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Described from two females, one collected at Opelousas, La., 

 by Mr. G. R. Pilate, and one at Auburn, Ala., by myself. This 

 is the only known northern representative of a group of Phlep- 

 siids mostly confined to tropical and subtropical America. There 

 are a number of undescribed species of this group in Mexico and 

 Central and South America, all showing a strong resemblance. 



Phlepsius pusillus n. sp. ?.— Length 5 mm. Small, but robust. Head 

 slightly broader than thorax; vertex obtusely angulate, width between 

 eyes about two and one-third times its length, the length about one-half 

 that of pronotum; disc slightly depressed, nearly flat, anterior edge some- 

 what obtuse, not at all thin and acute ; front short, and very broad 

 throughout, two-sevenths longer than wide, two and one fourth times 

 longer than clypeus, broadly slightly bulging at antennal cavities; pro- 

 notum finely, sparsely punctured and obtusely wrinkled on posterior half, 

 hind margin nearly straight; width little more than two and one-fourth 

 times the length. Elytra short and broad, but little exceeding abdomen, 

 scarcely narrowed towards tips. Color pale fulvous. Face washed with 

 heavier fulvous, leaving numerous lighter dots ; vertex and pronotum 

 irregularly irrorate. Elytra white, with very few distinct supernumerary 

 veins; rather evenly, finely irrorate with brown, some darker dots along 

 commissural margin and apex of costa; dorsum and vicinity of notch on 

 last ventral segment blackish. Legs irregularly marked with dark ful- 

 vous. Last ventral segment large, twice length of preceding, nearly 

 truncate behind, with a large median notch. 



<$, — Like the female, except venter darker. Plate triangular, as long 

 as preceding segment ; valves once and a half the length of plate, sides 

 gently curved to an obtuse point. 



Described from two specimens in the Uhler collection, one 

 collected September 25 at Caton's Bush, two miles southeast of 

 Baltimore, Md. ; the other, September 20 at Odenton, sixteen 

 miles southeast of Baltimore. This is one of the smallest of the 

 more typical Phlepsiids. Ovatus has the head narrower than 

 the pronotum. Uhleri belongs to the group including strobi and 

 Eutettix seminuda. 



Phlepsius occidentalis n. sp. $. — Length 6 mm. Short and broad. 

 Head slightly broader than thorax; vertex obtusely angulate, length at 

 middle but little less than half width between eyes, or about two-thirds 

 of the length of the pronotum; disc depressed, anterior edge somewhat 

 compressed, but not thin and acute. Front broad above, narrowed rapidly 

 to clypeus, about one-fourteenth longer than wide, two and one-fifth times 

 as long as clypeus, sides slightly bent outward at antennal cavities; pro- 

 notum obscurely wrinkled and finely sparsely punctate posteriorly, hind 

 margin nearly straight; width two and a half times the length. Elytra 



