Oliarus slossoni VAN DUZEE 



(1912 Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, p. 494 n.n. for hyalinus 



Van D.) 



Recorded only from Florida but is probably the most 

 abundant species of Oliarus in Mississippi and does some 

 damage to alfalfa. 



Fig. 16 Adult Oliarus slossoni Van D., enlarged. (Original) 



The original description is quoted here. 



"Elytra hyaline, with fuscous nervures, stigma, basal band and 

 commissural nervure. 



Vertex long and narrow, about as in f rands canus ; blackish fuscous 

 with fulvous carinae and a whitish line either side next the inner 

 margin of the eye. Frons strongly widened below; dark castaneous 

 with pale carinae and a pale area on either side next the clypeal 

 margin. Clypeus blackish fuscous with pale carinae. Pronotum very 

 short, linear, acutely emarginate behind almost to the anterior mar- 

 gin; soiled yellowish clouded with fuscous at the sides and under 

 the eyes. Tegulae pale clouded on their discs. Scutellum dark 

 castaneous; intermediate carinae obsolete or very feebly indicated 

 anteriorly. Elytra long and narrow, clear hyaline with the nervures 

 brown, under a lens very obscurely and minutely punctate; marginal 

 and transverse nervures heavier; stigma long and narrow, fuscous, 

 darker inwardly and bounded by a whitish nervure anteriorly; base 

 marked by a transverse fuscous band across the apex of the scutellum 

 which scarcely attains the costal margin; claval suture pale; com- 

 missural nervure fuscous, heavier for a space on the middle, then 

 whitish to the apex of the clavus. Beneath blackish fuscous, paler 



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