by sweeping coarse 

 grasses in low flat pine land, etc., during 1920 at the fol- 

 lowing places in Mississippi : Pascagoula, July 6 ; Helena, 

 July 13; Big Point, July 15; Lumberton, Aug. 26; Ship 

 Island, Sept. 6; Cat Island, Sept. 7. Taken at Greenville, 

 Sept. 15, by F. M. Hull. The writer has also taken this 

 species in South Carolina and Florida. 



Dictyophora dioxys WALKER 

 (1858 List Homop. in Br. Museum Suppl., p. 61). 



This species is chiefly neotropical but is recorded from 

 Maryland and Mississippi. It is well illustrated in the 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana and may be easily distin- 

 guished by the cross-veinlets of the elytra forming three 

 more or less regular bands. The vertex is scarcely twice 

 as long as wide and is intermediate in length between those 

 of microrhina and lingula. 



"Female. Green. Head testaceous; vertex not longer than broad, 

 with the head and the slightly elevated borders green. Protuberance 

 conical, quadrilateral, longer than the vertex, with an angular keel 

 on each side; underside with three keels, the lateral pair continued 

 along the front, which is long and linear; face lanceolate, with one 

 keel. Prothorax above short, with three keels, conical in front, acutely 

 angular on the hind border; a keel on each side. Meso thorax with 

 three parallel keels. Wings vitreous; veins black, green towards 

 the base. Fore wings with a green stigma, containing three veinlets; 

 transverse veinlets forming three nearly regular bands; veins forked 

 at the tips. Hind wings with -a few veinlets. Length of body 4 

 lines; of the wings, 10 lines. 



a. Mexico. From M. Salle's collection." 



Although this species is recorded from Mississippi and 

 the writer has collected throughout the state, he did not 

 find it. 



THE GENUS SCOLOPS SCHAUM 



This peculiar, distinctly North American genus was 

 erected by Schaum in 1850. It contains eighteen species 

 in addition to pungens of Germar, a species long lost and 

 unrecognized by modern hemipterists. Five species occur 

 in the Southern States and perhaps a sixth one, viridis. 



These are all grass-feeding forms and are well distri- 

 buted over most of the United States. In the South they 



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