Color: General color pale dull yellow, a broad blackish fuscous 

 stripe on each side of the body extending from the apex of the nasal 

 process across the compound eyes, the disk of the wings and then con- 

 verging to the apex of the abdomen; meta-pleura black, a narrow 

 black stripe on the lateral ventral margins of the abdomen, spines and 

 claws of the legs black; genitalia black. 



Length of male, 2 mm.; of the female 3 mm." 



Bruchomorpho mormo KIRKALDY 

 (1907 Bui. Haw. S. P. A. Expt. Station, iv, p. 64) 



Described by Kirkaldy from specimens collected by 

 Koebele at Nogales, Arizona. 



The original description is quoted here. 



"Black, partly with a brassy gleam. Legs yellowish, coxae and 

 femora partly at least suffused with blackish. Vertex sublinear. 

 Frons not very long, not extending outwards farther than the abdo- 

 men, in profile. Head nearly one-half higher than its width at the 

 base between the eyes; sublateral keels of frons enclosing an oval, 

 curved but not sinuate laterally. Puncturation much as in B. oculata 

 Newm. (probably generic). Tegmina formed much as in the latter 

 species, or a trifle shorter, truncate apically, venation almost obsolete. 



Length (female) 3 mm. 



The coloring agrees with the laconic description of B. 

 nasuta STAL but the frons is apparently much shorter". 



THE GENUS APHELONEMA UHLER 



There are at present six members of the genus known 

 from North America, three of these definitely from the 

 Southern States. A. histrionica, rugosa and bivittata are 

 northern and western in distribution and probably do not 

 occur within our territory. Dr. E. D. Ball has recently 

 placed obscura Van Duzee, decorata Van Duzee and dorsata 

 Ball as varieties under simplex of Uhler and notes that 

 they all occur in damp, grassy meadows or along the edges 

 of swamps. 



Briefly characterized as follows: Resembling the preceding genus 

 but lacking the snout-like frontal process, the frons is nearly vertical 

 and there is a distinct clypeal suture. Vertex trapezoidal. Frons 

 broad, nearly hexagonal, the corners rounded, longer than median 

 width, weakly arched in the middle, a median carina and two semi- 

 circularly bent lateral carinae; sides of the frons rounded, bowed to 

 the narrow clypeus. Clypeus short, with a distinct median keel. 

 Antennae short. Pronotum short, broader than long, anterior margin 



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