side. Elytra with pale nervures, which are margined with black. Legs 

 long, carinated, the anterior and intermediate tibiae with a ring, 

 the tip and tarsi black; posterior tibiae with six or seven stout spines. 



Length from eye to apex of venter 5-6 mm.; to tip of elytra 6-7 

 mm; Length of cephalic process 2 1-4 mm. 



There are no authentic Mississippi records. 



Scolops perdix UHLER 

 (1900 Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., i, p. 405). 

 Recorded from Mass., N. Y., N. J., Md., D. C., N. C., Colo, 

 and Ariz. 



This is our smallest species of Scolops. 

 The original description is quoted here. 



"Pale straw yellow, or gray above, cephalic process moderately 

 long, slender, tapering, rounded at tip, deeply sulcated, with a very 

 convex knob on the middle of the vertex, the front with rows of 

 minute brownish dots. Pronotum short, the central tablet with two 

 very deep sunken black pits, the posterior side and the margins each 

 side deeply sinuated; the mesonotal tablet large, distinctly carinated. 

 with a black dot on each side posteriorly. Hemelytra narrow, with 

 very few veins, two forks of unequal length running back to the tip, 

 veins obsoletely and very sparingly flecked with brown, the apex 

 narrow, having four or five small apical areolets mostly caused by 

 forking of the veins, costal border often broadly white, very moder- 

 ately curved. Legs narrow, of medium length, but little marked with 

 brown, or obsoletely clouded. Meso- and metasternum whitish, the 

 latter deeply emarginate. Base of venter also whitish. Anterior 

 femora flattened, posterior tibiae with five stout, piceous spines. 

 Rostrum reaching almost to the apex of the venter, as usual black 

 at tip. 



Length from eyes to tip of abdomen 4 4 1-2 mm.; to apex of 

 hemelytra 4 1-2 5 mm. Width of pronotum 2 1-4 mm. Length of 

 process 1 3-4 mm." 



Taken very abundantly by the writer sweeping the 

 grassy floor of cut-over and open pine land in Mississippi 

 during July, 1921, at Tupelo, Ellisville, Poplarville, Lyman 

 and Biloxi. 



Scolops spurcus UHLER 

 (1900 Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., i, p. 403). 

 Recorded from N. J., Md., D. C., Mo. and Kansas. 

 The original description is quoted here. 



"Grayish straw color, marked with black, larger than either of 

 the other species, and with coarser veins than S. sulcipes; tinged 

 with greenish when fresh. Frontal process long, narrow, almost 

 parallel-sided, truncated at tip, vertex deeply excavated, the central 



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