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with brown. Elytra cinereous, heavily irrorate with dark brown, tips of 

 claval veins often white. Face yellowish, heavily irrorate with brown. 

 External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment twice the length of 

 the preceding, keeled, posterior margin obtusely produced with a broad 

 and deep median notch. Male, last ventral segment widened posteriorly; 

 valve large, very broad, triangular, obtusely pointed; plates large, broad 

 basally, spiny margins sinuately narrowing to broad rounded apices 

 which exceed the pygofers. 



Distribution: Taken in Pottawatomie county. 

 Hosts: Unknown. 



Phlepsius turpiculus Ball. 



Phlepsius turpiculus Ball, Can. Ent., xxxii, p. 200, 1900. 

 Phlepsius turpiculus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 671, 1917. 



Form: Rather large and robust. Length, 6 to 7 mm. Head as wide 

 as the pronotum; vertex slightly longer on middle than next the eye, 

 over three times as broad as long, obtusely rounding with front, ob- 

 tusely angled at apex. Pronotum with lateral margins shorter than the 

 humeral, posterior margin slightly emarginate, disc transversely wrinkled. 

 Elytra long, narrowing apically. 



Color: Dirty-yellow, irrorate with fulvous. Vertex, pronotum, and 

 scutellum yellowish, marked with dirty fulvous, margins of latter some- 

 times with two dark spots. Elytra whitish, heavily irrorate with light 

 or dark brown. Face yellowish, quite evenly irrorate with brown. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment twice as long as the 

 preceding, posterior margin slightly notched medially, either side of 

 which it is sinuate to the prominent lateral angles, pygofers semi-robust, 

 long, usually equalling or slightly exceeding the ovipositor, rather spiny 

 except on basal third. Male, last ventral segment wider than preceding; 

 valve large and broad, triangular, margins indented midway to the obtuse 

 apex; plates four times the length of the valve, slightly constricted 

 basally, then broadening before narrowing again to long finger-like 

 processes whose acute tips exceed the pygofers. A brown line, parallel 

 to the margin and ending in a brown basal spot, on the proximal half 

 of the plates. 



Distribution: This species occurs in western Kansas, speci- 

 mens having been taken in Thomas and Morton counties. 

 Hosts: Unknown. 



Phlepsius irroratus (Say). 



(PI. 14, figs. 1-2.) 



Jassux irroratus Say, Jl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, p. 308, 1831; Compl. Writ., li, 

 p. 384. 



Jassus testudinarius Burm., Genera Ins., i, pi. 14, 1838. 

 Jassug inornatus Pack., U. S. Ent. Comm., Bui. 7, p. 80, 1881. 

 AUijgus irroratu* Uhl., Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 245, 1884. 

 Phlepsiun irroratus Van D., Ent. Am., vi, p. 93, 1890. 

 Phlejixiux irroratus Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soo., xix, p. 71, 1892. 



