like raised, weakly notched in the middle. Elytra with distinct longi- 

 tudinal veins, which are united with each other by means of irregularly 

 branched veins. The entire body and legs black, shining with a brassy 

 luster. 



Length of body (female) 3.50 mm., width 2 mm. 



Bruchomorpho bimaculata, new species 



The female is very closely allied to B. jocosa and re- 

 sembles Aphelonema obscura somewhat in general appear- 

 ance. The male is testaceous-yellow with a conspicuous 

 black longitudinal although somewhat oblique band on each 

 elytron. Resembles most closely B. bicolor Metcalf. 



Vertex very short, only about a fourth as long as the pronotum 

 at its median length, hexagonal. Frons longer than broad, somewhat 

 hexagonal, with three carinae, the outer ones bent semicircularly, the 

 space between these nearly twice as long as its middle width; two 

 rows of pustules outside of the lateral carinae; the clypeus rounding 

 back under the head, at its base black, very prominently and strongly 

 keeled in the middle. Antennae rather short, basal segment extremely 

 so. Front margin of the pronotum rounded in the form of a semi- 

 circle, the hind margin slightly emarginate, with a strong median 

 carina, and most of the surface coarsely pustulated. Scutellum less than 

 twice the length of the pronotum, tricarinate, the lateral carinae 

 curved inwards towards the apex; outside of these covered with coarse 

 pustules. Elytra short, truncate, somewhat coriaceous and rather 

 shiny, the nervures distinct. Abdominal segments on dorsum with 

 a single row of -small obscure pustules on each side of each segment 

 and with no definite dorsal median keel. 



Color of the male is a testaceous-yellow, the base of the clypeus 

 and a broad longitudinal band on outer margin of each elytron, pi- 

 ceous; the eyes and tarsal claws, fuscous. The female has the frons 

 projected slightly more in front than in the male and the color ranges 

 from testaceous-yellow to fulvous-brown, without markings. 



Length of male, 2-2.50 mm.; of female, 2.50-2.75 mm. 



Described from a large series of thirteen brachypterous 

 males taken by the writer while sweeping coarse grasses in 

 cut-over and open pine land and on the floor of typical 

 black-jack oak woods during 1921 at the following localities 

 in Mississippi: Baxterville, July 27; Poplarville, July 28; 

 Biloxi, July 29; Gulf port, Aug. 1; Hattiesburg, Aug. 10; 

 Ellisville, Aug. 11; Meridian, Aug. 15; and Crawford, Aug. 

 17. A series of twelve females was taken in association 

 with the males at most of the above localities. Holotype 

 male from Ellisville, Miss., Aug. 11, 1921, and allotype fe- 



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