the vertex to the tip of abdomen; this stripe is narrow at the apex of 

 the frons, gradually broadening behind to apex of the scutellum and 

 continuing almost evenly in width, slightly narrowing to the tip of 

 the abdomen. Elytra are wrinkled and leathery, venation not visible. 

 Legs, including coxae, bright yellow, the femora and tibiae with dark 

 longitudinal streaks, the tarsi dark. 



Macropterous : Elytra reaching beyond the abdomen, membranous, 

 transparent, faintly clouded with brown, especially on the base, the 

 venation brown; claval suture present, a forked vein on the same. 

 Wings shorter than the elytra, vitreous, with straight little-branched 

 longitudinal veins. Structure otherwise as in the brachypterous 

 form. 



Length of body 3 mm.; width 1.50 mm. 



Two males, a female, and several last instar nymphs 

 were taken by the writer while sweeping coarse grass in an 

 open low spot in the midst of a black-jack oak woods at 

 Okolona, Miss., June 28, 1921. The snout seems to be much 

 more produced and sharper in the male and the longitudinal 

 stripe is shorter also. 



Bruchomorpho suturalis MELICHAR 

 (1906 Abh. k. k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wiener, p. 24) 



Recorded from N. C., Fla., Colo, and Texas. 



In Prof. Osborn's collection there is a pair, collected by 

 Severin at Capa, So. Dak., Aug. 27, 1919. As Melichar 

 states in describing the species it may only prove to be 

 a variety of dorsata. 



Like dorsata but smaller and is distinguished in that the yellow 

 median stripe reaches from the apex of the vertex only onto the base 

 of the abdomen; the abdomen is shining black, and at the most there 

 are two small bright yellowish longitudinal streaks upon the anterior 

 part of the elytra, not covering the hind segments as a continua- 

 tion of the median stripe. The pectinate-raised carina beneath the 

 vertex is outwards weakly put down, almost straight. The femora in 

 the male are reddish-yellow, in the female a peach-brown; the tibiae 

 at their tips and the tarsi, dark brown. The other characters are as 

 in dorsata. 



Length of male 2.50 mm., of female 3 mm.; width, male 1.30 mm., 

 of female 3.50 mm. 



A single female of this species was taken while sweeping 

 grass at the edge of a gum swamp at Fruitland Park, Miss., 

 Aug. 17, 1920. 



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