transverse compartment on the apex of the head. Frons, clypeus and 

 scutellum black with the frontal carinae pale. Elytra of the female 

 transparent, with a conspicuous blackish vitta before the middle, 

 a fuscous spot on the stigmata and the nervures are conspicuously 

 dotted with black; the male elytra show but faint traces of the 

 transverse vitta. 



Male genital styles broad, about equalling the pygofers. 



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



There is no authentic Mississippi record for this species. 

 THE GENUS OECLEUS STAL 



The genus was erected by Stal in 1862; seminiger Stal 

 as the logotype. It is easily recognized by the very narrow 

 vertex, which is reduced to a mere slit between the eyes 

 and the 5-carinate scutellum. 



There are at present thirteen described species from 

 North America and only two of these, borealis and campes- 

 tris, are known from the eastern half of the United States. 

 Nothing is known of their life history but they are prob- 

 ably either feeders on pine or else grasses in pine woods. 



Oecleus borealis VAN DUZEE 

 (1912 Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, p. 495) 



Recorded from N. Y., N. J., D. C. and Florida. 



Fig. 18 Oecleus borealis Van Duzee, greatly enlarged. (Original). 



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