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9 long, 3.9 to 4.4 mm.; lat., thorax 1.4 to 1.8 mm.; abdomen 2. to 
2.3 mm. 
Head.—Antenniferous tubercles absent or but slightly developed. 
Antennae short, shorter than head and thorax taken together; first 
segment reaching to or slightly surpassing apex of head. Head in- 
cluding eyes as broad as long. Eyes small and quite distant from the 
anterior angles of the prothorax, beyond which they extend, making 
head including eyes wider than the anterior part of pronotum. An- 
tennal joint 1 shortest; 2 and 4 subequal; 3 longer than 1 but shorter 
than either 2 or 4; 4 fusiform and thickest; all sparsely, shortly pilose. 
Rostrum reaching beyond middle coxae. 
Pronotum.—Variable in proportions, thickly punctured with large, 
coarse punctures and covered with long, erect hairs; anterior margin 
straight; posterior sinuate; humeral angles rounded, callous, prom- 
inent; sides sinuate. 
Scutellum, about as long as head, rather broad and rounded at the 
tip margined by a raised border rather darker than the surface; deeply 
punctured. Metapleurae projecting noticeably and acutely beyond the 
abdomen in a free point directed posteriorly. 
Abdomen wider than the prothorax; connexivum showing broadly 
beyond hemelytra, especially in the short-winged forms; hairy, espe- 
cially at the margin. 
Hemelytra in the winged form are slightly longer than the body but 
narrower than the abdomen. The short-winged are of varying de- 
grees of length, in some instances not reaching the 4th, in others, the 
6th abdominal segment, both corium and membrane being shortened in 
varying degrees, but neither wholly absent. Membrane hyaline; corium 
semi-transparent; nervures with dark markings. 
Legs; thighs dark, tibiae lighter in color. 
Described from 2 long-winged and 8 short-winged females 
and 1 long-winged and 3 short-winged males. Cotypes in my 
collection. 
In Hambleton’s Key* it runs to section 5, which includes 
forms with scutellum broad and rounded at the tip, the species 
being scutatus, tuberculatus and imdentatus, from all of which 
it may at once be separated by its smaller size and the absence 
of antenniferous tubercles. From C. parvicornis Sign. it is 
distinguished by the smaller scutellum, narrower prothorax, 
smaller head, thicker antennae, form of genital segments and 
absence of antenniferous tubercles. 
*Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. I, No. 1, p. 135 (1908). 
