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the tip touches the elytra; male plates two and one-half times longer than 

 wide, inner margins straight, outer narrowing slightly to just before the 

 tip, where they are cut oft' obliquely, together forming a V-shaped trough, 

 inclined slightly upwards. 



Habitat: Specimens are at hand from Ontario, New Hamp- 

 shire, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, District of 

 Columbia, Maryland, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Missis- 

 sippi, Ohio, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado and 

 Texas. 



LEPYRONIA ANGULIFERA Uhlcr. 



Lepyronia anguUfera Uhler. List Hemip. West Miss. Riv., p. 348, 1876. 



Deep testaceous, with grayish-golden pubescence, the tips 

 of the elytra broadly grayish, subhyaline; margin of vertex 

 nearly straight, the tip produced; length 96mm., ,j5mm.; 

 width 2.5mm. 



Vertex sloping, disc convex, broader than long, about equaling the 

 pronotum, margins slightly carinate, straight or sinuate, the apex pro- 

 duced: tylus narrow, parallel margined, one-half the length of the vertex; 

 face moderately inflated, forming an acute angle with the vertex; pronotum 

 more than twice wider than long, the anterior margin gently curving, 

 back of which there is a series of depressions; lateral margins distinctly 

 oblique; elytra coriaceous, distinctly angulate along the claval suture, the 

 disc of the corium inflated, outer margin broadly rounding, apex round- 

 ingly angulate: width of apex of hind tibia one-third its length. 



Color: Testaceous, elytra beyond clavus grayish sub-hyaline, the 

 nervures darker, another light band across the middle, this latter often 

 reduced to two spots on the centers of the costal margins; whole upper sur- 

 face slightly grayish, irridescent from the pubescence. 



Genitalia: In the female, similar tcP If-angidaris, the ovipositor longer, 

 exserted: male plates broad and convex at base, rapidly narrowing one- 

 third their width, then nearly parallel margined to the rounding apex, 

 about twice longer than their middle width, convex, inner margins 

 attingent. 



Habitat: Specimens are at hand from Jacksonville, Cres- 

 cent City, Indian reservation, and Duval county, Florida, and 

 Uhler reports it from Maryland and New Jersey. 



The smaller size, narrower form and sloping, pointed 

 vertex, as well as the subhyaline apex of the elytra, readily 

 distinguish this species. 



LEPYRONIA GIBBOSA n. Sp. 



Large; light-grayish brown, broader and more inflated than 

 4-cingularis or even the European coleopterata; vertex long, 

 sloping, the margins concave; length 98-lOmm., J^6-7mm. ; 

 width 9 4-5mm., .j3.5-4mm. 



