are taken abundantly by sweeping grass in the open and 

 cut-over pine lands and where the ground is particularly 

 damp. 



Both short-winged and longed-winged forms occur in 

 members of this genus, only adding to the difficulty in 

 correctly placing the species. 



Briefly characterized as follows: Head behind the eyes distinctly 

 calloused; the vertex very long and narrow, much produced, the 

 lateral margins slightly dilated and reflexed, the cephalic process 

 arched upwards. Frons long and narrow, tricarinate; clypeus long, 

 with a prominent median keel, and obliquely striated on the sides. 

 Pronotum produced in front between the eyes, the hind margin emargi- 

 nate, tricarinate. Scutellum distinctly tricarinate. Elytra either 

 brachypterous or macropterous, usually grayish with coarse nervures 

 interrupted with fuscous. In the brachypterous form the elytra are 

 usually long oval, barely longer than the abdomen, and rounded at 

 the tips. Posterior tibiae armed with five to eight thick spines. 



Type of the genus: Scolops sulcipes Say. 



Key to the species of Scolops 



1. Cross-veins of the elytra numerous; frontal process slender and 



acute sulcipes Say 



Cross-veins few and near the apex 2 



2. Cephalic process long, not acute; length from eyes to tip of 



elytra, 4 1-2 5 mm perdix Uhl. 



Cephalic process long, less acute; 6 1-2 7 mm spurcus Uhl. 



Cephalic process short and very slender; 7-8 mm...angustatus Uhl. 

 Cephalic process of medium thickness, not acute; 6 6 1-2 mm. 

 dessicatus Uhl. 



Scolops sulcipes SAY 



(1825 Jr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, p. 335; Compl. Writ, 

 ii, p. 254, Fulgora) . 



Widely distributed throughout the United States and 

 Canada. It may be recognized by its rather round and con- 

 vex general appearance, the numerous areoles behind the 

 middle of the corium, and the black spots along the inner 

 margins of the veins, instead of upon them. 



Body pale grayish-brown, the head yellowish-green. The cephalic 

 process long, slender and acute, bent upwards, two rather indistinct 

 black points between the eyes. Frons long and narrow, tricarinate, 

 pale. Pronotum produced in front, three rather straight longitudinal 

 carinae on disc, a small black dot on each side of the median carina; 

 somewhat infuscated behind the eyes on the anterior margin of the 

 sides. Scutellum tricarinate, two black dots between the carinae 

 nearer the posterior margin and one outside of lateral carinae on each 



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