marked with a triangular black spot at their lower angle. Antennae 

 testaceous, infuscated below. Vertex apparently wanting, the base of 

 the frons rounding over to the hind margin of the head, viewed from 

 above not surpassing the eyes; the frons slightly expanded at the apex. 

 Pronotum short, deeply but roundly emarginate behind; marked with 

 a black patch behind the eyes. Lateral angles of the scutellum in- 

 fuscated. Abdomen blackish, edged with white, the pleural pieces 

 with a fuscous spot superiorly. Elytra infuscated in each of the 

 areoles, the nervures strong, white at base, infuscated at apex. Wings 

 white, with slender, fuscous nervures. Legs white, the femora slightly 

 infuscated; tibiae banded with fuscous at base and apex; tarsi brown, 

 the posterior ones mostly white. 



Inner margin of the male plates with a linear excavation almost 

 to their apex, leaving only a blunt tooth before the oblique apical 

 margin; the upper angle of this apical margin produced in a short 

 triangular tooth in place of the long spur-like process in most of the 

 species of Cedusa. 



Length to tip of elytra 5 mm. 



Taken by Prof. Herbert Osborn along the coast of North 

 Carolina in hardwood forests on a species of small bush, 

 possibly a huckleberry. The writer collected specimens dur- 

 ing 1921 at the following localities in Mississippi, always 

 by sweeping and beating in low deciduous woods: Colum- 

 bus, June 23, Dozier and Drake ; Tupelo, July 2 ; and Fulton, 

 July 4. A specimen was collected at Knoxville, Tenn., in 

 1919 by Geo. G. Ainslie. 



THE GENUS CENCHREA WESTWOOD 



Members of this genus have the head very small, the 

 second antennal segment short, tuberculate with a seta, and 

 the elytra are broad at the middle, and narrowed behind the 

 middle. The reflector-like structure, called the antennal 

 trough by McAtee, that forms a guard for the highly sen- 

 sorial antennae, is an appendage of the pronotum in Cen- 

 chrea and of the head in Cedusa as pointed out by McAtee. 

 (Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., vol. 17, June, 1924). There are four 

 species of Cenchrea that occur in the United States, one of 

 which, fulva, is known only from Florida. Ball's species, 

 heidemanni, has recently had the new genus Neocenchrea 

 erected to contain it by Metcalf but it now seems advisable 

 to retain all under Cenchrea (see McAtee). So far heide- 

 manni has never been recorded from the Southern States. 



McAtee has briefly characterized the genus as follows: 



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