narrower than in the allied species, the three carinae distinct but 

 not sharp. Elytra in the brachypterous form truncated, reaching to 

 about the middle of the tergum, the nervures reticulated but not 

 conspicuous. Length 2% mm. 



Color luteous brown becoming darker fuscous-brown beneath and 

 on the pustulated portion of the face, pro- and mesonotum, and black 

 on the clypeus, sides of the face and venter; elytra, middle compart- 

 ment of the mesonotum and front distinctly paler, with a dusky cloud 

 on either side of the latter; apical one-half of the last ventral seg- 

 ment and slender margins of the basal segments paler. Tergum with 

 a double row of incomplete blackish ocellated marks on either side. 

 Legs pale, the femora obscurely lineated with fuscous, the tarsal claws 

 black. 



Described from two female examples at Tifton, Ga., Sept. 

 8, 1910, by Mr. J. C. Bradley. The macropterous form and 

 male are unknown to me. This inconspicuous little species 

 might be considered as a small dark variety of simplex 

 were it not for the narrower and distinctly oval front." 



Aphelonema simplex var. dorsata Ball 

 (1926 Canadian Entomologist, Iviii, p. 242) 



In this variety the straw-color of the head and pronotum 

 is continued as a broad dorsal stripe to the apex of the ab- 

 domen, this stripe often being mottled with milky white. 

 From the eye back to the apex of the abdomen on either side 

 runs a shining black stripe. Legs and below pale reddish, 

 the vertex often dark. 



Described by Dr. Ball from three females taken at San- 

 ford, Fla., from Feb. 17 to June 4, 1926, with the statement 

 that "this variety is intermediate in character between 

 simplex and dorsata and was taken with examples of the 

 latter". 



Aphelonema simplex var. decorata Van Duzee 

 (1908 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., lix, p. 492, Peltonotellus) 



Recorded only from Florida. 



Resembling simplex but with the elytra and abdomen 

 mostly piceous black. 



"Characters of the front, vertex, pro- and mesonotum almost 

 exactly as in simplex; the anterior edge of the pronotum is, however, 

 more regularly rounded instead of forming an indistinct angle at the 

 inner corner of the eyes; the mesonotum is shorter with its lateral 

 posterior margins much less oblique and the pectoral flap of the pro- 



