each side of the pale apex. Hemelytra soiled with pale brown, the 

 veins few, very prominent, pale interrupted with brown, the spots 

 more conspicuous on the costa, exterior ulnar twice forked, the inner 

 ulnar forked, all of these divarications bounding long, narrow areas, 

 three rows of slender cross-veins before the apex, the apical series 

 has four small areoles, those of the middle quadrangular. Wings a 

 little dusky. Underside pale straw yellow, irregular spotted and 

 marked with dull brown; metasternum deeply excavated and acutely 

 margined each side. Legs moderate, much darkened with brownish 

 clouds and specks. 



Length to tip of hemelytra 6 6 1-2 mm, to end of abdomen 5 

 5 1-2 mm. Width of pronotum 2 mm. Length of cephalic process 

 1 3-4 mm." 



There is no authentic record of this species in Mississippi. 



Scolops parvulus METCALF 

 (1923 Jr. Elisha Mitchell Soc., 38, p. 175). 



This species has been recently described from a pair 

 collected at Southern Pines, No. Car., June 14, 1918. As 

 the writer has not seen these, the original description is 

 given here. 



"This species may be recognized by its small size and by the stout 

 gradually tapering cephalic process. 



Disk of the vertex broad, well rounded, being much broader than 

 in any other species known to me; cephalic process broad, stout, 

 intermediate between the process of sulcipes and grossus; general 

 form broad and oval, wing veins sharp and distinct. 



Color: General color fuscous, with the eyes, lateral areas of the 

 pronotum, tips of the wings, the tibiae and the tarsi, blackish. 



Length, eyes to tip of the abdomen 3.50 mm.; cephalic process 

 2.40 mm." 



Scolops (mgustaius UHLER 

 (1876 Bui. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv., i, p. 350). 



A very widely distributed species over the United States. 

 The original description is quoted here. 



"More slender than sulcipes, hesperius, and grossus; the hemelytra 

 almost flat above, hardly gibbous on the sides; head more or less 

 orange-yellow, with the face, sides of protuberance, and ridges of 

 the front brownish; cephalic horn very short and narrow, but blunt 

 at tip; cranium with two black, impressed dots between the eyes; 

 rostrum reaching to the end of the fourth ventral segment, yellow, 

 black at tip, the lobes behind the eyes with a small black dot. Pro- 

 notum with an arcuated series of indented black points, the lateral 

 margins obliquely curved toward the head; pale, grooved, and brown 

 behind the eyes, and with the carinate edge whitish. Mesonotum 



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