knob large, highly polishd, face pale, flecked with brown, space 

 between the outer carina and the carinate margin narrower than in 

 S. sulcipes, and not abruptly contracted above, sulci remotely punc- 

 tuate, clypeus stained with brown, gradually widening below, rostrum 

 reaching to the posterior coxae. Pronotum short, lunate, with the 

 lateral margins gently curved, and the latero-posterior margin widely 

 sinuated, the callosities carrying three dark, or black, grains, central 

 tablet longer than wide with the two central indented points black, 

 the middle carina thick and piceous, mesonotum almost smooth, wider 

 than long, pale orange yellow, acute at tip, sinuated each side, the 

 femora and anterior tibiae carinated on the middle line, scabrous 

 and pointed with brown, the anterior and middle tibiae faintly, broadly 

 brown at base and tip, posterior tibiae pale, set with eight blackish 

 spines on the carinate edge, and with a crown of thick spines at tip, 

 apex of tarsi and nails piceous. Hemelytra pale gray, with a fuscous 

 arc near tip, veins coarse, whitish, interrupted with black, long, 

 nearly straight, without cross-veins before the apex, inner vein acutely 

 forked at the middle, the middle vein twice forked, tip with a trans- 

 verse series of six small, not uniform areoles; wings smoke blackish, 

 with three forked and one cross vein, posterior border with one small, 

 triangular areole. Tergum mostly smoke brown. Mesosternal plates 

 white, or greenish, dusky on the middle, a little sinuated behind, 

 metasternum narrow, whitish, blackish exteriorly, triangularly emarg- 

 inated each side and on the middle of the posterior margin, middle 

 line incised. Venter clouded with gray and fuscous. 



Length from eye to apex of venter 5 1-2 6 mm.; to tip of 

 hemelytra 6 1-2 7 mm. Length of cephalic process 2 mm." 



The writer took a series of both macropterous and 

 brachypterous individuals at Ocean Springs, Miss., July 

 24, 1920, and at Agr. College, Miss., that he identifies as 

 this species. 



Scolops dessicatus 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. 



"Dull pale smoky whitish, of nearly the same form as S. sulcipes, 

 but with the cephalic process a little thicker and nearly parallel- 

 sided, not tapering towards the tip, and the veins dotted with pale 

 fuscous. Front minutely flecked with brown, which becomes denser 

 and more conspicuous on the clypeus; rostrum reaching upon the 

 posterior coxae. Pronotum wide and short, the lateral margins 

 oblique, very gently curved, broadly whitish yellow, the posterior 

 margin deeply sinuated, having two large impressed points on the 

 middle of the shield, and the anterior margin of this shield bilobate; 

 mesonotum pale orange, almost flat, a little shaded with brown, desti- 

 tute of a carinate line on the middle, and with an indented point 



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