truncate before; hind margin angularly emarginate; median carina dis- 

 tinctly less prominent than the lateral ones. Scutellum but feebly con- 

 vex, carinae somewhat obsolete, except the median for a short space 

 anteriorly. Elytra narrow, the costa but feebly expanded, fuscous- 

 brown, very obscurely irrorated with pale posteriorly and with costa 

 somewhat paler; three black points near the apex as in most of 

 the allied species but none in the costal areole. Hind wings smoky 

 with fuscous nervures. Legs concolorous, brown. 



Length of body 6.5 mm.; length to tip of elytra 8 mm.; width 

 across the elytra 3 mm. 



Food plant unknown. 

 . The writer has not taken this species in Mississippi. 



Epiptera brittoni METCALF 

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



"This species may be recognized by its dark brown color, narrow 

 produced vertex which is transversely rounded before. 



Vertex elongate, narrow, the lateral margins a little arched and 

 the anterior margin broadly transversely rounded ; f rons narrow, the 

 lateral margins strongly elevated; clypeus strongly carinate; pronotum 

 obtusely produced between the eyes; mesonotal carinae nearly obsolete. 



Color: General color dark brown somewhat intermediate between 

 the black species like opaca and the brown species like variegata; 

 vertex, pro- and mesonotum irregularly marked with ochraceous 

 tawny; base of frons black; apex pale ochraceous buff; clypeus black, 

 the lighter band continued indefinitely across the genae, the narrow 

 ventral margin of the breast plates, pro- and mesopleura; the breast 

 plates deep dorsally; legs and abdomen dark brown, the segments 

 of the latter narrowly bordered with paler. 



Length, apex of head to apex of abdomen 6.50 7.00 mm.; tips of 

 wings 8.009.00 mm." 



Described by Metcalf from a male collected at Black 

 Mountain, N. C., Sept. 12, 1912, a female from West Point, 

 N. Y., Sept. 15, 1912 (W. T. Davis), and one male from 

 Portland, Conn., Aug. 15, 1913, collected by B. H. Walden. 



THE GENUS CATONIA UHLER 



This genus was founded by Dr. Uhler in 1895 (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., p. c.). Nineteen species are known from 

 the United States, eleven of which are recorded only from 

 California and Arizona. Eight species occur in the eastern 

 half of the United States, only five of which are known 

 from the Southern States. 



A single specimen of C. grisea Van D. is recorded as 



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