This stripe reaching only onto the base of the abdomen; length 

 2.50 mm., suturalis Melich. 



5. Vertex acutely angled and strongly produced, 6. 



Vertex bluntly angled and weakly produced, 7. 



6. Head process (snout) somewhat narrowed at the middle; femora 



blackish on the basal half; length 2.50-4 mm., oculata Newm. 



Head process not narrowed at the middle; legs bright yellowish; 

 length 3 mm., nasuta Stal 



7. Body not strongly arched, black with a yellowish longitudinal 

 stripe along the middle of the back from the front to the tip; 

 carinae of the frons distinct; legs bright yellow; length 3mm., 



pallidipes Stal 



Body not strongly arched, black and concolorous except the coxae 

 and femora which are partly at least suffused with blackish; 

 length 3 mm., mormo Kirk. 



Bruchomorpho oculata NEWMAN 

 (1838 Ent. Mag., v, p. 399) 



Widely distributed over most of Canada and the United 

 States and is our most common species. 



Head produced in a somewhat compressed process, which when 

 viewed from -above, appears acutely angled; the median keel is con- 

 tinuous and is raised up edge-like; the under surface of the process 

 is strongly and concavely grooved in profile, which enhances the 

 snout-like appearance; the lateral carinae fine and distinct; several 

 pustules at the base of the head in the neighborhood of the inner 

 margins of the eyes. Pronotum furnished with small pustules outside 

 of the lateral carinae. Elytra short, wrinkled like leather. Abdomen 

 short and arched. 



The entire body is black, shining with a metallic luster, a more or 

 less distinct, narrow, rusty-yellow median line reaching from the 

 tip of the process to the tip of the scutellum, frequently distinct only 

 on the frons. Clypeus and legs rusty-yellow or brown, the femora on 

 the outside a shining metallic black. 



The macropterous form is like the brachypterous except that the 

 hind margin of the pronotum is distinctly and angularly notched in 

 the middle; the elytra reaching beyond the abdomen are vitreous, 

 with peach-brown nervures. The wings somewhat shorter, tran- 

 parent, the venation brown. 



Length of body 2.50-4 mm. 



Redescribed from a large series in Prof. Osborn's col- 

 lection from Ohio and Iowa and a series taken by the writer 

 by sweeping grass in pine lands during 1921 at the following 

 localities in Mississippi : Port Gibson, July 22 ; Baxterville, 

 July 27; Biloxi, July 29; Ellisville, Aug. 11; and Meridian, 

 Aug. 21. 



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