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AA. Head as wide or wider than pronotum concluded. 



FF. Margin of vertex not black. 



G. Species dark or dirty brown. 



H. Species not over 5.5 mm. 



long. altus. 



HH. Species longer, 6 mm. or 



over. incisus. 



GG. Species fulvous-brown ; length, 6 



to 7 mm. turpiculus. 



EE. More slender species, elytra narrowed api- 

 cally. 



F. Species about 6 mm. long: female seg- 

 ment not produced at sides into dis- 

 tinct lobes. 



G. Female segment excavated, with 

 median tooth; male valve long, 

 apex rounded. irroratus 



GG. Female segment truncate, with- 

 out median tooth: male valva 

 short and truncated. 



truncatus. 



FF. Species smaller, less than 6 mm. long; 

 female segment produced at sides into 

 distinct lobes. lobatus 



DD. Vertex, pronotum and scutellum yellow, elytra 



dark brown. collitus. 



CC. General color cinereous, sparsely inscribed. 



cinereus. 



BB. Vertex longer, distinctly longer on middle than next the eye; 

 disc depressed, edge acute or subacute. 



C. Elytra closely dotted, not reticulated, with some of tho 



dots in irregular lines. punctiscriptus. 



CC. Elytra reticulated. 



D. Size medium, 6 to 7 mm. long. 



E. Head, pronotum and scutellum not distinctly 

 yellow, elvtra with two clearer transverse 

 bands indicated. aperttis. 



EE. Head, pronotum and scutellum pale yellow. 



elytra evenly inscribed. fulvidorsum. 

 DD. Size large, 7 mm. or over. 



E. Length, 8 to 8.5 mm.; elytra distinctly nar- 

 rowed apically, female segment not produced 

 medially. nebulosus 



EE. Length, 7 to 7.5 mm.; elytra scarcely nar- 

 rowed apically, female segment produced me- 

 dially, solidaginis. 



Phlepsius majestus 0. & B. 



Phlepsius majestus O. & B., Proc. la. Acad. Sci.. iv, p. 229, pi. 26, 6%. 6, 1897. 



Phlepsius majestus Osb., 20th Kept, N. Y. St. Ent., p. 533, 1905. 



Phlepsius majestus DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 76, 1916. 



Phlepsius majestus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 667, 1917. 



Phlepsius majestus Ball, Ann. Ent. Soe. Am., xi, p. 382, 1918. 



Phlepsius majestus Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 101, 1919. 



