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with prominent inner angles; pygofers moderately broad, exceeded by ovi- 

 positor, spiny apically. Male, valve broad, triangular, slightly longer than 

 last ventral segment, obtuse apically ; plates large and very broad basally, 

 margins convex to about the apical third, tips parallel-margined and di- 

 vergent, submarginal spines and marginal hairs not reaching the apex; 

 pygofers completely hidden by the plates. 



Distribution: Our only specimen of this species is from 

 Lincoln county. 



Hosts: Taken on grasses. 



Phlepsius fulvidorsum (Fh.). 



Jassus fulvidorsum Fh., Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 62, 1851. 

 Phlepsius fulvidorsum Van D., Psyche, v, p. 390, 1890. 

 Phlepsius fulvidorsum Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xix, p. 74, 1892. 

 Phlepsius fulvidorsum Osb., Proc. la. Acad. Sci., i, pt. 2, p. 126, 1892. 

 Phlepgius fulvidorsum Osb., 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 532, 1905. 

 Phlepsius fulvidorsum Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 142, 1915. 

 Phlepsius fulvidorsum DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 72, 1916. 

 Phlepsius fulvidorsum Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 673, 1917. 



Form: Females robust, males more slender. Length, 6 to 7 mm. 

 Head as wide as pronotum; vertex two and one-half times as broad as 

 long, one-half longer on middle than next the eye, with basal and pre- 

 apical transverse depressions, the margin acute. Pronotum over twice 

 as wide as long, lateral margins short, posterior margin emarginate. 

 Elytra moderately long and fairly broad. 



Color: Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum yellow, elytra darker. Ver- 

 tex irrorate with light brown, frequently with five or six darker mar- 

 ginal spots. Pronotum irrorate with brown, disc darker. Scutellum 

 pale, with two dark marginal spots. Elytra ivory-white to fulvous, 

 coarsely and darkly irrorate. Face yellowish, heavily irrorate with dark 

 brown. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment half longer than 

 preceding, narrowed posteriorly, lateral angles not prominent, posterior 

 margin sinuate on either side of the produced median half which is 

 medially notched ; pygofers semi-robust, barely exceeded by ovipositor, 

 distal half somewhat spiny. Male, valve large, broad and triangular, 

 obtusely angled apically; plates large and broad, completely hiding the 

 pygofers, over twice as long as valve, margins strongly spined and con- 

 vexly narrowed to the blunt apices. 



Distribution: Taken in Pottawatomie county only. 



Hosts: Recorded by Van Duzee on hemlock, spruce and pine. 

 Professor Osborn gives birch, strawberry and blueberry as 

 hosts. De Long records it from grasses. 



Phlepsius nebulosus Van D. 



Phlepsius ntbulosus Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xix, p. 77, 1892. 

 Phlepsius nebulosus O. & B., Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., vii, p. 100, pi. 6, fie. 4, 1898. 

 pM-vnVw n'*>i>1o*iia Osb.. 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 532, 1905. 

 f Mbutontt Van D., Oat. Hemip. N. A., p. 674, 1917. 



