of lateral carinae. Elytra in brachypterous form scarcely longer than 

 the abdomen, flexed downwards, bluntly rounded at apex, the veins 

 coarse and granulate; dull fulvous in color, crossed by irregular 

 bands of brown ragged spots, the coarse vein of inner margin and 

 veins between the spots, pale fulvous or testaceous Wings hyaline, 

 the veins fuscous. Legs pale testaceous, the femora slightly em- 

 browned. 



Male pygofer very narrow and elongate, the ventral margin deeply 

 cut out, with a median strap-shaped tooth; genital styles slender at 

 base, curved inward semicircularly and then enlarged, continued 

 straight for a short distance and then flexed outward and downwards, 

 very much enlarged and especially hairy on the apical half, the tip 

 blunt; anal tube with ventral margin bluntly produced on each side. 



Length to tip of brachypterous elytra 3.25 mm. 



Redescribed from a single brachypterous male taken sweeping in 

 low shady spot or edge of deciduous woods, Prairie, Miss., June 11, 

 1921. 



THE GENUS COTYLECEPS UHLER 



The genus was erected in 1895 and therefore takes pre- 

 cedence over Fowler's Metabrixia. 



Briefly characterized as follows: Form of Bothriocerus excepting 

 in the shape of head. Vertex shorter than the eye, but projecting 

 nearly the full length in front of them, with the surface deeply 

 sunken and the sides correspondingly and acutely elevated, having the 

 line of contact with the front indented; the front long, deeply scooped 

 out, with the sides foliaceous, expanded and then tapering to the tip 

 of clypeus, and carina of the middle much lower than the sides, point 

 of juncture between the front and clypeus indented and occupied by 

 an ocellus, clypeus with a low, thick carina; cheeks broad, somewhat 

 foliaceous, excavated above the eyes. Pronotum very short, saddle- 

 shaped, deep-seated, and upturned in the middle, regularly wide on 

 the sides extending downwards. Mesonotum with the dorsal shield 

 long and narrow, carinate in the middle, with the lateral carinate 

 margins spreading apart posteriorly, with the scutellum large, tri- 

 angular, depressed in the middle. Elytra gradually and almost sym- 

 metrically widening towards the tip, tJie tip almost bluntly rounded, 

 with the inner arc a little narrower than the outer one; veins of the 

 middle apex straight, bounding long and narrow areoles, one on either 

 side of the four middle ones forked, those of the upper extremity 

 curved outwards; middle longitudinal nerve with two curved forks 

 near its tip. Elytra held nearly vertical. Abdomen somewhat pris- 

 matic, with the central ridge prominent; venter moderately wide and 

 not quite flat. 



Haplotype of the genus: Cotyleceps decorata Uhl. 



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