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longer than the valve, together nearly semicircular, their margins spiny; 

 pygofers exceeding the plates, light apically. 



Internal male genitalia: Styles with long, parallel -margined process 

 to connective, a large quadrangular lateral process at about the middle, 

 a distinct notch on the inner margin at the base of the finger-like, granu- 

 lar, terminal process; connective, with sides close together for a short 

 distance at the base, then spreading and running parallel to tip where 

 they fuse and join the long oedagus which narrows to the acute, bifurcated 

 apex, the points close together at the tips, a circular excision between 

 them basally. 



Distribution: Common in eastern portion of the state as 

 shown by the following map : 



Hosts: Feeds on several different grasses, especially those in 

 low places. 



Euscelis obtutus (Van D.). 



Atnysanus obtutus Van D., Can. Ent., xxiv, p. 115, 1892. 



Athysanus obtutus O. & B., Proc. la. Acad. Sci., iv, p. 222, pi. 21, fig. 2, 1897. 



Athysanus obtutus O. & B., Ohio Nat., ii, p. 252, 1902. 



Athysanus obtutus Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 108, p. 93, fig. 24, 1912. 



Phrynomorphus obtutus Barb., Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiii, p. 534, 1914. 



Athysanus obtutus -DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 63, 1916. 



Euscelis obtutus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 661, 1917. 



Euscelis obtutus Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 72, 1919. 



Form: Much like bicolor. Length, 3 to 3.5 mm. Vertex longer and 

 narrower than in bicolor, slightly longer than wide, conical apically. Pro 

 notum about as long as vertex, lateral margins very short, humeral mar- 

 gins long, posterior margin very slightly emarginate, disc transversely 

 wrinkled. Elytra rather narrow, apex rounding, not reaching tip of 

 ovipositor and much exceeding abdomen in male. 



Color: Vertex brownish, with a pair of large round black spots on 

 disc and usually a smaller pair behind them. Pronotum brownish, with a 



