Brownish-yellow in color, marked with black. Head produced into 

 a short, slightly downwards bent process of a snout-like appearance; 

 this process is enlarged at the tip into a smooth, polished knob; the 

 upper surface of the process with three longitudinal carinae, the 

 middle one of which becomes obliterated before the tip, the lateral 

 carinae curve outwards and are furnished at the outside towards the 

 base of the process with two longitudinal rows of dark pustules; in 

 the space between the eyes are found two somewhat oval black spots 

 and on the front, somewhat in the middle, are two black longitudinal 

 flecks; the upper surface of the process is of a pale yellow color. 

 Pronotum semicircular, with a median carina and numerous dark 

 pustules. Scutellum with three parallel longitudinal carinae, between 

 which are two dark longitudinal streaks, and furnished with dark 

 pustules on the sides of the lateral carinae. Elytra short, reticulated, 

 the cells filled with fuscous-brown, so that the yellowish network 

 appears distinct. Abdomen somewhat widened in the middle, grad- 

 ually narrowed to the tip; there is a fine black median longitudinal 

 line whose sides are furnished with impressed longitudinal points, 

 which take in almost the entire length of each segment, so that the 

 same appears as being longitudinally streaked; these streaks reach 

 nearly to the median line; the underside of the abdomen is yellowish. 

 Legs brownish-yellow, tibiae fuscous-brown, slightly widened towards 

 the tip, the basal furrow of the tibiae is very indistinct. 



Length to apex of abdomen, male 2.50 mm.; of female, 4 mm. 



Redescribed from eight adults and a number of nymphs 

 taken by the writer by sweeping coarse grass on the floor 

 of a black-jack oak and short-leaf pine forest near Hatties- 

 burg, Miss., Aug. 10, 1921, and a pair taken by C. J. Drake 

 at Gainesville, Fla., July 28, 1918. 



THE GENUS BRUCHOMORPHO NEWMAN 



The genus was established by Newman in 1838 and 

 strictly speaking is a North American genus although Meli- 

 char describes the species, globosa, as having been collected 

 in Mt. Coffee, Liberia by R. P. Currie. Thirteen species 

 occur in the United States, seven of which are known from 

 the Southern States. 



Briefly characterized as follows: Head broad, triangular, and 

 produced downwards. Vertex extremely narrow, set off from the 

 frons by means of a fine bow-shaped transverse border. Frons is 

 sharply bent forwards at an angle of about 45 degrees, so that because 

 of the triangular form the frontal surface, when viewed from above, 

 resembles a snout; witji three longitudinal carinae the outer ones 

 being curved outwards and converging at the apex of frons; a median 

 carina extends ridge-like on the upper surface of the head process. 



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