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Elytra long, distinctly narrowed apically, slightly flaring, appendix pres- 

 ent. 



Color: Yellowish or yellow-fulvous; vertex and pronotum yellowish, 

 irrorate with brown, scutellum lighter, with traces of two yellow lines. 

 Elytra yellowish, nearly evenly inscribed with brown, white lobate sutural 

 line not distinct. Face yellowish, irrorate with brown and marked with 

 darker arcs. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment very characteristic, 

 over twice longer than preceding, strongly narrowed posteriorly and with 

 a very large median incision reaching nearly to base, making the seg- 

 ment appear almost like two widely-separated lateral lobes; pygofers 

 very broad, slightly exceeded by ovipositor, distal half bristly. Male, 

 last ventral segment slightly longer than preceding ; valve small, narrow, 

 posteriorly rounded; plates very broad, short, inner margins contiguous, 

 outer margins broadly rounding, together describing a semicircle, slightly 

 exceeded by the bristly pygofers, and with a row of spines, well in, but 

 parallel to outer margin. 



Distribution: Found throughout the state as shown by the 

 following map : 



Hosts: De Long records sweeping this species from pas- 

 ture and grass land. 



Phlepsius excultiis (Uhl.). 



Jasau* excultu Uhl., Bui. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iii, p. 467, 1877. 

 Phlepsiu* excvltu* Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xix, p. 80, 1892. 

 Phtfpriiu xcultug Osb., 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 534, 1905. 

 PMepsius xcultus DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 77, 1916. 

 PMtptius xcultvs Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 667, 1917. 

 Fhlepgius xevltus Ball, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., xi, p. 387, 1918. 

 PMepniut xcultut Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 97, 1919. 

 (JtutMs inftimatug and scalaria Uhl., MS.) in collections. 



Form: Semi-slender species. Length, 6 to 7 mm. Head slightly 

 narrower than pronotum; vertex less than twice as wide as long, half 

 longer on middle than next the eye, disc sloping, broadly rounded with 



