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nent. Thorax tumid, mesothorax rounded behind; metathorax straight, 

 form narrow, abdomen subparallel. Male, Morphotype, male, Fort Lee 

 district, N. J., Oct. 10, 1903. 



Apterous female : Differs from the male in having the abdomen poste- 

 riorly roundedly truncate; form obovate. The specimen in question has 

 the dorsum nearly entirely a deep velvety black; another specimen shows 

 but little black. Morphoparatypes, 2 females, Fort Lee District, N. J., 

 Oct. 10, 1903 ; Fly Creek, N. Y., August 29, 1906. 



This species was described from a single winged male from 

 Guatemala. Subsequently recorded from Riverton, N. J., by Van 

 Duzee, the writer later secured it at Westfield, N. J. The speci- 

 mens from the United States agree with a Mexican in collection 

 Kirkaldy. 



In this species, as in the other, the most obvious character is 

 in the long thin antennas. It cannot be mistaken for any other 

 species, being the largest of our eastern forms, except americana, 

 from which its slim body, long thin antennae and white-spangled 

 hemelytra at once distinguish it. The apterous are more glabrous 

 and much less velvety in appearance than the winged. It is also 

 known from Georgia, taken by Dr. J. C. Bradley. 



Microveiia borealis n. sp. = M. pulchella Bueno et auctt. Am., nee West- 

 wood. 



Head with an impressed line down the middle; antennae slender; not 

 quite as long as head and thorax taken together; joint i stoutest, 3 slen- 

 derest, 2 and 4 nearly equal in thickness, the last fusiform; joint 2 shorter 

 than I, which is subequal to 3 and shorter than 4, the longest; a white 

 line next the eyes. Pronotum as long as broad, with a distinct collum, 

 rounded behind, humeral angles prominent, tumid. Both head and thorax 

 velvety black, except for the silvery stripe next the eyes in the former. 

 Eyes round, diameter half the distance between them. Hemelytra as wide 

 as abdomen, entirely membranous ; nervures prominent, black, cells gray 

 except apical which is white. Femora slightly stouter than the tibiae, legs 

 pilose, posterior tibiae curved, bases of femora lighter in color. Genital 

 segment prominent. Fusiform in shape. 



Long., 1.6 ipm. ; lat., .7 mm. at humeri. 



Type, winged male, taken at Cranford, N. J., on the Rahway River, 

 August 8, 1904. 



Winged female: Differs from the male principally in the broader form, 

 sides of abdomen subparallel and more or less curving; hemelytra do not 

 quite cover connexivum ; posterior tibiae straight. 



Long., 2 mm. ; lat, .8 mm. 



Allotype, winged female, Staten Island, N. Y., August 19, 1905. 



