fuscous with the segments edged with pale. The extent of the brown 

 maculation on the vertex, pro- and scutellum varied. 



Length of body 3.5 4 mm.; length to tip of elytra 6 7mm.; 

 width across the elytra 2 2.25 mm. 



The writer took a single specimen that agrees essentially 

 with the description of this species at an electric porch light 

 at Agricultural College, Miss., in 1920. There is one exam- 

 ple in the Osborn Collection from Medina, Ohio. 



Catonia cinctifrons FITCH 

 (1856 Trans. N. Y. St. Agr. Soc., xvi, p. 451, Cixius). 



Recorded from N. Y., N. J., Pa., Md., N. C. 



A somewhat similar appearance to nava but decidedly 

 smaller. Front with a median transverse band of ivory 

 white as in picta but more narrowed at the base and the 

 clypeus immaculate ivory white. A specimen in the Osborn 

 Collection is labeled Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Aug. 18, 

 1904. 



Pale, abdomen dark, front deep black with a band of ivory white, 

 elytra smoky-brown, banded with white. 



Body pale with abdomen dark. Vertex short, broader than long, 

 slightly advanced before the eyes, rounded before, pale with fuscous 

 markings; margins and middle carinate; front broad, decidedly 

 narrowed to base, deep black with a broad median transverse band 

 of ivory white; strongly carinate, the marginal carinae dotted with 

 white; clypeus conical and of the same color as the frontal band 

 though slightly creamy towards tip, immaculate. Pronotum very short, 

 whitish with obscure fuscous dots, tricarinate. Scutellum much longer 

 than the pronotum and vertex together, rectilinearly tricarinate, the 

 lateral carinae slightly divergent posteriorly; black, tawny yellow on 

 each side beyond the lateral carinae; carinae and basal margins be- 

 tween the lateral carinae pale. Elytra smoky-brown, their basal 

 edge, a partial oblique band crossing apical part of clavus, an area 

 near the base of the costa, and another about the middle whitish; 

 tips membranous, white, somewhat hyaline, with a brown band across 

 the transverse veinlets and the hind margins fuscous interrupted by 

 the white tips of the veins; preceding this brown band is another 

 of white; nervures dotted with black in places. Wings black, trans- 

 parent, subhyaline. Legs yellowish-white, two blackish bands on the 

 tibiae. 



Length of body 3 mm.; length to tip of elytra 4.25 mm.; width 

 across the elytra 1.5 mm. 



Oak and hickory have been recorded as food-plants. 



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