hind edge more angularly emarginate and the humeral angles more 

 rounded; superior disc black with the slender hind edge and median 

 carina pale; sides pale slightly stained, the deflected portion black more 

 or less broadly bordered with pale; in sordidipennis entirely pale in 

 the specimens before me. Patagia black, fuscous in its ally. Meso- 

 notum black with its side compartments invaded with ferruginous 

 before, the small scutellum pale. Elytra almost hyaline, slightly 

 smoky at tip; nervures white dotted with concolorous bristle-bearing 

 pits; stigma whitish. Beneath whitish, a little suffused witlh flavous 

 on the venter. Apex of the genital segment oblique, armed with a 

 minute triangular ventral tooth; in sordidipennis this ventral tooth 

 is larger with the adjoining margin quite deeply excavated; styles 

 undulated at base as in sordidipennis but distally approximated to 

 their rounded apex. In sordidipennis most of the lower surface and 

 genital pieces are black. Length 5 mm. 



Described from two male examples taken at Hot Springs, North 

 Carolina, by Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson." 



Myndus lunatus VAN DUZEE 

 (1909 Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., ix, p. 189) 



Known only from Florida. 



The original description is quoted here. 



"Female : Pale straw-yellow or testaceous-yellow varied with white 

 and fuscous. Head rather longer than in most of our species. Vertex 

 long, whitish, and its margin strongly carinate, fulvous, slenderly 

 lined with fuscous. Front unusually broad, rapidly widening almost 

 to the straight deeply impressed clypeal suture, its thin expanded 

 sides broadly reflexed and rounded to the base of the clypeus; green- 

 ish-white in color and marked with a narrow transverse fulvous band 

 at base and a broader one at apex, the latter outlined above by a fus- 

 cous or black lunate vitta which may be much extended over the 

 fulvous area; clypeus pale green marked with fuscous or black on 

 either side at base. Pronotum narrow, subangularly emarginate be- 

 hind, marked with an angular black spot behind either eye and a 

 similar spot below the lateral margin. Eyes black superiorly. Ocelli 

 rufous. Scutellum varied with fuscous on either side, the disc pale 

 between the prominent straight carinae. Elytra varied with fuscous, 

 the most conspicuous marks being a large basal area containing a 

 whitish cloud, a vague vitta beyond the middle, and the apex; the 

 claval suture and one or two of the principal longitudinal nervures 

 lined with fuscous. In fully colored examples there is a fuscous or 

 black spot on the middle of the clavus at the junction of the nervures, 

 another on the costa opposite this, one on the base of the stigma, a 

 larger one behind a white mark on the tip of the clavus, a spot on 

 the transverse veinlet at base of the second apical areole, and a point 

 anterior to this. Nervures obsoletely punctate but not dotted. Body 



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