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front, obtusely angled apically. Pronotum twice as wide as long, slightly 

 emarginate posteriorly, lateral margins as long as humeral, posterior 

 half of disc strongly wrinkled, pits distinct. Elytra long, not strongly 

 narrowed apically, appendix distinct. 



Color: Vertex, pronotum and scutellum pale to orange-yellow, irrorate 

 with light brown ; vertex with two brown spots on posterior margin near 

 the eyes, pronotum usually with four spots along anterior margin and 

 scutellum with two spots on anterior margin. Elytra light cinereous, 

 closely and evenly inscribed with dark brown and with the trilobate 

 sutural line ivory-white. Face fulvous-yellow, heavily irrorate with dark 

 brown. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment with lateral angles 

 triangularly or truncately produced, broadly incised medially nearly or 

 quite to base, exposing base of ovipositor with its overlapping plates; 

 pygofers broadest at the middle, exceeded by the ovipositor, spined dis- 

 tally. Male, last ventral segment longer than the preceding; valve broad 

 but short, rounded posteriorly; plates broad basally, triangular, sub- 

 marginally spined margins somewhat concavely narrowed to acute apicea 

 which exceed the spiny pygofers. 



Distribution: Reported by Van Duzee from Kansas. 

 Hosts: Unknown. 



Phlepsius decorus 0. & B. 



Phlepsius decorus O. & B., Proc. la. Acad. Sci., iv, p. 230, pi. 26, fig. 7, 1897. 

 Phlepsius decorus Osb., 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 533, 1905. 

 Phlepsius decorus Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 141, 1915. 

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

 Phlepsius decorus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 668, 1917. 

 PMepeius decorus Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 99, 1919. 



Form: Broader and shorter than excultus. Length, 5.5 to 6.25 mm. 

 Head slightly narrower than pronotum; vertex one-third longer on 

 middle than next the eye, nearly or quite twice as wide as long, disc flat, 

 rather acutely angled with the front, obtusely angled apically. Pronotum 

 short, about half longer than the vertex, usually more than twice as wide 

 as long, humeral margins distinctly longer than the lateral, posterior two- 

 thirds transversely wrinkled. Elytra short and wide, broadly flaring. 



Color: Usually dark brown. Vertex white, with a few broad marginal 

 markings and with brown irrorations forming a broad transverse band 

 between the eyes, and a pair of more or less definite dark spots near 

 posterior margin. Pronotum yellowish marked with brown, with two 

 crescentiform dashes near posterior margin and a black spot behind each 

 eye. Scutellum yellowish with two spots on disc and two on anterior 

 margin, fuscous. Elytra milky-white to nearly smoky, marked with dark 

 brown nervures and irrorations, scutellum and sutural margins usually 

 white, the latter with the three ivory-white lobate markings, usually 

 distinct. Face yellowish, strongly irrorate with brown. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment little longer than 

 preceding, lateral margins quite short, posterior margin truncate and 



