pygofers extending for more than half their length beyond the plates, 

 estimating from the ventral notch of the genital segments. Length 

 7 mm." 



The writer has for study a pair from Westfield, N. J., 

 July 16, 1904, a female from Wooster, Ohio, July 5, 1920, a 

 female from Forest Park, N. Y., June 14, 1902, and a 

 female from Fairfax, Iowa, June 24, 1899, H. Osborn; all 

 in the private collection of Prof. Herbert Osborn. 



Cixius stigmatus SAY 



(1825 Jr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, p. 336; Compl. Writ., 

 ii, p. 255, Plata) 



Recorded from Mo., Kans., and Colo. 



Body black. Vertex short, broad, triangular, subacute before, 

 median carina abbreviated. Frons black with the carinae pale. Pro- 

 notum short, dark fuscous, the margins and carinae slightly paler, 

 deeply emarginate behind. Scutellum large, distinctly tricarinate, 

 black. Elytra white, a common black band near the base, becoming 

 brown towards the suture, and a black stigma, which is margined 

 with white before; nervures white, regularly dotted with black, 

 setigerous. Tibiae fuscous. 



Male pygofer with the ventral margin deeply and broadly notched 

 out, with a short blunt median tooth; the sides are short and 

 rounded, and not oblique; genital styles slender at base, enlarged 

 about the middle and flexed outwards, the two styles converging and 

 touching along the middle. 



Length of body 4 mm.; length to tip of elytra 6.25 mm. 



Redescribed from two females taken by A. E. Miller 

 at Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1921, while sweeping in a low 

 meadow, a female from Ames, la., and another from San 

 Antonio, Texas, March 1, 1910, the latter swept by Prof. 

 Osborn from oats in an irrigated field, and a male taken 

 by the writer at Bay Pt., near Sandusky, Ohio, Oct. 6, 1921, 

 by sweeping grass and sedges in a low spot along the shore. 



Cixius misellus VAN DUZEE 



(1906 Check List Hemip., p. 79, n.n. for stigmatus VAN D. 



1906) 



Widely distributed over Canada and the United States. 

 This species was for many years misidentif ied as stigmatus 

 of Say but these two are distinct according to Van Duzee. 



Vertex triangular and acutely produced anteriorly, its apex very 

 nearly attaining the base of the frons, and almost bisecting the 



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