styles long, slender at the base, then enlarging slightly and touching 

 each other for most of their length, the apices roundingly pointed 

 and finely hirsute. 



Length of body 3 mm.; length to tip of elytra 4.5 5:00 mm.; width 

 1 mm. 



Fig. 15 Bothriocera bicornis Fabr., enlarged. (Original) 



Adults were very abundant on young oak (Quercus 

 marylandica) bushes at Longview, Miss., June 27, 1920. 

 A number were swept by the writer in a stand of Spartina 

 patens and Juncus sp. at Pascagoula, Miss., Aug. 6, 1921; 

 a female at Tupelo, Miss., July 2, 1921, and another at 

 Biloxi, Miss., July 29, 1921. 



According to Uhler the species lives on alder and other 

 bushes in wet places or near running water. 



THE GENUS OLIARUS STAL. 



This cosmopolitan genus was erected by Stal in 1862 and 

 contains a very large number of widely scattered species. 

 Thirteen of them occur in the United States and of these 

 only seven are known from the Southern States. 



Very closely related to Cixius and Monorachis, especially 

 in the head and pronotal characters. 



Briefly characterized as follows : Vertex longer or shorter than 

 the width between the eyes, usually longer, the lateral keels diverging 

 distinctly behind, subquadrate, and angularly notched behind; near 

 the anterior margin there is an angular broken transverse keel, 

 forming two irregular, 4-angled compartments. Frons and clypeus 

 together are broadest at about the middle and have a distinct median 

 carina which is minutely forked or thickened at the vertex, forming 

 a small triangle with the margin of the vertex as its base; a frontal 



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