smoky, darker toward their apex, the nervures fuscous. Legs pale 

 brown. 



Length 6 mm.; length to tip of elytra 8 10 mm.; width across 

 the elytra about 4 mm. 



There is no record of this insect in Mississippi. 



Epiptera pallida SAY = (VAN DUZEE'S septentrionalis) 



(1830 Jr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, p. 240; Compl. Writ., 

 ii, p. 374, Plata). 



Recorded from N. H., N. Y., N. J., Pa., D. C., Fla. It 

 is very close to septentrionalis but has the vertex longer. 



Body pale brownish-yellow above. Head, before the eyes, longer 

 than the longitudinal diameter of the eye; eyes oval; elevated line 

 of lower frons obsolete, excepting near the superior tip; superior 

 half of frons yellowish, inferior half dusky; each side before the eye 

 dusky, a yellowish band as a bounding line along the sides of the 

 pleurae, passing under the eye; antennae pale fulvous. Vertex con- 

 siderably longer than broad and is much longer than in opaca and 

 variegata, elliptically narrowed to the rounded apex, median line 

 grooved, scutellum with three carinae, the lateral ones short and a 

 little arcuated. Elytra very pale brown, nearly uniform or very 

 obsoletely variegated, dilated towards the tip so as to overlap the 

 opposite; a few remote, small, brown spots, about two on the disk 

 of the corium, three toward the apex, and three along the costal 

 region. Abdomen mostly fuscous. Legs fuscous. 



Length of body 7 mm.; length to tip of elytra 10 mm.; width 

 across the elytra about 4 mm. 



A single adult was taken by Dr. C. J. Drake at Agricul- 

 tural College, Miss., June, 1921, under pine bark. 



Epiptera floridae (WALKER) 

 (1851 List Homopt. in Br. Museum, ii, p. 326, Monopjsis). 



Recorded from R. L, N. J., Fla., Colo., (?) and Texas. 



One of the smallest species, uniform fuscous-brown, scarcely 

 variegate'd, head rather long with vertex almost acute, in these 

 respects closely allied to pallida. 



Head, before the eye, longer than the longitudinal diameter of 

 the eye; vertex strongly produced, considerably longer than its 

 basal width, in relative proportion about the same as in pallida, 

 elliptically narrowed to the rounded apex, median line grooved; frons 

 with sides strongly sinuated and the median line carinate, of a 

 uniform dark brown, vertex and carinate edges darker; clypeus 

 almost black; sides beneath with a broad percurrent whitish vitta 

 beginning on the cheeks before the antennae, bordered above with 

 blackish. Pronotum produced almost to the anterior line of the eyes, 



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