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long, sometimes very long, thus also differing from comes. The connec- 

 tive is V-shaped. The oedagus is entirely different to that of comes. It 

 sends up a small dorsal process which has a small anteriorly directed por- 

 tion, while the terminal part is a large obtusely pointed and roughened 

 process, instead of being composed of two slender, curving, and acutely 

 pointed processes as in comes. Viewed dorsally, the oadagus consists of 

 a heavy portion terminating in three small lobes, the median one larger 

 than the outer, and a terminal, more slender portion. 



Distribution: Specimens of this species seem to have been 

 taken only in Douglas and Riley counties. It is undoubtedly 

 distributed over much of the eastern part of the state. 



Hosts: The specific host is unknown, all of our specimens 

 being taken when hibernating in leaves. 



Erythroneura scutetteris (Gill.). 



(PI. 17, fig. 7.) 



Typhlocyba comes var. scutelleris Gill., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., xx, p. 764, 1898. 

 Typhlocyba comes var. scutelleris Tuck., Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui., iv, p. 68, 1907. 

 Typhlocyba comes var. scutelleris DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, 'p. 108, 1916. 

 Erythroneura comes var. scutelleris Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 714, 1917. 



Form: Size and structure of comes. 



Color: Most of our specimens are yellowish except that the pos- 

 terior portion or most of the pronotum and all of the scutellum are 

 dark brown. Occasionally the head too is washed with brown. The 

 elytra are sometimes unmarked, and at times faintly marked with red 

 as in comes. The black spots near the middle of the costal margin and 

 just beyond the clavus are quite distinct and constant. 



External genitalia: As in comes except for the chitinous process 

 of the dorsal margin of the pygofers of the male. In this species the 

 process is as in maculata but instead of ending in two rather short and 

 widely separated teeth, it terminates in two long teeth which are close 

 together, the dorsal one being slightly but distinctly longer than the 

 ventral. 



Internal male genitalia: Practically as in maculata except that the 

 small dorsal process of the oedagus has two small but distinct lateral 

 processes. 



Distribution: Specimens are at hand from Douglas county. 

 It surely occurs in many more counties of the eastern part of 

 the state. 



Hosts: Its definite host is unknown. DeLong reports beat- 

 ing it from grape and honey locust. It is also very common 

 at lights. 



