prominent. Eyes brown. Elytra blackish-pruinose, lighter and more 

 smoky towards the apex. Wings light smoky in color. Legs pale. 



Last ventral segment of the female triangular, with its margins 

 almost rectilinear. 



Male plates have their inner margins divergent on their immediate 

 base, then somewhat sinuated to their apex which has an unusually 

 large pale tooth. 



Length of body 3 mm.; length to tip of elytra 4-5 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 9 mm. 



A male swept from weeds at Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 29, 

 1919, by W. B. Cartwright has been examined. 



Known food plants : Willow, thorn, beech, oak, hickory, 

 grape, alder, wild cherry, and skunk cabbage. 



Cedusa bedusa McATEE 

 (1924, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., 17, p. 182) 



Recorded from Virginia. 



This species is one of the forms long confused with 

 C. obscura by various workers. The latter species, as shown 

 by McAtee, is a western species, at present known only 

 definitely from Colorado. 



Dusky in general color, the head and pronotum distinctly paler. 

 Frons widest at a point about two-thirds its length from vertex, the 

 sides a little concave above that point, straight and gradually con- 

 vergent below. Ventral view of outer male clasper shows the lateral 

 lobe not quite so broad as in C. incisa and the apical hook is nearly 

 obsolete. 



Length 4.75 mm. 



Beaten from foliage by the writer at Gainesville, Florida, 

 in 1917. There is no definite record from Mississippi, al- 

 though undoubtedly occurring. 



Cedma edentula VAN DUZEE 

 (1902 Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., x, p. 503, Lamenia) 



Recorded from N. J., D. C., and N. Carolina. 



Distinctly fulvous in color and easily distinguished from the others. 

 Frons gradually widened almost to the apex. 

 Length 3.75 - 4.5 mm. 



A male was taken by the writer while beating in low 

 deciduous woods at Longview, Mississippi, June 27, 1920. 



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