spot on tip of scutellum, a yellowish-white broad band crosses the 

 front and extends upon the sides of the chest. Viewed from above, 

 the head forms a blunt triangle, has the side edges turned up, and a 

 grooved median line bounded each side by keeled edges; antennae pale 

 fulvous; pronotum with a median carina; scutellum with three cari- 

 nae, the lateral ones short and a little arcuated; venter blackish. 

 Elytra opaque, irrorate with minute pale points; dilated towards the 

 tip so as to lap over the opposite; a pale yellow spot beyond the 

 middle of costa and one or two smaller ones nearer the tip. Wings 

 smoke-brown. Legs black. 



Length of body 7 mm.; length to tip of elytra 9 10.75 mm.; width 

 across the elytra 4.25 4.75 mm. 



Redescribed from three specimens, taken at Columbus, 

 Ohio, Sept. 1919, by Ruth Veth; Jefferson, Ohio, Sept. 1908; 

 Cleveland, Miss., June 12, 1916, by G. W. Howard; and 

 a female collected by Geo. G. Ainslie at Knoxville, Tenn., 

 Sept. 24, 1919. 



Epiptera variegata VAN DUZEE 

 (1908 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., lix, p. 479, Helicoptera) . 



Recorded from Ont, N. H., N. J., N. C. 



This has the shortest vertex of any of the species. Body grayish 

 varied with pale fuscous brown, beneath testaceous varied with pale 

 brown; disc of the ventral segments sometimes fuscous. Ver- 

 tex very short, about the length of the eye in its greatest superior 

 diameter, regularly rounded before, disc pale with a longitudinal fur- 

 row, edge reflexed, darker. Front narrow, contracted basally, the 

 sides almost sinuated, distinctly tricarinate and with the clypeus pale 

 brownish shading to darker basally and along the carinae, more or 

 less distinctly irrorated with pale; clypeal suture strongly angulated. 

 Pronotum short and deeply emarginate, the produced anterior margin 

 rounded between the eyes, lateral carinae broadly rounded outwardly, 

 median carina feeble, upper surface of the pronotum brown or fer- 

 ruginous brown, closely irrorated with pale, below the carinate edge 

 deep black, bordered with white. Scutellum brown or ferruginous, 

 irrorated with pale, becoming darker before 'the pale apex and marked 

 with a darker line without the base of the lateral; carinae close to 

 the basal angles. These carinae feeble, especially the median which 

 is almost obsolete. Elytra brown, varied with gray patches, most 

 conspicuous is one along the base of the inner claval area, about four 

 very irregular and indefinite ones along the median line of the corium 

 and another adjoining the blackish apex of the clavus; the dark 

 areas irrorate with pale in places and the nervures more or less 

 irrorated, those at the apex pale; about three fuscous points in the 

 costal area, and three others approximate in the apical field. Wings 



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